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GCs witnessed a dramatic wide spread in Egypt, which appeared in different ways reflecting how planning process affects the formulation of GCs inside new towns urban fabric. The aim of this paper is to explore the singularities of GCs in Egypt as well as to define the ways GCs are identified and defined in Egypt. The paper concerns the patterns tha...
تلعب الفراغات الحضرية دوراً هاماً فى صياغة الأنشطة الإنسانية العامة مما يجعل من تصميمها وإستخدام الألوان بها أهمية بالغة، فقد تتأثر الأنشطة الإنسانية داخل الفراغ الحضرى بالألوان المستخدمة فى تشكيل محددات الفراغ.
يهدف البحث الى التعرف على العلاقة بين الألوان والأنشطة الإنسانية فى فراغ كاريرا 48، ريونجرو، كولمبيا كحالة دراسة، يعتمد البحث على المنهج ا...
Urban sustainability and quality of urban life are two norms concerning the evaluation of neighborhood in term of performance and satisfaction, respectively. Urban sustainability aims to enhance economic, environmental, and social aspects for current and future generations; it depends on objective measures of performance to ensure that sustainable...
The uprising spread of corona virous pandemic gives social distance a great concern as a new way of life in contemporary cities. Covid-19 has forced planners and scholars to question health safety of traditional neighborhoods that are perceived as main reason for the spread of covid 19. Accordingly, they suggest that the turn to modern neighborhood...
Covid19 pandemic gives social distance great concerns in contemporary cities especially the one related to safe urban mobility. People were asked to choose travel modes that maintain safe social distance to minimize the chance of infection while traveling safely from place to another. Accordingly, urban mobility witnessed a paradigm shift from the...
Smart city is one of the powerful concepts that have deep impacts on contemporary cities. Planners, developers, and authorities thought that change to smart city using information and communication technologies could enhance the quality of urban life; rather, still their impact on long-term change of social life and consequently on social sustainab...
Using an experimental research-based approach with the guidance of several mechatronic professionals and biologists.
Worth mentioning that the purpose of the application/outcome of this prototype is not the design of the responsive unit; rather than being the processes in which the design and the fabrication go through.
The practical application...
Since the mid-twentieth century, the process of modernization caused an adaptation of westernized prototypes of residential neighborhoods in Greater Cairo Region. This evolution caused a relevant evolution of various prototypes of urban spaces, an evolution from traditional neighborhoods where street works as public space to new planned neighborhoo...
Motivated by global climate change, including global warming and greenhouse gas emissions, architects and designers undertook a duty to look for more efficient, sustainable building systems. Among the modern tools used to tackle the building functionality and climate-related problems is biomimicry. Aiming to enhance self-sustainable, widen ecologic...
تتمثل إشكالية البحث في تأخر العمارة العربية في اللحاق بركب العمارة الخضراء مع الحاجة الماسة لتطبيقها في ظل المشكلات البيئية المتزايدة وندرة الموارد والطاقة. إلى جانب تسارع العمارة العربية في إستخدام التكنولوجيا بمختلف صورها وخاصة في أغلفة المباني, دون النظر في كونها مناسبة لبيئتنا أو لا, مما يزيد من مشكلاتها البيئية.
Social capital considers social networks that assure the correlation, cooperation and contraction between neighborhoods. Different scholars discussed the role of urban form in enhancing social capital. Changing development patterns from the traditional in old Egyptian cities to modern neighborhood in new Egyptian settlements creates a debate of the...
يتناول البحث دراسة أثر العوامل السياسية وما يتبعها من تغيرات بالعوامل الاقتصادية والاجتماعية على التوجهات المعمارية. ذلك من خلال دراسة دور العوامل السياسية في ظهور وانتشار التوجه التغريبي في العمارة المصرية والذي بدأ خلال فترة حكم محمد علي لمصر وازداد انتشاره خلال فترة حكم إسماعيل، ودراسة الطرز المعمارية المعبرة عن التوجه التغريبي والنتاج المعماري...
Research Summary The study examines the impact of political factors and the consequent changes in economic and social factors on architectural trends. through studying the role of political factors in the emergence and spread of the Western trend in Egyptian architecture, which began during Muhammad Ali's rule in Egypt and increased during Ismail's...
Social capital is considered the social networks that assure the correlation, cooperation and contraction between neighborhoods. Different scholars discussed the role of urban form in enhancing social capital. Changing development patterns from the traditional in old Egyptian cities to modern neighborhood in new Egyptian settlements creates a debat...
بدأت مصر بعد ثورة يناير 2011 وبعد إستقرار الأوضاع بها فى مسيرة التنمية على الرغم من وجود بعض الصعاب، لكن جارى التغلب عليها فى الوقت الحاضر، وبدأ المفكرون والعلماء فى عرض مشاريع وسياسات عمرانية كانت قد عرضت فى الفترات السابقة وبعض هذه المشروعات بدأ العمل فيها على أرض الواقع بالفعل، وقد طرحت الهيئة العامة للتخطيط العمرانى مشروع تنمية مصر 2052 وهذا ال...
يناقش البحث العلاقة التبادلية بين تأثير التطور التكنولوجي والتوافق البيئي علي العمارة. فيعمل البحث علي استيضاح لأهم مظاهر هذا التأثير وذلك ضمن تحليل معطيات الدراسة النظرية. ذلك لأن البيئة بمفهومها وتصنيفها إلي بيئة طبيعية وحضارية هي المسئولة عن إعطاء الحضارة تميزها بشخصية ثقافية ودينية تتجلي علي مر العصور وتلاقي احتراما وتقديرا من مختلف الحضارات. ك...
The last few decades, Egypt drawn into a dramatic socio-economic change that causes a relative change in
adopted development patterns. Different typologies of new residential districts have turned from globalized
westernized world into Egyptian context. Planners and authority thought that changing adopted development
patterns from traditional to mo...
Sustainable Urban Mobility, Movement Behavior, Mode choices, Mobility Pattern, Neighborhood Patterns, Greater Cairo Region.
The debate of mixed versus separate land-use communities still constitutes a controversial matter for different interest groups. A growing number of scholars agree that neighborhoods with mixed compared to separate land-use could achieve sustainable development. On the other hand, residents and practitioners defend neighborhoods with separate land-...
The bulk of research on the performance of double skin facade is carried out in moderate climates with concern to ventilation and thermal performance. Day-light performance of double skin facades in hot aarid zones is still under scientific scrutiny, which will be the concern of the research in Educational Buildings. This investigation adopts an in...
The high concentration of low education level, low socio-economic level and high poverty level inside urban fabric creates criminal focal points that become a key factor associated with the increase of crime rates and the reduction of sense of security. These criminal points impose a great risk to their adjacent neighborhoods; some adjacent neighbo...
Architecture manifestation of nature is not new; through history, architects try to manifest nature,
they always consider nature as big source of inspiration. The last few decades witnessed a scientific
revolution caused deep understanding of nature form and life principles. Many Architects tested the
contributions of such principles to architectur...
Through history, Cairo witnessed different political regimes that caused consequential different
neighborhoods models with varying socio-spatial characteristics. The research is to tackle the
effect of Political regime on cities first in terms of their impacts on development manifesto, the
role of development actors, and planning theory, then their...
مع نهاية العقد الخامس من القرن العشرين تبين قصور عمارة الحداثة في التواصل مع المكان نتيجة تبنيها فكرة الطراز الدولي الواحد، وكرد فعل لذلك تصدرت قضية التواصل مع المكان الصدارة لتصبح أهم الجدليات المطروحة في الساحة المعمارية المعاصرة، وقد ظهرت اتجاهات عمارة ما بعد الحداثة في محاولة لإيجاد لغة للتواصل مع المكان، ولكن على الرغم من عموم أهداف هذه الاتجا...
Through history, architects try to manifest nature. Contemporary shift in scientific interpretations of nature is influencing man nature relationship. This paper explores systematically the ways in which scientific models of understanding nature are reshaping theory of contemporary architecture. In particular, it addresses the link existing between...
This paper is based on a Ph.D. dissertation that theoretically examined the contribution of GCs to urban development, it is theoretically concluded that GCs could impose negative impacts on urban development, and that GCs are characterized by a diversity of physical and social characteristics that gives rise to a great variety of impacts on develop...
Gated Communities are a powerful idea that has the potentiality to make deeper changes in social and spatial fabric our cities. They showed a wide spread in all local, Arabia and international levels, which raise an important question, Do Gated Communities introduce a better solution that can solve the problem of GCR new towns or not?. From the fir...
This paper is interested of analyzing Gated Communities, criticizing their efficiency as a holistic pattern for urban development, hence question their contribution to urban development, ant their compatibility in Egyptian context. With question how to enhance their contribution to urban development, and how to reduce their negative impacts on urba...
1 ABSTRACT The past few decades have witnessed a practical orientation toward gated communities and divided cities. Enclosed planned unit development (PUD) has been centers of concern for city planning since the late nineteenth century. The relation between PUD and its contextual urban fabric is a preventive force toward a livable city form, a majo...
Gated Communities are a powerful idea that has the potentiality to make deeper changes in our cities.
they showed a wide spread in all local, Arabia and international levels, which raise an important question,
Do Gated Communities introduce a better solution that can solve the problem of GCR new towns or not?.
From the first look, the answer seems...
. Gated Communities proved to have many negative impacts on urban development, and as the spread of this pattern and its problems has to be appeared. From this point, a great theoretical trend has started to discover this phenomena. As a planners, we should deal with this phenomenon, discover and measure its impact on micro, macro, micro-macro rela...
