By Ali Al Yousifi
But would that be a bad thing? What if the next sandstorm did take all our buildings with it, would we rebuild our city better? Are we proud of what we already built? Do we want a chance to start over? If this idea of completely rebuilding a functioning city seems strange, it shouldn’t! Because Kuwait already did that in the 50s and 60s. We completely destroyed our mud city and built a concrete city.
About a month ago, Kuwait came under
a heavy sandstorm. Just like any other sandstorm, visibility dramatically
decreased, so much so that the tops of skyscrapers started to fade into blank
greyness. Looking across Kuwait City revealed a view with buildings ominously disappearing
into the dust.
It was as if the dust was slowly
erasing our urban landscape. I felt that I might wake up the next day and find that
Kuwait City’s skyscrapers have vanished into thin air; maybe all I’ll find is a
desert, a blank slate that we’ll have to rebuild all over again.
But would that be a bad thing? What if the next sandstorm did take all our buildings with it, would we rebuild our city better? Are we proud of what we already built? Do we want a chance to start over? If this idea of completely rebuilding a functioning city seems strange, it shouldn’t! Because Kuwait already did that in the 50s and 60s. We completely destroyed our mud city and built a concrete city.
Can we do that again? Do we want to?
احياناً كثيرة أجدها فكرة رائعة على أن تبقيها روعتها في خانة الأفكار فقط!
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