"[…] buildings are alive with the memories of people [they] tell the story of passion; rivalries and conspiracies, alliances and frauds, loyalty and treason, majesty and baseness [...] they are alive in yet another way. Like people, they age and suffer, grow weak, and they can be sick, poisoned by contaminated groundwater and polluted air. They die, turned into powder by disease or smashed by the unstoppable growth of the modern metropolis of concrete and steel"

(Extract from: The living stores of Cairo - Jarostaw Dobrowolski)