Towards Enhancing and Enriching Cairo’s Walkable Experience in Downtown Cairo – Case Study: Selected Mixed-Use Service Buildings of Old Cairo

doi:10.21608/ijeasou.2024.373487

Towards Enhancing and Enriching Cairo’s Walkable Experience in Downtown Cairo – Case Study: Selected Mixed-Use Service Buildings of Old Cairo

Document Type : Research Article

10.21608/ijeasou.2024.373487

Abstract

Urban development is always an essential element in any national development strategy that plans or manages to change a present. In Egypt, the government is usually seeking urban development to supply the general demand of citizens, help in redistributing of planned or unplanned overstocked urban settlements and enhancing the visual image. Downtown Cairo is a rich urban area that is full of valuable historical buildings (Beautiful buildings, skyline and tremendous ornaments that all returns to the 19th century) of Egypt, which form its townscape.
This research aims to present an alternative to enhance downtown Cairo's environment through reusing a set of cores that was used to be influencing on its context. in this research, public services projects is highlighted internationally, studying their impacts and outputs that it has made, figuring out the branding it did created in some countries.
Research not only highlights the importance of finding catalytic projects that can develop its context but also approaches its influence as to provide a well walk able healthy environment to pedestrians and to comfort the perception of downtown different perspectives through revitalizing influencing points represented in catalytic projects that can manage to create livable interconnected walk-able areas. The research emphasizes the important role of revitalizing heritage buildings of downtown Cairo with the aim of enhancing the urban environment and developing urban context.

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