Abeer Elshater

Abeer Elshater
Ain Shams University · Urban Design

Professor of Urban Morphology

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Introduction
Abeer Elshater is a full professor of urban morphology at Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University (ASU), Cairo, teaching and supervising multidisciplinary topics in the ideology of urban design. Her area of interest is in urban design with a focus on urban morphology. She has worked on some international research projects with foreign universities. Elshater is an author and co-author of books as well as numerous manuscripts in scientific journals.
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February 2015 - August 2020
Ain Shams University
Position
  • Professor (Full)
December 2011 - August 2020
Universität Stuttgart
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  • Professor (Full)
October 2009 - February 2015
Ain Shams University
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  • Professor (Assistant)

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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 h...
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“War: What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing” (Edwin Starr) During the course of wars, cities’ infrastructures mainly networks, roads, bridges, facilities, and homes, are exposed to destruction. Fighting, regardless of its inadvertence, destroys the structural assets of architecture and oftentimes leads to the erasure of urban artefacts. Against...
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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...
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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 me...
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Several urban agendas related to different urban spaces in cities are documented in the global literature. This research explores social interactions in voids between buildings using tactical urbanism. As part of this study, we examine changes in perceptions of the use of spaces between buildings by comparing critical differentiation factors before...
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This article discusses the crucial role of blogs in reporting topical materials yet to be adequately discussed in scholarly journals. A scoping study examined 31 samples from 4 types of blogging sources cited in 10 publications published in 7 journals in 2020. We identified four categories of blogs that include 39 community organisations, academics...
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This study develops a replicable urban toolkit for decision-makers to improve the quality of life in Cairo for residents and visitors affected by traffic noise. Our case study in Cairo was selected using the Aviation Design Environmental Tool (AEDT) used worldwide for airports. To simulate the COVID-19 era and days after, the noise contour mapping...
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The concepts of ‘city singularity’ and ‘smartness’ were utilised as a guide for writing this article, along with other elements, such as personality, identity, and character. We used a descriptive-analytical research methodology. According to our scoping review, urban form and everyday life have much in common. This study identified 13 factors in f...
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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 cit...
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Choosing the proper research methods can pose a challenge for novice urban planners and designers. This study aimed to develop a more effective process for assisting urban planners and designers in selecting appropriate research techniques. The study used bibliometrics, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and storytelling techniques as examples of u...
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This study tackles the design challenge of urban in fill development which arises from changes in the urban form and daily living experiences. Using the Web of Science to review relevant literature published over the last decade, we found a signi ficant gap in the study of in fill development: it overlooks liveability and conviviality. To fill this...
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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 place-making through liveability and quality of li...
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In the field of urban studies, artificial intelligence technology offers potential applications. There are, however, limited sources on how technology can contribute to the study of user experiences in city contexts. This study examined the factors affecting user experiences around three exits of one of the Cairo Metro stops in Ramses Square in Cai...
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The point of view expressed in this article is theoretically grounded in the PRISMA state-ment, which is a tool for critically evaluating academic papers in public health. Bibliometrics analysis, systematic review, meta-analysis, and storytelling techniques (BSMS) were used to identify relevant studies and create a process for documented urban plan...
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Economic and urban planning research differ in determining the emergence of the informal economy. The literature describes the informal economy as the hidden economy in various terms. When it comes to the development of the informal sector, economic and urban planning studies are not on equal terms. It’s common to link the rise of the informal sect...
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Blogs are a double-edged sword. These online essays can be produced by anyone with access to a computer and the internet. The writers could be well-informed experts with valuable insights to share, or official government agencies. Some bloggers are outstanding academic authors who have published their work in accessible databases, like Scopus, Web...
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Global research extensively discusses artificial intelligence (AI) and thermal comfort in urban studies. The current research design uses Goodvision Video Insights as an application of AI to analyse users' preferences for movement within three exits/entrances of the metro stations in Ramses Square, Cairo, Egypt. This study uses AI technology to tra...
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Global literature documents many urban agendas related to urban sprawl, traffic transit sequences, and flyovers. Changes in development patterns in Egypt have led to many lost spaces beneath flyovers, affecting the urban fabric. Despite these lost spaces under the flyovers, current Egyptian policies have transformed them into public spaces. This pa...
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Scholarly studies have enriched the definition and theory of place identity since the 1960s. These trends are becoming more prevalent in the urban setting. This is because place identity has become a common theme in many researches and design projects and a thriving theme in policies and regulations to achieve sustainable development. In this respe...
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In the past decades, protecting the urban environment in the face of environmentalism and environmental rights has become crucial to saving the planet from the dangers of the rapid urban development of new cities and societies. Air temperature is one of the factors influenced by climate change and contemporary city morphology that lacks compact cit...
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The link of proposal submission is: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5426 This book focuses on the urban heat islands (UHI) phenomenon and 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) Climate action (Goal 13) The...
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Signs of interest in weather began in the second half of the nineteenth century, specifically between 1772 and 1864, in two volumes of the Englishman Luke Howard (2012) on meteorological observations in London. The impact of weather on agriculture and navigation was also studied. In the past decades, protecting the urban environment in the face of...
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The United Nations (UN) has proposed two actions against climate change between 2015 and 2021: "combat" in Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and "adaptation" in the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (the Conference of the Parties COP 26). This chapter aims to highlight pathways and actions for addressing and adapting to climate ch...
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This chapter examines a community developed in the early 20th century as a sustainable development paradigm. However, today saw the implementation of particular development plans in some cities in the global south that may not align with this community's long-term goals. Two Delphi rounds and an Envi-Met micro-climate simulation helped researchers...
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Finding unfamiliar phrases and concepts that have not been used in a long time or are used in different professions with similar principles is one of the most challenging tasks for many urban planning and design academics. In two respects, this chal- lenge has become more complex. The first is that some research- ers wish to recover an unfamiliar t...
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has dramatically changed how people can safely use public spaces, particularly in densely populated urban environments. This short commentary revealed the effects of people’s absence in public places due to the series of lockdowns or social distancing policies imposed due to the pandemic. The argument presented w...
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This paper as a briefing explains the difference between 'city uniqueness' and 'city singularity' and emphasises how a city's notoriety promotes its unique characteristics in a deliberate direction towards the singularity. This viewpoint asserts that the significant urban forms are responsible for cities' uniqueness. In contrast, city singularity i...
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This paper compares the perception of residents and pass-by users of lost spaces to extract the perceptual factors affecting these spaces. The aim is to demonstrate the need for examining livability for practical applications in the levels of regions, neighborhoods, and small areas. The findings discuss some definitions of the term “livability.” Th...
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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 e...
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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...
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This review article examines the possibility of providing a toolkit to prepare habitats for free-roaming cats (FRCs) in public spaces. The toolkit targets local communities, authorities, stakeholders, and advocates in the cities of the Global South, to raise awareness and improve the welfare of FRCs living in urban communities. This article explore...
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Schools of upper secondary education play an essential role in the development of society. However, the city architects focus on school buildings with less attention to the surrounding places. Public space was not initially designed for pupils and resulted from their needs and activities. This paper focuses on the relationship between the role of v...
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Urban design and planning perspectives involve miscellaneous topics in the social sciences. However, plans involving cities, towns, and neighbourhoods continue to change and become more complicated, while the planning profession goes back to its roots by including people-centred development in the urban agenda. Now, do the latest urban paradigms in...
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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...
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This article provides a systematic and critical review of urban paradigms that incorporate economic and cultural diversity, information technology, and competitiveness considering the SDG 11. It explores the possibility of discussing future research using sets of research topics and words of coexistence predefined in urban planning and design liter...
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Abstract Purpose–Over the coming decades, the widespread application of social distancing creates challenges for theurban planning and design profession. This article aims to address the phenomenon of boredom in publicplaces, its main influences that generate change in repetition, monotony and everyday lifestyle, whetherpositive, negative or both–d...
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Many studies have been conducted over the last 20 years to determine and measure factors that affect the walkability of city streets. Walkability is an essential factor in deciding whether a city is green or sustainable. This paper creates a comprehensive walkability index by analysing built environmental indicators that affect walkability. This re...
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The idea of this book originated in the 4th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism ICCAUA2021, held online in Alanya Hamdullah Emin Pasa University in May 2021. It was conceived as an intellectual discourse and a concise compendium of recent research in two parts, first part comprises Architecture and Urban st...
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Globally, there is a rapid development of urban heat island (UHI) detection tools, and their results can be accepted regardless of their accuracy in measuring the real impact of the phenomenon. In this study, we investigated various UHI measuring tools and analysed their findings to better interpret their reliability. The tools in the current resea...
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Hypospadias is one of the most common congenital defects affecting the external male genitalia. The incidence is 1 in 250 male newborns, although its incidence seems to be increasing. Hypospadias is defined as an insufficient development of the urethral fold and the ventral foreskin, with or without penile curvature. The urethral opening is located...
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Global research in landscape architecture demonstrates the perceived safety in parks. This article used Al-Azhar Park, Cairo, Egypt, as a case study to determine the type of prospect that most promotes users' perception of safety. Given that prospects-refuge makes perceived safety perform better, this research focuses on 20 types of prospects conce...
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Monitoring the changes in people's presences in public spcaes can play a vital role in enhancing place-making research. This study investigated Herrengasse Street in Graz, Austria, and Oxford Street in London, the UK, using a systematic review, real scene interpretations, and expert advice to check the casual and deductive arguments. A six-step con...
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In the 1950s, Frank Sinatra described New York City in his song ‘New York, New York’ as ‘the city that never sleeps’ (JJ Leppard -MasTA, 2010). Today, there are few cities that never sleep (Mayor of London, 2018; Sonnega, Sonnega, & Kruger, 2019). Today, New York and Cairo are ranked first and second respectively as 24-hour cities, while Paris rank...
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This chapter explores the random configurations of lighting elements of billboards and outdoor screens in historical public spaces. This chapter built a theoretical base on a systematic review of research indexed in Web of Science (WOS) as hot topics and highly cited in the field published in the last five years. Reflecting on the case of Old Cairo...
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Every smart city has digital technology, but not every city has a digital technology called ‘smart’. This chapter focuses on the impact of digital technologies on nightlife in public spaces. The literature describes the third place as a dramatic zone of situations that articulate current events, referring to the urban nightlife atmosphere as a type...
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This book investigates urban nightlife transformations and the challenge of enhancing the sense of belonging in sensitive areas like local communities and historical sites and offers new insights into controlling the chaotic intervention of traditional or digital technology, whether from citizens themselves or local authorities"-Provided by publish...
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Should smart city applications reconsider the principles of placemaking in confronting the resemblance of smart cities? This systematic review seeks to answer this question by offering a framework that elucidates the principles of placemaking in smart cities and the relationship between people and places. The results of reviewing the SciVal and SCI...
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This article investigates the predicament of the presence of internally displaced persons (IDPs) near sites that have significant historical value. Particularly at the Aqueduct of Cairo, Egypt, established in AD 1176, this scene materializes as a result of facultative choices of IDPs or a group that decision-makers have forcibly displaced to save l...
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This chapter addresses “new methods” to display research problems which are strongly linked with the issue of urban emotions. It focuses on how to use these methods in urban design, based on the dominant science and new analytical approaches, such as “virtual world design,” “spatial planning,” “geoinformatics,” “urban sensing,” and “a three-dimensi...
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Children are the eventual future of the city. Children who grow up feeling truly at home here as secure, energetic, engaged citizens will be grown-ups who add to making an incredible city for the age to come. Children are additionally among our most powerless natives, and their hardships or prosperity is the best pointers of what our city resembles...
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This paper aims to provide a theoretical framework for exploring the quality of affective atmospheres relevant to urban situations in city centre streets. This research study assumes that urban situations can shed light on how the urban form and everyday life experiences impact affective atmospheres. To examine this assumption, a snowballing techni...
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The difference in the political leanings, ethnic diversity or religious beliefs between the nations leads to armed conflicts. Cities become subject to total or partial destruction, physically, socially and economically. The number of displaced people witnessed a significant increase in the last few years, with several ongoing conflicts across the w...
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In using the assemblage theory, this article focuses on the concepts of ''city singularity" and ''urban atmo-spheres" in designing better places for children. A literature review revealed a theoretical framework aiming at a possible relationship between singularity, urban atmospheres, and assemblage thinking. A retrospective survey launched among p...
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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...
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A regenerative vision is mainly about ensuring that future generations inherit a robust and intact world, in which individuals can fully realize their human potential. Regenerative cities provide all residents with opportunities to improve their quality of life. Modern cities continuously offer their citizens the possibility of a better quality of...
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Recent years have witnessed a widespread cultural-led urban and regional policies in the urban rehabilitation process. Worldwide, urban developers use culture-based economy and industries as a driver for social, physical and economic regeneration through attracting a diverse population. This research aims to map arts and culture activities in Downt...
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The widespread application of social distancing measures will create challenges for the urban design profession in the future. This article discusses boredom in public places and the main influences creating repetition and monotony, depending on the rules of and variations in urban design and everyday lifestyles. Urban design practitioners should d...
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This article reviewed the normative distinguishing factors of 'space' and 'place' when associated with particular descriptions. A content analysis of 23 books revealed several distinguishing factors, and a systematic review of the SciVal and SCImago databases identified nine relevant journals. A scoping review of 26 articles in these journals found...
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Nowadays, the planning process of cities and the retrofitting of existing ones need to undergo a complete paradigm shift. This shift focuses on the urban metabolism of cities that should be transformed from their current inefficient and wasteful operating systems into regenerative resource-efficient ones. In this regard, cities should start harness...
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This proceedings addresses the challenges of urbanization that gravely affect the world’s ecosystems. To become efficiently sustainable and regenerative, buildings and cities need to adopt smart solutions. This book discusses innovations of the built environment while depicting how such practices can transform future buildings and urban areas into...
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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 f...
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This chapter examines how placemaking and filmmaking can improve teaching urban design-based situations of atmospheres. The qualitative-deductive form of content analysis addresses atmospheres in four Egyptian and American films and thus creates a conceptual framework for design strategy in studio of urban design. In this chapter, the authors discu...
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In recent years, the notion of ‘smartness’ as it relates to the urban environment, the incorporation of smart technologies in urban places, and the associated impact on urban forms and civic life has become one of the widely acknowledged and growing challenges in urban design and planning and design.
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This chapter reviews the implications of using the words “essences” and “spirit” in urban studies and their link with the concept of affective atmospheres in the realms of architecture. Two assumptions are valid when this matter is addressed. The first is that, despite affective atmospheres being considered as the fifth dimension in architecture, t...
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At a time when laptops and Wi-Fi connections proliferate, it is possible to work and socialise any- where. The pressing issue is how people should perceive their ambiance when released from physical interactions in public. This chapter addresses the possibility of designing a space that combines users’ plurality with the coherence of the entire des...
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This explanatory research investigates the impact of configurations in the urban fabric on walkability regarding connectivity and global integration. This study aims to examine this effect by comparing street networks in two residential neighbourhoods in Heliopolis and New Cairo cities. The research methods use DepthMapX and Walk Score to provide r...
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New technologies have the power to augment many aspects of society, including public spaces and art. The impact of smart technology on urban design is vast and filled with opportunity and has profound implications on the everyday urban environment. Only by starting new conversations can we develop further contemporary insights that will affect how...
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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, attr...
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Purpose This paper focuses on the competencies and skills needed in preparing graduates of urban planning schools to meet the real-world challenges of professional practices. The present work explores the gap between skills and knowledge required to excel in the urban planning discipline and professional practices. Design/methodology/approach This...
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Public places are places where all citizens, irrespective of their race, age, religion, or class level (social or economic), cannot be excluded. It serves to improve the lifestyle experience of its inhabitants, as well as promote social connections. All citizens are responsible for it and are interested in it, and the intervention for change must b...
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Urban streets in some countries of global south have been struggling for decades and have several problems. Much money is spent on roads construction and maintenance yearly with no significant interest to create places for public life that is different from a city/place to another. This paper addresses the pressing need to review the principles rai...
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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, micro-climate and the environment. Urban Heat Island (UHI) i...
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Recent years have witnessed a widespread cultural led urban and regional policies aiming towards urban revitalization. Culture-based economy and industries are being used as a driver for social, physical and economic regeneration through attracting a diverse population. This research aims to investigate arts and culture activities in the case of Do...