Artistic, Aesthetic and Edificial Works as Constant Elements of the Inconsistent Physical Character of a City

Basem Fadel Sayed Mohamed (1)
(1) Head of City Beautification Division at New Urban Communities Authority, PhD in Fine Arts, Egypt, Egypt

Abstract

Cities evolve and grow rapidly in a manner that is unprecedented throughout their long history. This great acceleration and growth is governed by many overlapping and intersecting factors (Economical, Social, Political, etc.), the process of identifying the city's character or identity is no longer an easy task. This appears more clearly in historic cities and historic areas that in most cases contrast with the civilizational, cultural and urban extension of the mother city. This therefore justifies the importance of polyphonic and edificial aesthetic works as they are elements of consistency and solidity of urbanism. Cities and their various components (facilities & planning, objectives & economics, construction & architecture) have witnessed a new turn and were influenced by many factors. These factors and their results should therefore be identified in order to understand how they reflect on cities and how artistic and aesthetic works reflect on the form and identity of cities.

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Authors

Basem Fadel Sayed Mohamed
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Author Biography

Basem Fadel Sayed Mohamed, Head of City Beautification Division at New Urban Communities Authority, PhD in Fine Arts, Egypt

Head of City Beautification Division at New Urban Communities Authority, PhD in Fine Arts

Mohamed, B. F. S. (2017). Artistic, Aesthetic and Edificial Works as Constant Elements of the Inconsistent Physical Character of a City. ARCHive-SR, 1(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.21625/archive.v1i1.105

Article Details

Received 2017-09-09
Accepted 2017-09-09
Published 2017-09-18