الفهرس 
RESEARCH ARGUMENT
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Abstract
ue to the urgent need for neighborhoods and communities to be rethought and
reconfigured in order to be sustained for the posterity, and through the common
definitions of sustainable development, this research tackles the subject matter of
Sustainable Urban Landscapes in neighbourhoods as an application of
sustainable urban design that transforms resources into a living environment with
minimum stresses on the surrounding environment and an enhancement to
human life socially, economically and ecologically.
Urban-Biological analogies were made earlier to manifest the similarities
between the human body and the urban context. Those analogies were helpful in
exporting some theories from the science of biology to the urban design and
planning field.
Extending the analogies made earlier by researchers between the human cell
and the neighbourhood, the research seeks to examine if the health
characteristics of the human cell apply to the urban neighbourhood. In other
words the research seeks to examine if the sustainability of the neighbourhood
depends on the degree of its self-sufficiency, self-correction, regeneration and
dynamical adaptation to the environment, as it is the case in the human cell.
The research discusses and evaluates the principles that turns the resources in
the neighbourhood, both natural (water, air, and green-structure) and man-made
(movement network and land use), into developments closer to sustainability .
Each principle when applied reflects on the urban landscapes in the
neighbourhood. The research discusses several sustainable urban landscapes in
various neighbourhoods and evaluates them from all sustainability aspects, then
analyzes the relationship between them and the healthy cell characteristics.
The research helps to reach to a better understanding of the sustainability issue
from the urban design point of view. The research also helps to draw a tentative
image of the sustainable urban neighbourhood and provides a proposal of a new
approach which might help to reach the healthy sustainable urban
neighbourhood. Testing the applicability of the proposed approach was provided
on some selected urban neighbourhoods in Egypt as a verification of the validity
of the proposed approach.