disciplines.

It holds the history of urban design in Western and

American literature. It extends to the content analysis of several
issues that are tangible with the Egyptian context. The research
approaches are discussed to find out contemporary outcomes
and theoretical contributions to the discussed topics. Implicitly, the
objective is to give a line, theoretical and practical, to reload the
Egyptian metropolitan cities. The urban reloading may benefit both
the people and the place.

Abeer Elshater obtained her BSc in urban design and spatial

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This book presents six working manuscripts on urban design

planning in 1999 from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. In 2009,

she received her Ph.D. in urban design from the same university.
Since then, she has acted as an assistant professor and then an
associate professor at Ain Shams University, teaching and supervising
multidisciplinary topics. She has worked on several international
research projects with international universities. She has published
numerous papers and authored and co-edited five books (under

Quality Assurance Unit CIQAU in Ain Shams University.

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publishing/revised). She is a member of Continues Improvement of