Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Urban Heritage Development
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Transformation of Urban Structures
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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.
Editors and Affiliations
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Revitalizing City Districts
Book Subtitle: Transformation Partnership for Urban Design and Architecture in Historic City Districts
Editors: Hebatalla Abouelfadl, Dalila ElKerdany, Christoph Wessling
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46289-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46288-2Published: 13 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83485-6Published: 18 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46289-9Published: 16 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 189
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban History