Urban planning and digital governance specialist
Dr. Amir Duhair is a researcher and expert in urban transformation, digital planning tools, and sustainable development strategies in cities of the Global South. His academic contributions focus on integrating smart technologies into urban policies and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of governance, innovation, and spatial justice.
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Architectural images no longer merely represent buildings; they increasingly shape how architecture is conceived, judged, and circulated. This essay asks whether form has begun to follow the image, and what that shift means for function, meaning, human experience, and architectural criticism.
Amir Duhair
Trust grows when people can point and say: “That is my building. That is my lane. Those are our names.”
Amir Duhair
And then there is London, a city where memory feels stitched into the very cobblestones. There, I often found myself wandering through streets where Victorian facades stand proudly beside modern glass towers, a living testament to the city’s ability to carry its past with it into every new chapter. I once paused in front of the Cenotaph, not during any official ceremony but on an ordinary day, and still felt a weight of solemnity, a reminder that the past is never far from our daily lives.
Amir Duhair
If we teach the system on day one that unsorted dumping is acceptable, that weighbridges can be bypassed, that dust is the neighborhood’s problem, we will spend the next five years unlearning our own curriculum.
Amir Duhair
An op-ed reframing Gaza’s reconstruction through spatial justice and sustainable regional planning—from debris and tenure to resilient housing and infrastructure.
Amir Duhair
