Article in a Journal by Abeer Elshater
Place Management and Development , 2024
Purpose-This paper aims to investigate the utilisation of street food to redefine place managemen... more Purpose-This paper aims to investigate the utilisation of street food to redefine place management in public spaces in Egypt. The study examines the spatiotemporal effects of this approach, considering the preferences of both vendors and consumers alongside contextual design factors. Design/methodology/approach-In this study, conducted in Cairo, Egypt, a spatial ethnographic approach was used to delve into the process of place management in areas hosting street food activities. Focus group interviews were conducted with a random sample of street food vendors and consumers. Findings-The results of this case study confirm the significant impact of street food on its surroundings, emphasising the importance of the people-place relationship. Insights from group interviews shed light on essential questions regarding the timing, location and drivers of spatiotemporal effects around food activity areas, as well as the entities controlling these effects and their mechanisms. The findings underscore the necessity of harmoniously balancing the needs of vendors and consumers without detrimentally affecting the context. Practical implications-The proactive insights gleaned from this study hold potential for replication in other cities, offering valuable insights into the roles and specialisations of actors involved in managing street food places. However, achieving a more comprehensive understanding of stereotypes and underlying themes is imperative. Originality/value-This study contributes to filling a research gap by exploring strategies to integrate vendors' and consumers' preferences and designs into specific contexts. It provides proactive and preventive solutions to mitigate adverse spatiotemporal effects of street food activities within the studied context.
Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2024
This paper reviews how excessive lighting in historical sites can negatively affect the enjoyment... more This paper reviews how excessive lighting in historical sites can negatively affect the enjoyment of social gatherings. Because light pollution has the potential to affect socialization negatively, we need the appropriate tools to handle these effects. As part of this research, three techniques were used to analyze these effects: a bibliographical examination of relevant concepts, field measurements of illumination levels at historical sites in Cairo, Egypt, as well as questionnaires sent out to users around the world to determine what influences their perceptions of historical sites at night. Based on the results of a systematic review, we developed the concept of toolkits for creating a lively ambiance for evening events. Furthermore, based on the spatial measurements made in the case study, it was determined that the challenge of visual pollution hinders creating a vibrant atmosphere at historical sites. An online survey that investigated the factors influencing the enjoyment of historical sites at night around the world found that positioning the lighting fixtures and illumination is one of the most critical factors. The results of the current study confirm that the urban form of the context provides a pleasant visual and perceptual experience at night as well. The findings of this study have led to three design considerations that can help urban planners and designers when it comes to implementing lighting in public spaces. As a result of these considerations, the historical site in the case study, Al-Hussein Square, Cairo, presents a livelier ambiance at night; hence they can be used by urban designers to enhance the ambiance in similar settings to the present case study. This toolkit provides valuable insights into how local authorities and citizens can work together to reduce lighting pollution by examining the causes of the pollution.
International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2020
Crowding in public places and the subsequent degradation of the high quality of urban atmospheres... more Crowding in public places and the subsequent degradation of the high quality of urban atmospheres leads to an increase in people's aggressive attitudes. The consequences of these three variables on people's dissatisfaction have become apparent and can be monitored through the following five phenomena of urban atmospheres: aesthetic, affective, attributes, architectural quality, and behavioural attitudes. The five abovementioned phenomena, together with nine situations that arise from the impacts of the urban atmospheres, help to create an integrated conceptual framework. By using this framework, this paper aims to present an anti-crowding action plan in public places based on revelations of people's moods, attitudes, and satisfaction. This article classifies descriptive and exploratory studies, which depend on evidence-based practice. It searches in theoretical literature thoroughly, testing parameters of reality, to provide the urban designer with guidelines related to the components which affect crowding. Online surveys between experts from different cities around the world reveal the existence and extent of this conflict in sixteen global cities. The key finding was that urban atmospheres as a tool for decreasing feelings of dissatisfaction due to crowding that enhances people's satisfaction. The results also show that this enhancement is based on atmospheric urban design dimensions. Ultimately, this article concludes with an action plan and four lessons learned, help in providing a proper human mood in public places for reducing negative attitudes relating to atmosphere and crowding. Further studies should focus on the real cooperation between the urban designer and experts in other disciplines.
International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) raises an essential debate about implementing the ideas and insights of sm... more Coronavirus (COVID-19) raises an essential debate about implementing the ideas and insights of smart technology in the fields of urban planning and design. This commentary sheds light on considerations and challenges in the area of knowledge in these fields as consequences of the recent pandemic. The concluded remarks cover issues with a specific focus on accelerating the digital transformation in education and a typo-morphological analysis that ends with revisiting the norms and standards of social distancing. Besides, this commentary recommends research directions to follow after the pandemic recedes, tackling the multidisciplinarity between fields of specialisation.
Engineering Research Journal - Faculty of Engineering (Shoubra)
Urban planning and design research reveal the significance of virtual reality (VR) as a visualiza... more Urban planning and design research reveal the significance of virtual reality (VR) as a visualization tool in exploring user experience. This article used two public spaces of two Egyptian universities as a case study on the efficiency of VR in understanding user experiences. We randomly examine the urban studies literature to identify the essential elements that should be conveyed. Using a conventional method and a VR headset, 150 participants viewed the design and answered a questionnaire. From the descriptive and analytical analysis of the results, the findings reflect the participants' perspective when comparing the virtual reality method with the traditional way. The results also demonstrate that VR improves understanding of users' experiences while moving through urban forms. The concluding remarks shed light on how the VR tool can be used to understand urban planning and designs.
THE CONVERSATION, 2023
During the course of wars, the infrastructure of cities faces destruction. Fighting, regardless o... more During the course of wars, the infrastructure of cities faces destruction. Fighting, regardless of its intentions, destroys roads, bridges, commercial and residential buildings, as well as the architecture they embody. Throughout history and around the globe, calls to stop wars have focused on the value of people’s lives. In recent decades, there has been a lot of attention paid to protecting cultural heritage.However, there has been little consideration for the value of public places and people’s memories of these spaces. Buildings – such as residential and commercial structures, schools and hospitals – are of ten destroyed in the chaos of conflict, leaving behind psychological trauma that can last for generations. In a recent paper, we set out why cities and their buildings need to be protected. This infrastructure, unique or not, represents people’s history, culture and social fabric. In our paper, we coined the term “wartime urbanism” to describe what we believe needs to be done to preserve a city’s distinctive characteristics in times of conflict.
Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, 2021
This study employed applied thematic analysis (ATA) and importance-performance analysis (IPA) to ... more This study employed applied thematic analysis (ATA) and importance-performance analysis (IPA) to measure visitor satisfaction in city streets. Forty-two elements that significantly influence visitors’ responses to streets and environments were included in five groups characterised by circumstances, characteristics, and indicators. Ibrahim Al-Lakani Street’s atmosphere satisfaction was measured by using coherent research methods. This investigation can assist designers in developing the morphological and social composition necessary to restore a street’s atmosphere and visitor satisfaction. This study contributes to the literature in two ways. First, it examines the relationships between street characteristics and visitor satisfaction in city streets regarding situations, atmospheres and social characteristics that shape these streets. Second, this study integrates ATA and IPA to create a tool for evaluating the significance, performance, and satisfaction of street situations, socio-...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2024
This paper revisits the planning and design factors of "pedestrianized" and "walkable" urban stre... more This paper revisits the planning and design factors of "pedestrianized" and "walkable" urban streets to encourage physical activity, focusing on their prioritization according to public health and smart growth. The aim is to create a conceptual framework for urban planners and designers to encourage walking and reduce metabolic syndrome (MetS) risks. Through a scoping review, the study found that while pedestrianized and walkable streets share many planning and design factors, they have different objectives. The study explores how urban planning and design can reduce MetS risk among middle-class individuals using online video storytelling for 30 participants in three districts of Cairo, Egypt: El Zamalek, Old Cairo, and Heliopolis. It identifies three factors to address MetS symptoms for middle-class individuals: strategic, design-oriented, and technical. Practitioners and policymakers can use this framework to evaluate the impact of their work. This study is particularly relevant for cities in the Global South that are facing similar challenges.
Urban Scince, 2024
Pedestrianization is a significant discourse focus within urban planning and design research. How... more Pedestrianization is a significant discourse focus within urban planning and design research. However, the need for more clarity from the inconsistent use of near-synonym concepts or terms necessitates attention. This review article addresses this issue through a comprehensive analysis of synonym proliferation in pedestrian research, culminating in developing a robust “near synonymous toolkit” and “synonym selection framework”. Employing a linear snowball sampling technique, numerical analysis, and a qualitative content analysis-based summative approach, we examined sixteen peer-reviewed articles from 11 scientific journals. Through systematic classification based on consistency and variability, the summative review identifies three primary groups of near synonyms: dominant and widely utilized conceptual or terminological near synonymy in pedestrianization in the urban planning and design literature, near synonyms directly associated with a pedestrian, pedestrianize, and those indirectly linked to another conceptual or terminological synonymy. Further analysis delves into the nature of near-synonym concepts or terms, revealing three discernible patterns: the use of distinct, precise concepts or terms with near-synonym meanings, similar concepts or terms conveying divergent meanings, and the juxtaposition of unrelated vocabulary lacking semantic resemblance. These insights illuminate semantic relationships within the studied vocabulary, underscoring the importance of addressing inconsistency for clarity, precision, and coherence in scientific discourse. By offering practical guidance through the proposed framework, this study empowers academic researchers to navigate synonym selection adeptly, thereby enhancing the caliber of scholarly writing in urban planning and design.
Open House International, 2024
Purpose-Several initiatives have taken part in the sustainability assessment tools, especially on... more Purpose-Several initiatives have taken part in the sustainability assessment tools, especially on the neighbourhood scale. These tools have been developed as neighbourhood sustainability assessment tools (NSATs) in global and local settings. Despite the widespread use of NSATs over the last two decades, research on NSATs in Global South cities is currently limited. This review article synthesizes literature themes and provides research priorities for NSATs. Design/methodology/approach-This paper presents a systematic review of 48 research articles on NSATs in cities of the Global South, conducted and reported using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. A thematic synthesis of 18 articles was reviewed using content analysis to provide a thematic classification and research priorities that outline approaches and actions for implementation. Findings-The results revealed five themes of NSATs for research tackling cities in the Global South, with one dominant theme related to case study-based frameworks and tools. The findings indicate a high level of affiliation contribution and research content focus within the Asian continent compared to the African continent and MENA region. Originality/value-This study contributes to the bibliometric analysis of where the current body of research stands in NSATs. The added value highlights research priorities based on themes, spatial regions and tools.
Sustainability , 2024
The “x-minute city” concept gained attention within the global urban discourse on post-pandemic c... more The “x-minute city” concept gained attention within the global urban discourse on post-pandemic cities. Recently, numerous cities have shifted their attention from considering the x-minute city merely as a theoretical concept to one with practical applicability, rediscovering the proximity dimension to be integrated into urban policies and plans. Consequently, a requirement emerged to develop comprehensive approaches for monitoring and assessing this proximity. In this perspective, this article seeks to answer two main questions: What are approaches utilized in the literature to measure proximity within the context of “x-minute cities”? How could these measurement models accurately reflect real-world scenarios? The aim is to identify the models and variables required for measuring proximity within the framework of x-minute cities. A review of 38 peer-reviewed articles following the PRISMA statement was performed by searching the Web of Science database for publications from 2020 to 2023. Our results clarified the essential components of the measurement models and presented recommendations for more comprehensive assessments. The findings highlight the variable deficiencies that affect proximity measurement ap-proaches. The recommendations hold the potential to enhance measurement models, contributing to the development of urban communities that are more accessible and interconnected.
Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2020
Many countries are now cautiously seeking to return to relatively normal lifestyles while maintai... more Many countries are now cautiously seeking to return to relatively normal lifestyles while maintaining essential preventive measures. Although individual nations' reopening policies have varied widely, depending on their assessment of the outbreak, a key common policy has been maintenance of social distancing. Social distancing helps to prevent the transmission of COVID-19, yet it is also difficult to implement in urban spaces. Compact cities, where large numbers of pedestrians and cyclists are often packed closely together, encounter especially acute challenges. To achieve the more open public spaces essential for social distancing, changes have to occur in design and use of the urban fabric; new design standards permitting flexibility and variability of use need to be formulated, and the use of sidewalks and of other open spaces needs to be reshaped. Designers also need to consider social well-being. How will it be possible to provide cheerful environments for the elderly and those with special needs, as well as child-friendly outdoor spaces, for instance, while also conforming to the new restrictions on social life required by COVID-19? Our inability to enter public places and engage in recreational experiences as we did six months ago has placed urban planners and designers in an unenviable situation. Yet social distancing also offers urban designers an opportunity to reshape the physical environment of cities proactively and fundamentally. Urban planners and designers must still see the city as a place to unite in hope, to gather and communicate, and to cater to people's need for clamour and conviviality. To create such an urban environment, they will need to develop a new paradigm: it will not be sufficient to rely on already existing standards, guidelines, and urban design toolkits. Cities that implement social distancing measures without innovation will not become cities for people. In developing this new paradigm, urban planners and designers must avoid ideas that will create stereotyped repetition and so cause monotony and boredom. The concepts of heterotopias and contradiction will be particularly useful, as these concepts encourage the development of non-stereotypical solutions with alternative potentials, for instance through multiculturalism. Coined by Michel Foucault (1966), the concept of heterotopia involves finding "countersites" to identify where, how, and for whom differences arise and preserve themselves (Saldanha 2008). In public places, such differences will produce surprise and shock to alleviate boredom. Heterotopic urban spaces could be developed if we apply the idea of incomplete design thinking (Sendra 2015); spaces would not be completed so that other groups or individuals could
Architecture and Urbanism: A Smart Outlook, 2020
Urbanisation is a process associated with the global industrial and technological development. Gl... more Urbanisation is a process associated with the global industrial and technological development. Globally, this process causes a continuous change of the land cover and increases the urban areas. Scholars from various disciplines address these changes that affect the global climatic system, microclimate and the environment. Urban heat island (UHI) is considered as one of the climatic change phenomena which are associated with the urbanisation process. This phenomenon increases the air temperature in the urban areas compared by the surrounding rural ones. This makes up for the problem of overlook the local scale analysis of the UHI and focuses on the mesoscale. This paper aims to explore the relationship between the urban structures in residential areas of Cairo and the UHI. The research methods use remote sensing techniques and field monitoring devices to catch the variances in the air temperature. The key finding figured out the importance of considering the configuration of urban patterns in development plans. Future research in studying the phenomenon is needed for addressing the exact effect of each urban morphology parameters on UHI and analysing the spatial and temporal distribution of the phenomenon throughout various periods of the different the seasons.
Sustainability, 2022
This study examines worker satisfaction vis-à-vis outdoor places in terms of their environmental ... more This study examines worker satisfaction vis-à-vis outdoor places in terms of their environmental and socio-morphological aspects. Numerous studies have considered decent work as the eighth goal of sustainable development. However, it is worth investigating outdoor workers’ satisfaction with a view to the practical design of the surrounding context that supports their work in outdoor places. Using bibliometric analysis, this study investigates possible approaches toward providing decent work in a public place in Cairo as a case study, focusing on outdoor workers’ satisfaction. In the bibliometric analysis, this study used query settings in the Scimago database to search for manuscripts published in the previous five years. The result yielded 195 manuscripts that were filtered down to 50 manuscripts and then grouped using VOSviewr Software. Environmental noise and heat assessment analyses were performed using noise level measurements, remote sensing, and the Grasshopper platform. Furt...
Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development
This chapter focuses on the theory of knowledge-based urban design as a tool for intellectual lit... more This chapter focuses on the theory of knowledge-based urban design as a tool for intellectual literacy in architecture schools. It explores the extent of the current knowledge effects in the educational process by knowing the experience gained by the students during the current learning plans, as opposed to what the urban designer should know. The dilemma is what could happen if the experts in the relevant disciplines of urban design do not accept such a paradigm shift or even recognize that there is intellectual illiteracy in a particular discipline and closely relevant fields by discussing some features of intellectual illiteracy in the academe of some developing countries. These features could provide a ground for accepting this theory. Furthermore, the chapter helps to present what can reduce the alleged intellectual illiteracy. In conclusion, this chapter provides an experimental attempt to explore the relationship between illiteracy of thought and mental ability among professi...
City, Territory and Architecture
Hyper-diversity in old communities should be rehabilitated to address various man-made changes th... more Hyper-diversity in old communities should be rehabilitated to address various man-made changes that threaten sustainability and viability at night. This study elucidates this argument by reviewing and synthesising theoretical and empirical evidence about urban governance support regarding the participation of neighbourhood residents to improve or eliminate nightlife. The method is based on a systematic review, direct observation and interview with random samples of residents, workers and visitors in commercial and recreational places. This study criticises changes in the public space of the Al-Hussein Mosque, which led to changes in urban forms and affected the nightlife in Old Cairo. However, it asserts that the hyper-diversity of activities in public spaces because of the lack of urban governance controls should consider changes in terms of the participation of vulnerable groups in nightlife. A new conceptual framework for interpreting stakeholders’ positive and negative responses...
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning
This editorial discusses smart cities and liveable cities in urban planning and design. Two urban... more This editorial discusses smart cities and liveable cities in urban planning and design. Two urban scales of practices are involved in this work. First, the urban plans call for economic competitiveness and information technology development. The second is urban forms which involve the adaptation of placemaking through liveability and quality of life. Measuring individual satisfaction with all physical elements aims at a good standard of living and focuses on physical and non-physical elements that can be measured. What makes urban architecture good can be determined by examining how many engineering systems have been applied. Does this editor two questions: Can urban planners and designers design smart cities keeping urban form in mind? Are smart cities merely concerned with plans and strategies? Smart Cities Our interest in the topic of smart cities, as both city developers and residents, was piqued by the discussion about the inevitability of transforming existing and new cities into smart cities. When we learn more about what smart cities are from theorists' descriptions, this interest turns into bewilderment and uncertainty. This concept is bewildering partly because of its relationship with other concepts emerging around the same time, such as competitive, liveable, and sustainable cities. Regarding uncertainty, it was recognised at the practice levels. The question turned now to: is this concept related to architecture, city planning, urban planning or urban design? And, at the scale of urban form, is it possible to design a smart city? To answer these two questions, some definitions of the smart city were consulted, which, in the opinion of many theorists, are still ambiguous and need to be clarified. In contrast, others have settled on a definition.
City, Territory and Architecture
There is little research-based evidence regarding the similarities and differences in urban plans... more There is little research-based evidence regarding the similarities and differences in urban plans and urban forms, regarding urban planning and design, between planned capital cities in Africa and Asia. In recognition of the establishment of planned capital cities on these continents, this article limited its case studies to six planned capital cities of the Global South, in the post-independence and post-crisis period. By using bibliometric analysis, snowballing technique, and content analysis approaches, this study determines data sources, including books, journals, city reports, and internet blogs. The results show that these planned capital cities are similar in their urban plans: geographical, socio-cultural and demographic dimensions (location, size, and population densities), historical context of societies, and their goals and aspirations. Meanwhile, urban forms have similarities and differences based on paradigms, organization and spatial formation, spatial arrangement of a...
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning
In some scientific journals, researchers have experienced 'desk rejection' of their manuscripts w... more In some scientific journals, researchers have experienced 'desk rejection' of their manuscripts without them having been sent out for review. Although the research offered an innovative idea and good writing style, the decision was to 'reject and resubmit.' These two cases explain that the study lacked visionary research design, including unique methods and techniques. For decades, research design has played an extremely vital role in helping publish theoretical, applied and experimental research quickly. In the past several decades, there has been increasing demand to focus on research design, innovation and diversification in the use of research methods and techniques which utilize new technology, particularly in the field of urban planning and design. Urban planning and design processes involve collaboration between higher urban authorities and lower level participants. These processes cover a broad spectrum across a vast urban scale, from urban plans and forms, to stages of framing and enforcement of urban policy. No matter the process, researchers are challenged in the process of establishing, identifying, solving problems in, finding gaps in the literature for, determining aims and objectives of, proving significance of, making contributions through and pointing to the advantages of their research. Furthermore, their research should identify limitations, assumptions, episodic and inductive reasonings and future intentions. This approach proposes urban guidelines, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and an urban toolkit representing the logical end of this scientific research process. 1 Cite this article Elshater A, Abusaada H and AlWaer H (2023) Editorial: In urban planning and design, strengthening research design is crucial.
Open House International , 2023
Purpose-The purpose of this article is to revisit the concepts of city singularity and identity, ... more Purpose-The purpose of this article is to revisit the concepts of city singularity and identity, as well as the concept's related topics (i.e. place identity, place attachment and place dependence). The aim is to investigate the impact of development projects on people's preferences for old and contemporary features in modern cities. The evidence for this can be seen mainly at historical sites such as Heliopolis in Cairo, Egypt. Design/methodology/approach-The authors investigated how development projects affect place identity and city singularity through a three-step process. As a first step, an online questionnaire was administered to experts to assess the characteristics that shape the identity of local districts. In the second and third steps, interviews were conducted, followed by online surveys directed at Heliopolis residents and non-residents. The weight of people's preferences was determined using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). Findings-The results highlighted people's preferences to consider when developing projects at historical sites. Based on these preferences, the authors' concluded remarks provide insight into some considerations for developing projects in historic places. Originality/value-The added value here is surveying people's preferences about development projects in historical places. The physical and social components interplay contributes to city identity and singularity. Based on these preferences, this investigation offers valuable insights into enhancing historical site development.
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هو كتاب يستعرض كيف أن جو المدينة قد شكل جوهر العِمارة والعُمران وبعدها الخامس لبناء التفرد في المستقرات الجديدة. فالانفراد والأجواء بمثابة الوسطاء لتوليد قوة التجربة البشرية في المدينة. ويعرض هذا العمل القصة غير المروية حول التصميم الحضري فى المدن الجديدة حسب جوهر الانفراد. فمحاولات الانفراد على اختلاف أنماطها هي للتمظهُر بشكل مُتمايز عن الـ "نحن." والمعنى أنه سوف يكون ثمة تمييزًا في مرحلة ما بعد الانفراد بين مدينةٍ والمدن الأخرى، ليس فحسب على أساس البنية الكلية لشكل وتشكيل المدينة، وإنما من خلال التفريق بين أفكار التصميم في مستوى خلق المدينة والمعاني الخبيئة في مستوى الناس في المجال العام. يتضمن هذا العمل ثلاثة استفسارات يتناول الأول 'لماذا' لم تعد رؤى المدينة الجديدة تفعل في الوعي الجمعي لناس المدينة ما كانت تحققه المدن التقليدية؟ ويتناولان الثاني والثالث على التوالي 'ما' الذي جعل من غياب الانفراد حالة مُهيمنة؟ و'كيف' يمكن معالجة هذا الغياب بل وجعل المدن ذات جوهر وطبيعة منفردة؟ تتركز مساهمة هذه الكتاب في تقديم تيار ومفاهيم تصميم حضري جديدة، وبالاستناد إليها يمكن اقتراح نهج "مدينة عابرة النماذج الفكرية لخلق مدن جديدة تتمتع بالانفراد.
The book asks what it means to manage the urban chaos in cities of hardship. Individual or group displacements (internally displaced person) are no only made up of people from the rural areas but also from inside the cities themselves; these are who live in informal human settlements, traditional sectors that are underdeveloped economically and technically, and the marginalised undeveloped areas. All this transformation and contradiction in urban characteristics may be leads to urban chaos. Furthermore, this chaos may also be aa a result of shortcomings in the practice of architects, their education, or the application of city legislation.
The methodology applies to inductive and deductive methods to proof that the problematic issue of this work needs to extend the scope of theoretical and applied research. Furthermore, it needs to activate the transdisciplinarity approach, which collects between several fields of interests and presents a hybrid proposal that synthesises several issues. This work focuses on the process of pathological architectural chaos as a basis to prevent hardships of living by using the guidelines of the professional practice of the art of the city discipline. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the world has been going toward establishing the concept of the urban age. However, cities in some of the developing world—it is hard to determine numbers or the extent of its spreading—have already transformed or are on the way to transformation. Arguably, the change can be monitored by bigness, luxuriousness, beauty, and level of technology versus randomness, disorder, and ugliness that represent the architecture on the other side. Also, it can be followed by the residents in the face of the overwhelming social forces that come from historical heritage, external culture, and ways of life on the other side.
The problematic issue of this book revolves around having executive or supervisory control or authority to deal several terms, such as cities of difference, strangers, and minorities that occupy a broad area of professionals' thinking in scientific disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, the art of the city, and architecture. This book concludes to that most of the current urban architecture is non-compatible with the developed paradigms of architecture; the development plans ignore the contemporary concepts identified of the city, and the interrelationships between daily newcomers to the city and the nature of this city in its per se, which has a unique essence.
Recently, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, there was a definite human crisis that emerged in the Egyptian cities at the level of local urban communities, which reflects on the whole city and the attached ones. The problem seems to be in the transformation of some urban sites in the metropolitan [and small] cities to become dystopian places, regarding the dynamic impact of the anti-utopian people. The concept of anti-utopians stands as an intermediate step between livable cities and dystopian communities through the transformation that occurs due to the lack of strategic plans by the administrators and/or the experts, with a special mention to the plans for poor people. Therefore, from our perspective, there is an urgent need to say that the majority of Egyptian cities should be declared as “domains of humanitarian disasters,” which are caused by human hazards rather than the natural disasters, e.g. earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, whirlwinds, and hurricanes. Thus, the first/headmost city that will announce its failure in the structural and human scene will get the self-respect and world's estimate as well.
Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities focuses on public health and wellbeing, decent work and economic growth, sustainable cities and societies, and climate action. It presents atlases of UHI-based digital techniques and methods of modelling as well as the use of these atlases, mapping, and models in exploring the placemaking problems in the new cities. Covering topics such as artificial intelligence, pedestrian density mapping, and urban heat island mitigation, this premier reference source is a critical resource for architects, city planners, urban planners, city officials, government officials, policymakers, non-profit organizations, politicians, engineers, libraries, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.
Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces analyzes the patterns of transformations of nightlife in public life. The book investigates urban nightlife transformations and the challenge of enhancing the sense of belonging in sensitive areas such as local communities and historical sites. The chapters present new insights to control the chaotic intervention related to the elements of traditional or digital technology, whether from citizens themselves or local authorities. The objective also is to document urban nightlife transformations that enhance the sense of belonging in historical sites. Important topics covered include urban-gamification, digital urban art, urban socio-ecosystems, and reimagining space in the urban nightlife. This book is ideal for urban planners, developers, social scientists, technologists, civil engineers, architects, policymakers, government officials, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in urban nightlife and nightscape and the smart technologies used for transformation.
The International Conference “Architecture & Urbanism… A Smart Outlook” is hosted by the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, engaging renowned international keynote speakers from the fields of architecture and urban planning. As a prime location for solar and wind resources, Egypt would become a hub for hosting and exchanging innovative initiatives.
The conference aims at addressing the challenges of unstoppable urbanization that gravely affect the world’s ecosystems. To become efficiently sustainable and regenerative, buildings and cities need to adopt smart solutions, which are instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. The conference discusses innovations of the built environment while depicting how such practices could transform future buildings and urban areas into places of higher value and quality.
This book of abstracts consists of six tracks, namely: Smart Solutions; Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency; Regenerative Design; Inception and Evolution; Education; and People and Environment.
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Handbook of Research on Digital Research Methods and Architectural Tools in Urban Planning and Design is a critical reference source that comprehensively covers the concepts and processes of more than 20 new methods in both planning and design in the field of architecture and aims to explain the ways for researchers to apply these methods in their works. Pairing innovative approaches alongside traditional research methods, the physical dimensions of traditional and new cities are addressed in addition to the non-physical aspects and applied models that are currently under development in new settlements such as sustainable cities, smart cities, creative cities, and intercultural cities. Featuring a wide range of topics such as built environment, urban morphology, and city information modeling, this book is essential for researchers, academicians, professionals, technology developers, architects, engineers, and policymakers.
1964, academics have approached gentrification as a
haphazard process. From the turn of the twenty-first
century, gentrification is not perceived as a haphazard
process but rather a planned, well-defined and organized
process. It has been recognized that gentrification does not
proceed the same everywhere. While urban neighborhoods
are exposed to gentrification, physical, economic,
social and cultural changes take place. Gentrification can
also proceed reversely that is called as “degentrification.”
There is a common agreement between scholars and
practitioners that gentrification leads to the improvement
of urban life, facilitates urban neighborhoods and reducing
the likelihood of future demolition and provides a practical
solution for deteriorated neighborhoods, but it has also
some negative consequences; the most significant is
displacement. This paper deals with the problem of what
so-called geography of gentrification, which suggests need
to understand the dilemma of how gentrification evolves
and develops within neighborhoods in different cities.
Moreover, this paper explores the application of the
gentrification indicators on Heliopolis district in Cairo in
order to understand the process of gentrification.
This book focuses on five SDGs: poverty (Goal 1), public health and well-being (Goal 3), decent work and economic growth (Goal 8), sustainable cities and societies (Goal 11), and climate action (Goal 13). These goals are associated with the increasing UHI phenomenon that accompanies rapid urbanization, which has changed the way of life of many countries worldwide. Thus, this book aims to reach sustainable cities and societies that do not suffer from poverty and disease due to climatic change and where decent work and social and economic well-being is achieved.
The prime audience includes experts working in architecture, site planning and design, urban planning and design, landscape architecture, sustainable urban design, and environmental design. In addition, the book focuses on researchers, academics, practitioners, and urban governance, developers, and policymakers. Significantly, the target audience can get more insights into using new paradigms, methods, techniques, modellings, and research applications.
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This book also tries to follow a bottom-up design participatory approach instead of the dominant planning paradigms that follow a top-down approach to achieve smart places. Consequently, we seek an approach to explore the way more precise methods develop public places in traditional and historical sites. This approach needs to accept the integration of all types of conventional and digital technology, not only to be smart places but also to investigate the quasi-smart places as a proposed concept. Therefore, a more concise understanding of this approach is required to develop the urban nightlife transformations while enhancing a sense of place and a sense of belonging.
The overall goal of this book is the idea that using the elements of contemporary technology should correspond to the requirements of the common good and citizenship’ rights based on a sense of place and belonging. Citizen’s and local authority interventions are both critical in creating different urban nightlife atmospheres in public places and avoiding the changing impacts of the unstudied interventions of smart public places elements.
This book aims to develop contemporary insights into a comprehensive interpretation of urban ambiance as it relates to the development of cities or to various levels of intervention in extant urban environments. The key objective is to provide a comprehensive theoretical base, which stems from the scholarly understandings of contemporary urban theorists. Premised on empirical and experimental research, the theoretical discourse is coupled with the development of a series of cases, addressing various contexts, which capture the essence of urban ambiance.
The editors firmly believe that developing new debates on urban ambiance, its constituents, attributes, and qualities would enable future urban designers and planners to consider new dimensions for rethinking urban places, the design of which speaks to human perceptions and feelings while enhancing the effective use of these places. Authors are invited to contribute to a multitude of topics that advance the understanding of urban ambiance while underscoring ideas related to the introduction of smart technologies in public places.
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The International Conference “Architecture, Urbanism… A Smart Outlook” is hosted by the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, engaging renowned international keynote speakers from the fields of architecture and urban planning. As a prime location for solar and wind resources, Egypt would become a hub for hosting and exchanging on innovative initiatives.
The conference aims at addressing the challenges of unstoppable urbanization that gravely affect the world’s ecosystems. To become efficiently sustainable and regenerative, buildings and cities need to adopt smart solutions, which are instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. The conference discusses innovations of the built environment, while depicting how such practices could transform future buildings and urban areas into places of higher value and quality.
Multi-disciplinary researchers, academics, as well as practitioners, are invited to share ideas, innovations and experiences. The conference is committed to showcasing and publishing researches and practical exemplars from established and emerging academics and professionals around the world.
The paper tackles how educators can alter the actual appraisal process to match the intended learning outcomes. It revolves around the education process in the field of Urban Planning and Design module and its relationship with professional practice. It focuses on the urban design courses through the assessment process. The manuscript follows an assumption: "if the programs and courses of urban planning and design support the learning process in a conversational way, starting from the assessment process, through putting their vision of educating process, this can come over the problematic of planned graduate outcome". There are two approaches used to test the assumption; an analytically inductive to understand the urban design concepts and the intended outcomes and a descriptive analysis to the visualize applying this issue in the urban design assessment process by using questionnaires techniques/tool. The contribution comes from discussing the ongoing debate about the learning impact on the future of urban practice, so it was beneficial to put forward an alternative approach for a methodology to the current system problems.
The current research tries to combine the different approaches to overcome the problem of land waste, whether these lands be small parcels or significant areas in the city. The cases investigated in Cairo show the gap between architecture and urban design in Egypt. The present research performs an ex-post facto analysis and extent of the analytical investigation into the case study. The work applies a unitary approach to understanding and researching the phenomenology of lost spaces and resettlement plans. Its contribution is a different perspective on sustainable resource use, specifically, that land should be reserved for efficient uses.
The paper tackles how educators can alter the actual appraisal process to match the intended learning outcomes. It revolves around the education process in the field of Urban Planning and Design module and its relationship with professional practice. It focuses on the urban design courses through the assessment process. The manuscript follows an assumption: "if the programs and courses of urban planning and design support the learning process in a conversational way, starting from the assessment process, through putting their vision of educating process, this can come over the problematic of planned graduate outcome". There are two approaches used to test the assumption; an analytically inductive to understand the urban design concepts and the intended outcomes and a descriptive analysis to the visualize applying this issue in the urban design assessment process by using questionnaires techniques/tool. The contribution comes from discussing the ongoing debate about the learning impact on the future of urban practice, so it was beneficial to put forward an alternative approach for a methodology to the current system problems.
This paper offers an elaborated introduction to the research justification; visual chaos. It focuses on the trend of urban visualization appropriateness toward a good city form in the urban sprawl in Cairo, Egypt. It concentrates on the interactions between visual perception and Everyday Urbanism as a new approach in developing countries. It emphasizes the interactions between geometry and meaning in the art of the city as tool to analysis visual context in Cairo.