Productive urban landscape: Exploring urban agriculture multi-functionality practices to approach genuine quality of life in gated communities in Greater Cairo Region
Despite having roots through history, gated communities have emerged as a new urban phenomenon facing the effects of urbanization. They became a dominant typology for achieving better quality of life (QOL), especially in Greater Cairo Region (GCR). This typology of urban development has become the t...
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| author | Doaa K. Hassan Mohammed Hewidy Mohamed A. El Fayoumi |
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| description | Despite having roots through history, gated communities have emerged as a new urban phenomenon facing the effects of urbanization. They became a dominant typology for achieving better quality of life (QOL), especially in Greater Cairo Region (GCR). This typology of urban development has become the target of many Egyptian families. Thus, capitalism emerges at the node where urbanization crisis, QOL and gated communities meet. This appears in the marketing of gated communities that tackles landscapes as one of its commodities as a response to the demand for better QOL. This aim will be attained via theoretical and practical methods. Theoretically, correlating the concepts of QOL, urban agriculture, and local gated communities landscape architecture practices was carried out. Then, two models of questionnaires were pursued targeting gated communities’ residents and practitioners, in addition to field visits and observation. The study ended by recommendations to enhance the QOL domains via following all productive urban landscape. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7923cbf18571497287116571b690a4a32022-12-22T03:00:59ZengElsevierAin Shams Engineering Journal2090-44792022-05-01133101607Productive urban landscape: Exploring urban agriculture multi-functionality practices to approach genuine quality of life in gated communities in Greater Cairo RegionDoaa K. Hassan0Mohammed Hewidy1Mohamed A. El Fayoumi2Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, EgyptDepartment of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, P.O. Box 68, Hadayek Shobra 11241, +201024795754, Cairo, Egypt; Corresponding author.Department of Urban Design and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, EgyptDespite having roots through history, gated communities have emerged as a new urban phenomenon facing the effects of urbanization. They became a dominant typology for achieving better quality of life (QOL), especially in Greater Cairo Region (GCR). This typology of urban development has become the target of many Egyptian families. Thus, capitalism emerges at the node where urbanization crisis, QOL and gated communities meet. This appears in the marketing of gated communities that tackles landscapes as one of its commodities as a response to the demand for better QOL. This aim will be attained via theoretical and practical methods. Theoretically, correlating the concepts of QOL, urban agriculture, and local gated communities landscape architecture practices was carried out. Then, two models of questionnaires were pursued targeting gated communities’ residents and practitioners, in addition to field visits and observation. The study ended by recommendations to enhance the QOL domains via following all productive urban landscape.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447921003725UrbanizationMultifunctional landscape architectureUrban agricultureProductive urban landscapeGated communities |
| spellingShingle | Doaa K. Hassan Mohammed Hewidy Mohamed A. El Fayoumi Productive urban landscape: Exploring urban agriculture multi-functionality practices to approach genuine quality of life in gated communities in Greater Cairo Region Ain Shams Engineering Journal Urbanization Multifunctional landscape architecture Urban agriculture Productive urban landscape Gated communities |
| title | Productive urban landscape: Exploring urban agriculture multi-functionality practices to approach genuine quality of life in gated communities in Greater Cairo Region |
| title_full | Productive urban landscape: Exploring urban agriculture multi-functionality practices to approach genuine quality of life in gated communities in Greater Cairo Region |
| title_fullStr | Productive urban landscape: Exploring urban agriculture multi-functionality practices to approach genuine quality of life in gated communities in Greater Cairo Region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Productive urban landscape: Exploring urban agriculture multi-functionality practices to approach genuine quality of life in gated communities in Greater Cairo Region |
| title_short | Productive urban landscape: Exploring urban agriculture multi-functionality practices to approach genuine quality of life in gated communities in Greater Cairo Region |
| title_sort | productive urban landscape exploring urban agriculture multi functionality practices to approach genuine quality of life in gated communities in greater cairo region |
| topic | Urbanization Multifunctional landscape architecture Urban agriculture Productive urban landscape Gated communities |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447921003725 |
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