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Strengthening Alexandria Urban Fabric by Planning Urbanism’s Walkable Area
Ghada Ragheb
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2023.12.005
Department of Architectural Engineering, Pharos University, Alexandria, Egypt
Nowadays city of Alexandria has a very wide range of urban development projects; some of them have a major influence on the physical being of the city meanwhile others just have a small interpretation to its characteristics. The rapid growth of Alexandria city in the nineteenth century led to calls for parks to be provided for the health of all categories in the society. This could be seen as an early precedent to highlight the role of open spaces in supporting what we now call sustainable development. This paper proposes an urban development project which makes a replacement of an urban crawl in Alexandria city into unique open space through presenting a comprehensive approach for assessing this suggested project to create a walkability area based on a combination of its conceptual and applicable aspects. Discussion of the sustainability modules to this new urban development project in Alexandria will be accomplished, by the aim of investigating its ability to stand against the future challenges. It is concluded that a significant attribute of urban design achieves continuity of the urban fabric and streets, because this facilitates flows. Wherever movements occur, there is vitality and flow creates eyes on the street producing spontaneous surveillance. Also, comparison of contextual and neighbourhood before and after the project revealed the positive impact of the suggested project either on the built (physical) environment’s or health and social well-being.
Urban planning, sustainability, urban development.
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