Tactical Urbanism: Towards Improving the Livability in Urban Lost Spaces of Cairo
Basma Muhammad Ibrahim Elbeah;
Abstract
In the 1990s, Cairo was first designed as a paradise. With a European identity similar to Haussmann`s Paris, the city was designed as a Garden City, with a masterplan of public gardens, parks and playgrounds, various recreational spaces, and restricted laws on buildings’ heights.
In the last 50 years, urban development approaches in Egypt have focused on expanding and creating new infrastructure and street network strategies to overcome the problems created by the old network’s problems such as heavy traffic congestion by constructing elevated highways. On one hand, a positive aspect of this concentration was creating a new infrastructure system to connect the Greater Cairo Region to its new communities as well as solving, to a certain degree, the persistent traffic problem. On the other hand, however, this created another dilemma of lost urban spaces with the urban fabric, consequently affecting neighborhood and community livability.
This dissertation seeks to highlight guidelines for urban planners and decision-makers to guide the future development of new communities to create cities without lost spaces. It seeks answers to the following main questions:
What are the difficulties and chances of applying tactical urbanism in urban lost deteriorated spaces in Cairo? What happened in Cairo? Why does Cairo keep losing its livability? What kind of tactical urbanism approach features, or characteristics would provide our needs?
Consequently, the literature discusses some commonly agreed-on definitions of livability and Tactical Urbanism, Lost Spaces, and Under the Elevated terms.
This dissertation goes through three substantial objectives. The first is to explore the opportunities of applying tactical urbanism in neglected deteriorated spaces in Cairo. The second is to clarify and develop guidelines concerning the impact of tactical urbanism and livability in Cairo. The third is to inquire and explore the effect of construction regulations and place-making policies on the livability of a place.
In the last 50 years, urban development approaches in Egypt have focused on expanding and creating new infrastructure and street network strategies to overcome the problems created by the old network’s problems such as heavy traffic congestion by constructing elevated highways. On one hand, a positive aspect of this concentration was creating a new infrastructure system to connect the Greater Cairo Region to its new communities as well as solving, to a certain degree, the persistent traffic problem. On the other hand, however, this created another dilemma of lost urban spaces with the urban fabric, consequently affecting neighborhood and community livability.
This dissertation seeks to highlight guidelines for urban planners and decision-makers to guide the future development of new communities to create cities without lost spaces. It seeks answers to the following main questions:
What are the difficulties and chances of applying tactical urbanism in urban lost deteriorated spaces in Cairo? What happened in Cairo? Why does Cairo keep losing its livability? What kind of tactical urbanism approach features, or characteristics would provide our needs?
Consequently, the literature discusses some commonly agreed-on definitions of livability and Tactical Urbanism, Lost Spaces, and Under the Elevated terms.
This dissertation goes through three substantial objectives. The first is to explore the opportunities of applying tactical urbanism in neglected deteriorated spaces in Cairo. The second is to clarify and develop guidelines concerning the impact of tactical urbanism and livability in Cairo. The third is to inquire and explore the effect of construction regulations and place-making policies on the livability of a place.
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| Title | Tactical Urbanism: Towards Improving the Livability in Urban Lost Spaces of Cairo | Other Titles | التحضر التكتيكي : لتحسين قابلية العيش بالفراغات الضائعة بالقاهرة | Authors | Basma Muhammad Ibrahim Elbeah | Issue Date | 2021 |
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