Liam Levitz
Aleppo Skyline
Taken from the citadel that sits above Aleppo city centre.
One of the hardest things for me to adapt to was the physical environment of the cities. Outwith the astonishing, biblical era streets that lay at the heart of Aleppo and Damascus was a seemingly unplanned, uncared for warren of high rise blocks and dusty apartments. There was sadly very little positive to say about these environments. They were congested, noise, dirty and seemed to serve only to magnify the heat by giving you nowhere to hide.
Damascus and Aleppo both vie to be the BIGGEST Syrian city, and thus, one of the biggest in the middle east but this competitiveness and some of then institutional issues that affect the governance of these countries meant that this led to an unfettered, and some would say, corrupt urban sprawl that did little in the way of edification.
Aleppo Skyline
Taken from the citadel that sits above Aleppo city centre.
One of the hardest things for me to adapt to was the physical environment of the cities. Outwith the astonishing, biblical era streets that lay at the heart of Aleppo and Damascus was a seemingly unplanned, uncared for warren of high rise blocks and dusty apartments. There was sadly very little positive to say about these environments. They were congested, noise, dirty and seemed to serve only to magnify the heat by giving you nowhere to hide.
Damascus and Aleppo both vie to be the BIGGEST Syrian city, and thus, one of the biggest in the middle east but this competitiveness and some of then institutional issues that affect the governance of these countries meant that this led to an unfettered, and some would say, corrupt urban sprawl that did little in the way of edification.