| yemen-shibam-ThesigerPhoto[856×490] middle lands' of Wadi Hadramawt. Its site is the best strategic situation in the whole area, at a point where the wadi narrows, and yet with an extensive hinterland of fertile side valleys. Publishing origin | |
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| site_192.jpg[95×125] Brief Description Surrounded by a fortified wall, the 16th-century city of Shibam is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle Publishing origin | |
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| 218674-69309.jpg[210×210] Rise residential tower in Singapore; the Netherlands embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the rehabilitation of the Walled City in Nicosia in Cyprus; and a school in Rudrapur in Bangladesh. View Larger Image In Yemen, Shibam, with its 500-year-old multi-storey mud buildings, was becoming a ghost town. But a project that restored houses and modernized sewage has helped to keep it Publishing origin | |
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