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Abstract
This thesis addresses the crucial need to revisit criteria of design for urban streets in reaching livable communities. Egyptian cities, urban sprawl has been outward and upward. Consequently, urbanization phenomena have large peri-urban areas with a simple configuration of forms and land use with poor infrastructure, public facilities, essential services and public transport. All that and a lot of other issues in traffic jams are recognized during different periods in Egyptian streets, especially in Cairo.
The aim of this thesis is to reach norms and standards concluded from studying international approaches and different design guide manuals that accommodate Cairo’s streets to be livable, and claim them back to people. This work scans relative literature to figure out the international norms of street design, uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to investigate three cases from Cairo: Nasr City, Hadaek El Quba and El-Shrouk city.
The results concluded a checklist for norms and standards that should be followed in designing urban streets. The comparative analysis of given examples from international paradigms figured out that Egyptian street design in some places is somehow apart away from the international thought. The author here tested results from the international approaches through analyzing in-depth the three cases of Cairo. The main conclusion, was that, residential streets can be dangerous and uninviting places due to the threat of speeding traffic and putting vehicles first. Urban streets are more than a mere mobility axis. Instead, roads are public spaces that can promote social interaction, active living, and community identity. Streets can make entire neighborhoods attractive or unattractive place to live, and that is the whole idea of this research and the main reason for going farther in studying livable streets, especially urban neighborhood street.