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Revitalizing City Districts

Transformation Partnership for Urban Design and Architecture in Historic City Districts

  • Gathers up-dated and new studies on challenges of urban development especially in Egyptian Cities

  • Provides arguments against the official Egyptian project to construct the new "Cairo Capital"

  • Presents a first integrated research endeavor in this field in Egypt

  • Contains comparisons and best practice examples from other cities relevant for Egypt

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Urban Heritage Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Port Area Revitalization Wave and the Shores of the MENA Region

      • Hebatalla Abouelfadl, Mohamed A. ElGamal
      Pages 53-62
    3. Revitalization of Old Cairo

      • Christoph Wessling
      Pages 63-73

About this book

This book explores the consequences of change in the urban form, the amalgam of the urban space and buildings and on the processes leading to planning and design. Urban form and its fabric result from a multitude of individual interests, ideas and decisions which in turn result in specific and locally diverse spatial arrangements. These processes which are shaping our built environment are embedded in and determined by different contexts of political, cultural and social-economic norms and values. Urban development and the transformation of urban structures are triggered by technological innovations, laws and taxes, new behaviors or the impact of environmental conditions as well as other factors. Based on case studies from Egypt and the Middle East, together with some cases from Germany and Turkey, this book covers a wide range of change processes focused on historic and inner city districts.

Keywords

  • Sustainable Urban Development
  • Urban Heritage
  • Transformation of Urban Structures
  • Everyday Life in Historic Districts
  • Role of Public Realm
  • urban geography and urbanism
  • world regional geography

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

    Hebatalla Abouelfadl

  • Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

    Dalila ElKerdany

  • Department of Urban Development and Design, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

    Christoph Wessling

About the editors

EDITORS

Hebatalla Abouelfadl
 is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Dalila El-Kerdany is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

Christoph Wessling is a Dipl.Ing. Urban Planner and Dipl.Ing. for Architecture. Since 2011, he is the Head and scientific Coordinator of the Middle East Cooperation Unit (MEC), Institute of Urban Development and Design, University of Technology Cottbus, Germany.

Bibliographic Information

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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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