Enabling quality of urban spaces in Cairo’s new suburban settlements: a community character approach for New Cairo, Egypt

Abstract A global concern claims that activities and functions that once filled traditional public spaces are privatized being less and less oriented to the public. In Cairo’s new settlements, public spaces don’t seem to contribute to its public life. Each community’s most valuable assets are the on...

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Autores principales:	Sally M. Murshed, Ahmed M. Ouf, Abbas F. Zafarany
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Publicado:	SpringerOpen 2021
Materias:	Community character Public places Cairo’s new suburban settlements Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:97cedca4903644a08c1538b6d994502d2021-11-21T12:14:55ZEnabling quality of urban spaces in Cairo’s new suburban settlements: a community character approach for New Cairo, Egypt10.1186/s44147-021-00026-81110-19032536-9512https://doaj.org/article/97cedca4903644a08c1538b6d994502d2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s44147-021-00026-8https://doaj.org/toc/1110-1903https://doaj.org/toc/2536-9512Abstract A global concern claims that activities and functions that once filled traditional public spaces are privatized being less and less oriented to the public. In Cairo’s new settlements, public spaces don’t seem to contribute to its public life. Each community’s most valuable assets are the ones they already have; thus, urbanisms advocate the role of retaining traditional street patterns, vistas, and landscape of a community’s distinct character. The research aim is to identify design attributes to be added to the literature in terms of designing public spaces for the specific cultural context of Cairo, Egypt, and its new suburban settlements. The methodology then follows a comparative analysis study to reach the desired objectives of buildings a community character approach. In an exploratory method, two case studies of public spaces in Cairo are chosen following a purposive selection most relevant to the study. The target is to choose two cases in proximity for users to be familiar with the two of them and enable a reliable comparison. It then conducts a survey that involves the user’s evaluation of their public spaces in correlation to their needs. Jan Gehl’s twelve criteria are adopted by this paper’s field investigation for the assessment of public spaces’ quality. Findings of the study include an elaboration on Jan Gehl’s twelve criteria either by highlighting the importance of existing aspects or the addition of further criteria that showed value to public space quality and their users. The findings provide guidelines that help in designing quality public spaces in Cairo’s new settlements. The added value from this study is in identifying a set of factors or attributes that consider users’ needs for a given cultural context.Sally M. MurshedAhmed M. OufAbbas F. ZafaranySpringerOpenarticleCommunity characterPublic placesCairo’s new suburban settlementsEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040ENJournal of Engineering and Applied Science, Vol 68, Iss 1, Pp 1-24 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Community character Public places Cairo’s new suburban settlements Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Sally M. Murshed Ahmed M. Ouf Abbas F. Zafarany Enabling quality of urban spaces in Cairo’s new suburban settlements: a community character approach for New Cairo, Egypt
description	Abstract A global concern claims that activities and functions that once filled traditional public spaces are privatized being less and less oriented to the public. In Cairo’s new settlements, public spaces don’t seem to contribute to its public life. Each community’s most valuable assets are the ones they already have; thus, urbanisms advocate the role of retaining traditional street patterns, vistas, and landscape of a community’s distinct character. The research aim is to identify design attributes to be added to the literature in terms of designing public spaces for the specific cultural context of Cairo, Egypt, and its new suburban settlements. The methodology then follows a comparative analysis study to reach the desired objectives of buildings a community character approach. In an exploratory method, two case studies of public spaces in Cairo are chosen following a purposive selection most relevant to the study. The target is to choose two cases in proximity for users to be familiar with the two of them and enable a reliable comparison. It then conducts a survey that involves the user’s evaluation of their public spaces in correlation to their needs. Jan Gehl’s twelve criteria are adopted by this paper’s field investigation for the assessment of public spaces’ quality. Findings of the study include an elaboration on Jan Gehl’s twelve criteria either by highlighting the importance of existing aspects or the addition of further criteria that showed value to public space quality and their users. The findings provide guidelines that help in designing quality public spaces in Cairo’s new settlements. The added value from this study is in identifying a set of factors or attributes that consider users’ needs for a given cultural context.
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title	Enabling quality of urban spaces in Cairo’s new suburban settlements: a community character approach for New Cairo, Egypt
title_short	Enabling quality of urban spaces in Cairo’s new suburban settlements: a community character approach for New Cairo, Egypt
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Enabling quality of urban spaces in Cairo’s new suburban settlements: a community character approach for New Cairo, Egypt

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