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Corresponding Author

Elmanzlawi, Alaa

Subject Area

Architectural Engineering

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

The urban environment represents to man the field which he lives and practices his different activities in. Man has managed to create an environment to suit all his requirements due to his accumulated experiences, leading to legislations and standards to regulate the process of preservation and planning for this urban environment, and whoever follows the develop in the urban environment in Egyptian cities notices the positive reflection on the traditional architectural heritage and how it sustains the human life with its different requirements, and also the environmental deterioration experienced by the new urban environment due to serious failure in applying legislations and standards of planning and executing them from the authorities in charge. Knowing that the main objective of developing a system of urban legislation, is to find the tools available to the competent public authority which has the participation in planning and directing urban development operations and what relates to it of social and economic development with a focus on improving their efficiency and under what distinguishes it of the impact on individuals and communities, in addition to developing programs and development plans leading to creating and the evolution for a change. The research concluded from extrapolating the case of contemporary urban environment in the island of Zamalek to the lack of any system aims to achieve the distinctive character of the contemporary urbanism, which means that the dominant feature is the inconsistency and chaos, leading to the presence of an urbanism which is inappropriate with social factors and not compatible with the functional aspects which clearly appeared in the disintegration of social relations, and increasing manifestations of social isolation which led to a band between them, and the loss of aesthetics, which represents the repetition of interfaces on the streets, making it the most boring and monotonous, and the loss of identity and distinctive character to it, that is, it can be said that these laws and legislations, Overall, did not help to put an end to the problems of urban island, and also the access to sustainable architecture which accomplishes the needs and requirements of society and thus achieve the continuity of the identity of the community stemming from his commitment to his faith, traditions and culture

Keywords

البيئة العمرانية; التشريعات العمرانية - الاحتياجات الإنساني

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