Prioritizing brownfield sites for establishing green areas : A landscape planning approach / Rana Mostafa Ahmed Hammam ; Supervised Mohammed Refaat , Heba Elfouly

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning - Department of Urban and Design

Implementing urban green spaces is considered as one of the ways of achieving sustainable urban development. Cairo is having a green space area of 1.5 m2/capita, which is too low according to the WHO. On the other hand, there are brownfield sites in Greater Cairo Region that comprise an area of 2,484,305 m2. Brownfields have a great potential for greening the city through establishing green open spaces on its sites. However, selecting and prioritizing high potential brownfield sites is essential for the strategic use of these limited resources.There are different projects of greening brownfield sites worldwide, but they were ad-hoc projects, they were established without a systematic approach for selecting those brownfield sites.Therefore, this research is concerned with constructing a systematic categorization process of brownfield sites to be transformed into green areas.Hence, a conceptual theoretical framework reflecting the international discourse is constructed. This framework includes a set of brownfield site's indicators for establishing green areas, the evaluation criteria corresponding to these indicators and the ranking methodology. Then this conceptual theoretical framework is adapted with the local context through an empirical study.This empirical study includes semi-structured interviews carried out with Egyptian Experts and Practitioners. In addition, a cross-sectional study was carried out applying the proposed evaluation criteria on selected brownfield sites in Cairo

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