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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.This dissertation utilized various kinds of methods to accomplish its
destinations. Foremost, documentation demonstrated an extraordinary advantage in
drawing the foundation whereupon the information assortment was directed. The
second tool, semi-structured interviews which helped in acquiring the information
and history of the case study within the limited time-frame available.
selecting more than one case study in greater Cairo is important as we can
decrease the generalization of the research`s output. The criteria for the selection of
case studies was to select distinctive case studies that were created and founded in
different eras and within different neighborhoods and communities to optimize the
selection of these cases to represent the lost spaces in greater Cairo.
This dissertation structure is divided into four phases. First, the overall
introduction of this research and study is executed. Second, the theoretical
framework is collected were a review. Third, the solution for the lost spaces in Egypt
and how they can differ from each other. The fourth part includes the analytical
framework (for investigating the guidance structure of the analytical case study) is
submitted and the appropriate assessment tools for the case study. Finally, the
conclusions of the research and recommendations for further research.
Subsequently, this dissertation introduces and discusses an in-depth analysis of
the international and national best practice case studies which resulted in formulating
the dissertation`s analytical framework. It emphasizes critical points and guidelines
for the analysis of Tactical Urbanism and confirmed and demonstrated to be an
efficient and practical tool through which the contextual analysis was methodically
reported and analyzed.