City visions : methodology and creative approaches / Amira Abdelrazik Aly Hassanin Elbortokaly ; Supervised Ahmed Mohamed Salah Eldin Ouf , Ahmed Mohamed Saeed Shalby

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architectural Engineering

The thesis discusses the concept of city visions and how each city could create its own vision which built on different realities and different challenges. The purpose of such analysis is to ground the vision into reality, to provide an understanding of the {u2018}starting blocks{u2019} when cities are looking forward to their futures and to address creative and effective approaches including identifying some categories of visions of the future carried out by different case studies ( Middle East cities), and suggest a wider overview of how cities see themselves in the future .also discussing achieving balance between internal challenges of expressing the shared rooted values of their communities ideology and the external challenges of global competition to reposition themselves in the global context ,All dimensions that have been discussed tended to be elaborated in one analytical framework that can analyse any city vision regardless the differences of approaches that had been used

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