TY - BOOK AU - Bedour Ahmad Abdalla Hemeid AU - Basil Kamel , AU - Raghad Mofeed , TI - Universities as cultural venues for community interaction : : The case of university campus in greater Cairo / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Bedour Ahmad Abdalla Hemeid , KW - Public space KW - Social activity center KW - University Campus N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architectural Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - Cairo has witnessed a tremendous urban expansion of private Universities in Cairo in addition to the extisting public Universities which affected the current urban configuration of the city . Those campuses became key political elements as urban partitions either through their physical locations or even through their pattern of evolution . Which automatically separated the academic communiti apart from the city acting like a colonized fortress UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -