Abeer Elshater

The Unknown Cities (eBook, ePUB)

From Loss of Hope to Well-Being [And] Self-Satisfaction

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the many relatively unknown Egyptian cities, which research has largely ignored. It seeks to enhance the livability of urban areas and stop the processes that turn residents into anti-utopians and their cities into dystopias. It examines urbanization patterns in what are currently rural or informal settlements. It draws on concepts from Western and Arabic thought concerning idealism and utopianism, linking anti-utopianism with ideas such as loss of hope and residents right to the city. It also investigates the epistemology and methodology of urban design, using the descriptive-analytical approach to evaluate methods of self-criticism to address the problems and enhance urban planning and design. The literature regarding ten-minute neighborhoods is reviewed, along with a comparative content analysis of online articles, and the resultant principles are tested through site observation. It is found that happiness can be promoted by the principle of ten-minute pedestrian access to essential services, which can viably guide the reformation of urban planning. This work recommends that urban planning should be based on the ten-minute neighborhood, thus improving the future prospects of utopianism in Egypts unknown cities. Recently, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, there was a definite human crisis that emerged in the Egyptian cities at the level of local urban communities, which reflects on the whole city and the attached ones. The problem seems to be in the transformation of some urban sites in the metropolitan [and small] cities to become dystopian places, regarding the dynamic impact of the anti-utopian people. The concept of anti-utopians stands as an intermediate step between livable cities and dystopian communities through the transformation that occurs due to the lack of strategic plans by the administrators and/or the experts, with a special mention to the plans for poor people. Therefore, from our perspective, there is an urgent need to say that the majority of Egyptian cities should be declared as domains of humanitarian disasters, which are caused by human hazards rather than the natural disasters, e.g. earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, whirlwinds, and hurricanes. Thus, the first/headmost city that will announce its failure in the structural and human scene will get the self-respect and worlds estimate as well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482862294
• Artikelnr.: 52598836

Autorenporträt

Abeer Elshater is an associate professor at Ain Shams University. She was born in 1976 in Egypt. She obtained her BSc in urban design and spatial planning in 1999 from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. In 2009, she received her PhD in urban design from the same university. Since then, she has acted as an assistant professor then an associate professor, teaching and supervising multidisciplinary topics in urban planning and design. She has worked on some international research projects with international universities. In 2011, she joined the program Integrated Urbanism & Sustainable Design (IUSD) as a teaching staff and academic adviser of post-graduate students. She has published a book entitled Urban Design Paradigm, as well as thirteen scientific manuscripts in international journals and periodicals. She is a vice director of Contagious Improvement of Quality Assurance Unit (CIQAU) at Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University (ASU). Her official e-mail is [e-mail]. Hisham M. G. Abusaada is currently professor of architecture and urban design in architecture and housing research institute, Housing and Building National Research Center HBRC, Cairo, Egypt. He taught in the urban design program in the department of landscape architecture at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, from 1995 to 2004, and in several Egyptian Universities, and higher institutions. He is an architect and urban designer, educator, and author of numerous books and articles on the urban design. He has more than thirty-five issued scientific papers and sixtieth essays in Arabic and Egyptian magazine. He concerns with the sociocultural aspects and special problems of the urban community and development project. He has several published books i.e., (1) The Art of the City, Refutation of Intellectual Discourse toward Knowledge Enlightenment, Partridge Publishing Africa, A Penguin Random House Company, South Africa, 2015; (2) Topics in Landscape Architecture profession, academic book, Cairo, Egypt, 2007; (3) Post Occupancy Evaluation, translated book, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, King Faisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2004; and (4) Efficiency and Urban Form Generation, approach to site planning and design, Academic Book, Cairo, Egypt, 1992.