Toward Urban Spaces of Quality: Through the Existing Urban Legislations in Egypt

Haitham El Sharnouby (1)
(1) Higher Institute for Engineering and Technology in Behera, Egypt., Egypt
https://doi.org/10.21625/archive.v2i3.362

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Egyptian urban spaces suffer from a chaos that is the result of crowded and disordered pedestrian sidewalks, streets and shop signage. This chaos creates a negative effect on, both, the image of the city and the quality of life within these urban spaces. Many legislations and regulations in Egypt attempted to deal with these issues. Similarly, the Egyptian government established many organizations and authorities in order to deal with these issues with little success. The National Organization of Urban Harmony (NOUH) is one of those organizations established by the government to take the responsibility of dealing with pedestrian sidewalk and shops’ signage while the municipality deals with road occupations. These organizations should perform their responsibilities through the Egyptian legislations. The research at hand aims to find a solution to that particular problem which has influenced the quality of the street and its reflection to the quality of life as result. In order to find a solution, the research attempts to find a mechanism to boost the role of shop signage as an element of urban spaces in order to emphasize street quality. Thus, the research well be divided into four parts: part one reviews the quality of urban spaces and the meaning of its terms while part two reviews the concept of the quality of life and the relation between the quality of life and urban spaces. Part three demonstrates the urban quality of life through tangible and intangible approaches. Finally, part four reviews the Egyptian legislations that deal with research issues and attempts to find the difficulties that faced when enforcing laws. Finally, the research conclusion illustrates the most important issues in the research and their proposed solutions.

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Haitham El Sharnouby
Higher Institute for Engineering and Technology in Behera, Egypt.
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El Sharnouby, H. (2018). Toward Urban Spaces of Quality: Through the Existing Urban Legislations in Egypt. ARCHive-SR, 2(3), 234–246. https://doi.org/10.21625/archive.v2i3.362
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