Kond
On the same subject of land being taken for real estate development without appropiate compensation, photos from Kond are now online. For those of you that don’t know, Kond is one of the last remaining parts of old Yerevan remaining and is also earmarked for development.
While there are those that consider that Kond should be redeveloped with its historical significance preserved, the main issue is that if residents are to be evicted that they receive compensation enough to move into new apartments. Incidentally, Kond and the issues at hand remind me very much of what seems to be happening in Azerbaijan. See Rena Effendi’s work on Mahalla in Baku here.
The photos of Kond accompanied by an article from Hetq Online can be found here.
