Archinect - News2024-05-02T19:26:20-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/107635330/the-british-countryside-family-who-are-designing-entire-cities-in-iraq
The British countryside family who are designing entire cities in Iraq Alexander Walter2014-08-28T13:38:00-04:00>2014-09-03T19:13:21-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c3/c3185589171dfa72c8e7c90ece3a5111?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>“The cities we’re working on were neglected by Saddam Hussein, so they have little basic infrastructure,” says Elliot Hartley, 36, a director of Garsdale Design. But why can’t Iraqis redesign their own cities? “There has been a massive brain drain of professionals from Iraq over the years, and a lack of investment in local government planning departments, which means that the skills aren’t there – yet,” [...].
More improbably yet, only one member of the family firm [...] has set foot in Iraq.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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