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Title: Paradigms of Development in Cairo: Mobilization patterns of development Organizations
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Title: Energy Efficient Urban Configurations for Residential Projects in Cairo
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Title: Coping with Climate Change - Reflections for Community Based Strategies in Cairo's Urban Informal Settlements
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Title: Urban Upgrading of the Historical Town as a Step towards Sustainability: Development of a Generic Sustainable Urban Upgrading Strategy for the Historical Town in Syria Applied to the old Town of Jableh Author: Ghevar Ismail Date: Sept 2013
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Title: The Shifting Role of Planners with and through Development Aid Cooperations in MENA region context: The Case Study of UNHABITAT in Egypt Author: Insaf Ben Othmane Date: Sept 2013
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Title: Designing Landscape as Infrastructure Water Sensitive Open Space Design in Cairo Author: Liza Diester Date: Sept 2013
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Title: Coastal Landscape between Resistance and Resilience to Sea Level Rise Author: Lobna Mitkees Date: Sept 2013
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Title: Parametric Analysis for Daylight Autonomy and Energy Consumption in Hot Climates Optimization of Fenestration in Residential Buildings in Cairo Author: Mohamed Amer Hegazy Date: Sept 2013
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Title: Alternative Building Materials and Components for Affordable Housing in Egypt: Towards Improved Competitiveness of Modern Earth Construction Author: Mona Farouk El-Kabbany Date: Sept 2013
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Title: Analysing the Public Transportation in Amman: The Case of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Author: Muna Shaalan Date: Sept 2013
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Title: Towards an Integrated Neo-Vernacular Built Environment: Design guidelines for the living environments inspired by socio-cultural and environmental aspects QārratʾUm-Āṣaġīr Village, The Western Desert of Egypt Author: Nahla Nabil Mahmoud Makhlouf Date: Sept 2013
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Title: Assessing thermal comfort in secondary schools in Egypt Author: Omar Wanas Date: Sept 2013
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Title: Participatory Development Projects in Post-revolutionary Egypt – Partnering with Civil Society? Author: Pia Lorenz Date: Sept 2013
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Title: Refugee Setting and Urban Form and Governance: The Predicament of Syrian Refugees in Navigating Cairo’s Urban Spaces and the Complexities of Governance in Turbulent Times
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Title: Towards an Integrated Transport Planning Approach in Amman
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Title: Landscapes between Conservation and Development: Negotiating infrastructure development in agglomerations in mountainous areas in the Northwest of Tunisia
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Title: Cultural Tourism Planning Impacts on Saving Identity and Economic Development
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Title: Social Housing between Implementability and Affordability Towards an integrated model for providing affordable housing in Egypt
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Title: Real Estate Nationalism: The Market Substitute for the Palestinian State
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Title: Landscape Aesthetics and the Introduction of Solar Energy Farms in the Western Desert of Egypt: Visual Public Preference Evaluation in “Qarat Um Elsaghir” Village
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Title: Camp Cities between Planning and Practice: Mapping the Urbanisation of Zaatari Camp
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Title: Marginalized Citizen and the Right to the City: The Egyptian Slum Upgrading Approach in Ashash al Sudan, Giza
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Title: Assessing The Potentials of Multi-functional Urban Agriculture in Egypt: Towards Cultivating the New Urban Settlements “The Case of Al Sadat City”
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Title: Encouraging Bicycling as a Means of Sustainable Urban Transportation in Cairo
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Title: The Integration of Information Technologies in Urban Heritage Conservation in Egypt a Conceptual Framework for Using the Volunteered Geographic Information Approach as a Platform for Collaboration
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Title: Understanding the gap between heritage conservation and local development in Egypt: Towards an integrated strategic model for Pompey’s pillar and the Catacombs area in Alexandria
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Title: Shalatin (Egypt): Between Urbanism & Nomadism
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Title: Community Based Security of Tenure (Initial Framework for Squatter Areas in Cairo)
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Title: Contextualizing the Right to the City, Between Squatting and Adaptive Reuse. Learning From Amman and Cairo
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Title: Towards an Integrative Discourse on Traditional and Modern Building Techniques as Sustainable Alternative to Current Practices: The case of residential buildings in Egypt
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Title: Biophilic Design (Strategies for hospitals retrofit)
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Title: Climatic Sensitive Landscape Design: Enhancing the Microclimate of Public Schools Courtyards in Egypt
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Title: Public Spaces and Sectarian Tensions in Beirut; The Production of Space in the Context of Sectarianism and Neoliberalism Author: Irmtraud Eckart Date: Sept 2014
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Title: Knowledge Sharing in Urban Development Exploring the Networking Potential of Local Communities in Cairo Author: Katharina Frieling Date: Sept 2014
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Title: Towards a strategy for regaining cultural identity in the urban reconstruction of the war-ravaged city centre of Homs, Syria Author: Sana Kassouha Date: Sept 2014
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Title: Urban Implications of Palestinians Obtaining Israeli Citizenship in Jerusalem, Palestine Author: Tariq Nassar Date: Sept 2014
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Title: Urban Space and Politics of Transition in Contemporary Cairo Author: Mahy Mourad Nowier Date: Sept 2014
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Title: Integrating Local Ethnic Groups in the Process of the Regional Planning: The Case of the Nubian Village of Kostol-Komombo, Egypt
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Title: Processes Behind Regional Planning in Lebanon’s Hinterland: The Case of the Union of Municipalities of Jezzine and the Union of Municipalities of Tyr
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Title: The Urban Poor within the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Agenda:(The Cairo Urban Deprivation Index as an Alternative Operationalization)
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Title: Dynamics of Development in Rural Egypt to New Desert Communities: The Case of the Basaisa
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Title: Rethinking Relocation in the Context of Informal Areas: Critical Analysis of Processes and the Quality of Life: The Case of IstablAntar (Cairo)
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Title: Branding Cairo (un)intended: Influences on the German tourist‘s perception of Egypt‘s capital
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Title: Place Attachment of Different Influx Groups in West Amman, Jordan: The Case of Palestinians and Iraqis
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Title: Towards a Water Sensitive Development Strategy for Siwa Oasis
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Title: Resistive Urbanism in the Spatio-Genesis of Self-Awda: Spatial and Non-Spatial Variables of IDPs’ Self-Repatriations to Palestinian depopulated Villages
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Title: Ruins Of Urbanity: Rethinking the Prospective of Urban Voids for a Sustainable Urban Development with a Special Focus on Tunis
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Title: Connecting Urban Policy Making and Implementation: Case of Maspero, Cairo, Egypt
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Title: Towards Multi-functional Water-Harvesting Landscapes: The Case of Akoura
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Title: Host Communities between Solidarity and Hardship: The Trends of Housing Transformation in Border Cities Hosting Refugees: The Case of Mafraq City
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Title: Port Said - No Future without the Past Integrated Rehabilitation Concept for the Urban Heritage
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Title: “Kafr Wahb” Village as a Case of Social Innovation: Understanding Social Innovation in Rural Community Development in Egypt
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Title: The Relationship between Built Environment and Obesity: An Assessment of Cairo’s Obesogenic Environment
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Title: Rethinking the Urban Development Process in Egypt’s Informal Areas; User Based Analysis for Upgrading Projects Outputs Done in Manshiyat Nasser and Izbet Khairallah Areas in Cairo Author: Mohammed Fawzi Ragheb Hafez Mohammed Date: 2017
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Title: The Importance of Land Conversion for Urban Development Author: Anna Buchmann Date: September 2016
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Title: Upgrading Transportation Nodes To Enhance Potentialities Of Public Places In Greater Cairo Author: Ashraf Abouzeid Date: September 2016
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Title: Role of open spaces in enhancing resilience of Amman city Author: Dina Al Najjar Date: September 2016
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Title: The Role of Traditional Events in Heritage Preservation and Urban Regeneration: Case study of Alexandria Author: Hadir Hawash Date: September 2016
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Title: Towards a Win-Win situation between listed villas and owners’ economic Losses: Economic Diagnosis Author: Heba Hatem Abdelhalim Aggour Date: September 2016
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Title: Rooftops from Wasted to Scarce Resource; The Competition between Harvesting Crops and Solar Energy in Nasr City, Cairo Author: Mai Adel Fathy Marzouk Date: September 2016
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Title: Rethinking Halted Investments Exploring the Potential of Interim Use in Amman Author: Mohamed Al Jabii Date: September 2016
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Title: The role of sociocultural dynamics in the preservation of historical city centers: The case of Tunis’ Medina Author: Nader Khelifi Date: September 2016
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Title: Mapping the impact of women’s perceptual safety on public spaces: Investigating the relationship between gender, class, cultural centers and social relations in sha’bi districts in Cairo Author: Reeham Ebrahim Aly Sayed Date: September 2016
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Title: Sustainable strategies for urban renewal: Assessing the case of redevelopment in Military tera*, Addis Ababa Author: Semegnish Eshetu Gizaw Date: September 2016
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Title: Impacts of the New International Airport in the Sacred Valley – Peru Opportunities in land use- and urban density planning Author: Stephanie Gil Zacarias Date: September 2016
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Title: Integrating Sustainable Energy Solutions into Urban Design in Cairo Photovoltaic Panels Case Study: Al-Rehab City Author: Tamer Aly Kamel Date: September 2016
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Title: Urban stress relief in heritage sites as a sustaining approach: The case of Port Said Author: Yasmin Shata Date: September 2016
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Title: Rapid Growth Dynamics In Sensitive Urban Ecosystems: The Case of Siwa Oasis Author: Yasmine A. Halawa Date: September 2016
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Title: Understanding the Historic Urban Landscape of Siwa oasis: The relationship between human activity and the built environment in the formation of urban landscapes Author: Aly s. Elsayed Date: September 2016
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Title: Social cohesion and urban commons; Urban commons as a socio-cohesive paradigm: the case of study of Stuttgart urban commons: Repair Cafe Stuttgart and Casa Schuetzenplatz Author: Mariana del Rosario Lugo Gonzalez Date: 2017
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Title: Comprehensive Medium-Scale Interventions in the Public Space of Central Areas to Enhance Public LifeHow the implementation of Real-life Experiments can lead to Public Life Enhancement. The case of Schützenplatz, Stuttgart Author: Jesús Antonio Martínez ZárateCMSI Date: 2017
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Title: You-Design; Empowering Selfbuilt Communities Case of Istabl Antar, Cairo, Egypt Author: Hebatullah Hendawy Date: 2017
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Title: Placemaking and the Social Production of Urban Places in Informality
Author: Ana A. Báez Sarita
Date: September 2017
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Title: Stimulating Private Sector for Urban Settlement Redevelopment in Syria - Case Study: Homs City
Author: Bassel Alhaffar
Date: September 2017
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Title: The Kiosk and the Public Realm
Author: Danny Khilla
Date: September 2017
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Title: Alternative Housing Solutions to Integrate Refugees into Hosting Communities; Case Study: Jordan Affordable Housing Programme
Author: Khaled Elmansi
Date: September 2017
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Title: Urban Growth in Greater Cairo Rent-based and rent-seeking uneven geographical development in Egypt’s capital
Author: Manuel Heckel
Date: September 2017
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Title: Water Bodies Within the Metropolitan Cities: Understanding the Urbanization Process Around Lakes &Lagoons ‘shores in Greater Tunis, Towards sustainability
Author: Mariem Brahmi
Date: September 2017
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Title: Spatial Control Repercussions on Social Dynamics; The case of Palestine
Author: Marwa Tina
Date: September 2017
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Title: Collaborative Urban Practices in Greater Cairo; Understanding the Impact of Commercial Sharing Practices on the City
Author: Noran Abdou
Date: September 2017
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Title: Rethinking Unbuilt Space within Neighborhoods in Muscat; Mapping community planning across rapid urbanization
Author: Rowa Mohamed Elamin Elzain
Date: September 2017
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Title: Dwelling Practices and Cultural Appropriation of Domestic Spaces
Author: Sundus Sherif Abdelrahman
Date: September 2017
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Title: Mapping Places of Memory in Post-Conflict Cities; A Study on Placing Memory Phenomenon in Beirut
Author: Zuhar Aljundi
Date: September 2017
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Title: Understanding Egyptian Social Housing Squatting Phenomenon Post January 2011; The Production of Space in Elmouhtalla
Author: Amr Adel Abotawila
Date: September 2017
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Title: Transferability of Civil Society Initiatives Examining the Process and Affecting Aspects of Transnational Transfers
Author: Eva Sule
Date: September 2017
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Title: Community Resilience for Coastal Peripheral Areas Development in Nuweiba, South Sinai; Towards an Integrated Sustainable Development in Nuweiba, Sinai Peninsula
Author: Maha Ahmed Fathy Abdel Aziz Basha
Date: September 2017
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Title: Urban Interventions in Response to the Presence of Refugees: The Case of Syrian Refugees in 6th October City, Greater Cairo Region
Author: Salma Maged Maher Abdelrahman
Date: September 2017
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Title: Bolstering socio-ecological resilience in Greater Cairo Region’s peri-urban agriculture pockets; Strategies for Local Economic Development and Improved Food Security
Author: Dorothy H. Estrada
Date: September 2017
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Title: Re-thinking the Vibrant life on the Sidewalk: Mapping the Spatial Relations of Informal Practices on Cairo sidewalks The Case of Haroun Al-Rashid and Alexandria Streets,
Heliopolis, Cairo
Author: Salsabil Ahmed Hesham Youssef Aly Fahmy
Date: April 2018
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Title : Opportunities for Restoring Local Livelihood in Tourist City: The Case of Public Spaces in Historic City of Venice
Author: Yu-Hsin Hsiao (Sandy)
Date: March 2018
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Title: Climate Change-Resilient Productive Landscapes: An Assessment of Climate Adaptation for the Community of Cerro Negro, Nicoya, Costa Rica
Author: Giancarlo Munoz Ramirez
Date: September 2018
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Title: Retrofitting Urbanism: Participatory development of Industrial Brownfields
Author: Kh M Abdullah
Date: September 2018
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Title: Seasonal Cities: Temporal Changes in the Urban Metabolism of Alexandria, Egypt
Author: Andres Mauricio Estrada Bolivar
Date: September 2018
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Title: Human Behaviour in Spaces around Metro Stations in Cairo: An approach towards improving the metro-catchment area to fulfil users’ needs
Author: Mennat-Allah Mohamed Fathy Aref
Date: September 2018
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Title: Towards Eco-houses: The potential of applying eco architecture principles between technical and behavioral dimensions - The case El Gari village, Siwa
Author: Nojud Ashour
Date: September 2018
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Title: Pedestrianizing Streets in Amman, Jordan: Contextualized Criteria for Optimum Street Selection
Author: Sally Al-Ejeilat
Date: September 2018
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Title: Towards a Water Sensitive City:Integrated Sustainable Stormwater Management in Alexandria
Author: Saumil Patel
Date: September 2018
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Title: Strangers’ temporal conviviality and social production of space
Tracing refugees’ and locals’ temporal interactions with and within open public space in Stuttgart’s neighborhoods
Author: Simone Gretsch
Date: September 2018
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Title: On the power of disposition in smart city development – Berlin as a case study
Author: Felippe Alves Piva
Date: September 2019
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Title: Karachi and the making of a woman: A gender analysis of the city’s public buses
Author: Ferya Ilyas
Date: September 2019
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Title: Mitigating Urban Heat Island Effect in Neighborhoods of Tirana
Author: Malvina Prolla
Date: September 2020
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Title: Healing the city: exploring the spatial determinants of Tuberculosis in the slums of Lima
Author: Mauricio Gilbonio Bocanegra
Date: September 2019
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Title: Potentials of Integration Between Life-Cycle Assessment And Building Information Modeling: Triggers, Obstacles and Recommendations for Promoting Efficient Building in Egypt
Author: Noha Mohamed Adel
Date: September 2019
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Title: Restoring the water balance: Building resilient communities towards more efficient stormwater management in San José, Costa Rica
Author: Paola Meneses
Date: September 2019
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Title: Unique Plants and Grouping Strategies Promoting Cairo’s Streets air Quality
Author: Ahmed Ramy Kassem Mohamed Youssef
Date: February 2021
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Title: Towards an Optimized Street Design for Walkability
Author: Amr Salah El Din
Date: November 2020
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Title: Economic Reform and Urban Development
Author: Azeemah Owais
Date: October 2020
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Title: Sidewalks Informality: Impacts of Transgressive Informal Practices on People’s Perceived Walkability: The Case of Downtown Streets, Cairo
Author: Dina Alaa
Date: September 2020
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Title: Knowledge Co-production: An Innovation model Towards Institutionalization for the Case of Cairo: Rethinking the Relationship between knowledge and Action through the Case of Cairo Urban Initiatives
Author: Farah Hisham Abdelfattah Elbehairy
Date: February 2021
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Title: Towards an Integrated Mobility System; The First and Last Mile Solutions
Author: Hassan Mohamed
Date: September 2020
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Title: The Impact of the Required Metro Infrastructure in a Fragmented City: The Case of Villa el Salvador and its Metro Station
Author: Hector Flores Timoteo
Date: September 2020
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Title: The Relation of Cairo’s Society with the Consumption of Single Use Plastic (SUP) and Plastic Waste Production
Author: Laura Diaz Ospina
Date: September 2020
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Title: An Evaluation of the Usage of Environmentally Friendly Bricks for Housing in Egypt
Author: Malek Amr Mohamed Refaat Elhamawy
Date: March 2021
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Title: Urban Waterscapes and Water Service Provision in Informal Settlements
Author: Maria Valverde
Date: September 2020
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Title: Swipe for Urban Safety
Author: Mridula Grag
Date: September 2020
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Title: The Edges Between Us: Evolving Territorial Behaviors in Cairo’s Urban Landscape
Author: Nagla El Khoreiby
Date: September 2020
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Title: Rethinking [Urban] Land Value
Author: Pamela Gil
Date: September 2020
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Title: Contextualizing the Notion of Secondary Cities in Egypt
Author: Rana Assem
Date: September 2020
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Title: The Effects of Elevated Transportation Infrastructure on the Urban Environment
Author: Sara Abu Henedy
Date: September 2020
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Title: The Built Environment and Children Independent Spatial Mobility
Author: Sara Zakareya
Date: September 2020
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Title: Waste from Stone Industry as Cement Additive towards a Reduced Carbon Footprint of Concrete
Author: Yousef Mostafa Abd El Khalek El Shafie
Date: February 2021
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Title: Urbanization and its impact on biodiversity: Flora biodiversity assessment in relation to urban disturbance along the Wangchhu riparian zone, Thimphu: Bhutan
Author: Kezang Dorji
Date: September 2021
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Title: Towards an enhanced people-place relationship Investigating the factors affecting place attachment in Cairo’s neighborhoods
Author: Laila AlaaEldin AbdelRahman Saleh Mohamed
Date: September 2021
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Title: Rethinking the Design of learning Spaces Post COVID-19
Author: Mariam Khaled Samih Ahmed Hamdy
Date: September 2021
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Title: The Right to the City and Gender-Sensitive Urban Planning The role of women-led community networks in informal settlements in the district of Carabayllo, Lima
Author: Melanie Solange Nogales Quinde
Date: September 2021
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Title: Assessing the suitability of residential compounds’ landscape to the Egyptian context. The Use of green lawns between socioeconomic and environmental forces
Author: Salma Mohamed Abdelmounem Mohamed Abdelaal
Date: June 2022
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Title: Evaluating Walkability Across Contemporary Neighborhoods in Islamabad-Rawalpindi Metropolitan Area, Pakistan
Author: Saman Tariq
Date: September 2021
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Title: Rethinking School Design to meet 21st Century Learning Demands: The case of Egyptian Governmental Schools
Author: Sandra Nabih Samir Labib
Date: September 2021
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Title: Women’s Mobility in the City:The influence of gendered household division of labor on mobility of working-women in Kampung Kunir, West Jakarta, Indonesia
Author: Usie Fauzia Anniza
Date: September 2021
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Title: Immigration and social integration Approaches from immigrant civil society and the case of Lisbon, Portugal
Author:Vanessa García Otero
Date: September 2021
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