Recently, the Egyptian government has announced sustainability as the sin quo for any development plans on all the governmental sectors. The Egyptian urban development sector has been the main target concerning the ability to introduce sustainability aiming to minimize the negative impacts of the sector. Although, the government plans to introduce sustainability the achieved development is still existing negative impacts especially on the environmental dimension. The situation urges for a new approach that bare the ability to satisfy the development of the sector while maintaining and preserving the environmental assets of the developed urban areas. The paper aiming to target the appropriate approach conducted a comparative analytical study for the various new urban development approaches. The study أ .د . بشندي حسنين يوسف سعاد
The concept of urban agriculture has been regarded lately as one of the most promising approaches for promoting sustainability within the urban context of developing countries. Urban agriculture can carry the answer regarding the ability of introducing justice, beauty, greening, and the best possible social, cultural and functional engagement to our cities. Also, the concept holds great opportunities as an innovative approach for introducing food safety and food production sources for local and developing communities. Egypt as well as most developing countries suffers from the instability of the food production sector, due to agricultural problems. In addition, the country urban regions offer a very low open and green areas per residence, as situation that negatively impact the quality of life of the residence of the Egyptian cities. Urban agriculture can provide the Egyptian urban areas with the required greening and produces more sustainable agriculture and food production systems .The paper aims to innovate an approach that has the ability to promote urban agriculture to the context of the Egyptian urban communities. The paper methodology is composed of three parts. The first part is the literature review studying the types and forms of urban agriculture, the second part is the analytical studies where international case studies were analyzed reporting on the pros and challenges for promoting the various types and finally an inductive study is to compose and present the proposed framework for introducing urban agriculture to the Egyptian urban communities.
This paper tackles "Smart campus" concept as a new approach for urban design and urban planning. This concept combines multiple interrelated aspects. These aspects have an immense reflection on the efficiency of smart campus open spaces. Adding to that, it also eases the transition from traditional transition open spaces to smart interactive outdoor spaces. This
Egypt is a country that is endowed with one of the world's richest and most spectacular environment suitable for different types of tourism. Despite the diversity and richness of those natural heritage resources, the industrial and economic situation of the country is in turmoil. Such a situation leads the country to intensively rely on developing, and extensively using, its resources to satisfy its economic demands and requirements without much care to the environment. Since the eve of the seventies until now, unsustainable forms of tourism development have been initiated upon the natural and historical dimensions of the country's heritage. Consequently, the country's resources have been inefficiently consumed to a degree that the country has lost a number of its sensitive sites and resources.The paper deals with one of the natural heritage resources of the country, the coastal areas. Egypt endows more than 2450 km of highly scenic outstanding beaches overlooking the Mediterranean and the Red sea, and has adopted a highly intensive resort tourism industry, both on the national and international tourism markets. The types of resort development that took place have exerted deep negative impacts on the ecological integrity and stability of such highly sensitive coastal areas. The paper provokes the importance to adapt and promote the concept of eco-efficient design for promoting a sustainable form of resort development. Based on theoretical and practical analysis an eco-meter for eco-efficient resort planning and design is innovated. The eco-meter is tested and applied on the case study of Marina al-Alamien Resort, to be used as a guideline for promoting sustainability among existing and future resort designs.
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