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20060321c_CairoApartmentBlocks
    After our driver and our guide Heidi met us at the hotel, we drove south through Cairo toward Memphis. This photo shows ubiquitous Cairo mass-built apartment architecture: pour floors, supports, and stairs in concrete, fill in the walls with brick, and put in some nice windowframes/shutters (sometimes extravagantly nice). Then keep building up after people move in on the lower floors. You can see this at the far left and also at the rear of the center building. Very few of Cairo's >16 million inhabitants live in an actual house, and there wouldn't be room for everyone if they tried.

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