... of development projects on people's preferences for old and contemporary features in modern cities. The evidence for this can be seen mainly at historical sites such as Heliopolis in Cairo, Egypt. Design/methodology/approach The authors investigated how development projects affect place identity and city...

... in-between space in Sheraton District, Cairo. Egypt's cities are witnessing a decline in public spaces. The state abandoned its role in providing the residents with their social goods. Public spaces are left to the users to achieve their own needs and this often tends to be unsuccessful due to the lack...

... used two qualitative research tools: document analysis augmented with informal interviews. The author uses Egypt as a case study in an attempt to answer this question. The author reviewed two types of documents: official reports that the Egyptian authorities produced and donor agencies prepared plus...

... and contradictions highlights that decolonisation and cosmopolitanism are two inseparable facets in the architectural practice in Egypt’s 21st century. These indivisible notions are based on idiosyncratic core to human experience, which emerged from concurrent overturning historical and secular everyday life...