Bridging the Gap between Urban Planning and Urban Design Processes: Developing a Framework for the Egyptian Context
Moureen Nazir Shawky Asaad;
Abstract
ABSTRACT:
Urban Design in the Egyptian context is facing major challenges, not only in terms of principles application or a certain problem with the urban product in specific areas, but also in the core of its understanding, values and process. The Major defining element of urban design is by the Unified Egyptian law 119/2008 which defines urban design as a group of individual or connected buildings with public or private use on a single land parcel. The offered definition contradicts the meaning of urban design in any international understanding. Incorporating such understanding to urban design as a part of the detailed plans on local level creates a gap between planning and the urban design product in the city.
The urban product in Egypt lacks the basic considerations or principles which urban design aims to achieve in any city. The current status of urban design requires a thorough study to what it should be like, not in terms of the product, but starting the beginning of the process; how it connects with the planning process, and how to create a successful urban design process, leading to a good urban design product within the Egyptian context.
Urban Design discipline is facing similar challenges from a theoretical perspective; where urban design process is not properly defined in theory, and the gap between urban design and planning is considered a well-known problem in the literature of urban design. Consequently, developing an understanding to urban design process, what it should be like, and how it connects to planning process requires a dual investigation on both theoretical and practical levels to reach a proper framework for the Egyptian context.
Urban Design in the Egyptian context is facing major challenges, not only in terms of principles application or a certain problem with the urban product in specific areas, but also in the core of its understanding, values and process. The Major defining element of urban design is by the Unified Egyptian law 119/2008 which defines urban design as a group of individual or connected buildings with public or private use on a single land parcel. The offered definition contradicts the meaning of urban design in any international understanding. Incorporating such understanding to urban design as a part of the detailed plans on local level creates a gap between planning and the urban design product in the city.
The urban product in Egypt lacks the basic considerations or principles which urban design aims to achieve in any city. The current status of urban design requires a thorough study to what it should be like, not in terms of the product, but starting the beginning of the process; how it connects with the planning process, and how to create a successful urban design process, leading to a good urban design product within the Egyptian context.
Urban Design discipline is facing similar challenges from a theoretical perspective; where urban design process is not properly defined in theory, and the gap between urban design and planning is considered a well-known problem in the literature of urban design. Consequently, developing an understanding to urban design process, what it should be like, and how it connects to planning process requires a dual investigation on both theoretical and practical levels to reach a proper framework for the Egyptian context.
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| Title | Bridging the Gap between Urban Planning and Urban Design Processes: Developing a Framework for the Egyptian Context | Other Titles | سد الفجوة بين عملية التخطيط و التصميم العمراني: تطوير إطار عمل للنطاق المصري | Authors | Moureen Nazir Shawky Asaad | Issue Date | 2018 |
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