The role of landscape design in new urban place, Case study: New administrative capital in Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD – Cairo University, Assistant Professor, Architecture Department- Faculty of Engineering, October 6 University

2 PhD – Politecnico Di Milano, Assistant Professor, Architecture Department – Faculty of Engineering, October 6 University

Abstract

Sustainability of place identity is one of the main concerns in 
architecture nowadays. The end of the last century witnessed a 
rapid increase in urban population worldwide due to the increase 
of internal and external immigration rate. Recently, more than 
half of the world‘s population lives in urban settlements, putting 
into consideration the fact that these settlements continue to grow 
in order to accommodate more inhabitants. Therefore 
accordingly, both natural and cultural landscape resources will 
continue to be under pressure in and around these urban 
settlements.
Today, Landscape design approaches and practice are 
interdisciplinary, and they can be used to manage the 
development of urban settlements. Therefore, it is important to 
introduce an analytical Landscape framework which respects 
place identity. The main concern of this framework technique is 
to identify the cultural features of urban place and preserve these 
features through the growth of new urban extensions. This helps 
in conserving the local image and values of urban places which 
considered as an important aspect in urban design and planning.

Keywords

International Journal of Architectural Engineering and Urban Research
Volume 4, Issue 2
December 2021
Pages 114-137

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics