TY - BOOK AU - Mai Ehab Mohamed Ezzat AU - Ahmed Mohamed Amin , AU - Amr Mostafa Elhalafawy , TI - Outdoor public spaces between place - making and placelessness : : The case of Egypt / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mai Ehab Mohamed Ezzat , KW - Outdoor spaces KW - Placelessness KW - Placemaking N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architecture; Issued also as CD N2 - designing spaces and buildings that can fit anywhere resulted in the new phenomena of placelessness . This phenomenon clearly expresses the loss of cultural identity of cities and their special character in the globalization era . Restoring a sense of place to modern life also offers an answer to one of the most pressing cultural questions of our time : the diminishment of local character customs and color in an age of one - size - fits - all globalization ER -