In the science fiction film ‘Men in Black’, secret agents erase people’s recent memories with a supernatural device. It seems we have similar men in Kuwait, but they wear black bishts and carry much more powerful devices. Kuwaiti ‘Men in Bisht’ erase the memory of generations and an entire country spanning years in an instant….
Category: Urban Planning
State Properties and Retail Sales
Pricing state properties at open market rates and competing with individual property owners has led to distortions in the real estate sector and negative consequences for the economy and society.
Houses without Tranquility, Neighbors without Neighborliness
Kuwaiti house designs, and modern neighborhoods by extension, lack some important qualities and elements of natural human habitation and urban settlements.
Private Housing Prices and Freedom of Action vs. Freedom of Control
The government alone has the “freedom” to set regulations for the real estate sector, and no one can prevent it
Spatiotemporal Land Use in Kuwait
Urban expansion isn’t just about building government residential care cities; it should be organic and continuous. What’s happening in Kuwait has nothing to do with urban expansion.




