Street morphology as a starting point for understanding sexual harassment

Incidents of sexual harassment are unequally distributed in the Greater Cairo Region because cities, generally speaking, have uneven patterns of movement and activity with higher rates of pedestrian and vehicular movement and activities in some quarters than others. Central areas usually have concentrations of people and activity, hence higher...

Spatial accessibility and commercial land use patterns planned versus unplanned areas in Cairo

This paper shows the research results from a research project investigating the relationship between spatial configuration and the distribution of commercial activities in throughout planned and informal urban environments. The research methodology uses space syntax analysis as well as statistical calculations. The spatial accessibility model...

Space and protest: A tale of two Egyptian squares

Protests and revolts take place in public space. How they can be controlled or how protests develop depend on the physical layout of the built environment. This study reveals the relationship between urban space and protest for two Egyptian squares: Tahrir Square and Rabaa Al-Adawiya in Cairo. For analysis, the research uses space syntax method....

Beyond informality: Traders as space experts in their own informal settlements

The spatial layout of built environments influences the distribution of commercial activities. As literature has shown, commercial activities can enhance the process of urban consolidation of informal areas (Hillier et al, 2000; Shafiei, 2007). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the correlation between spatial factors and the...

Understanding urban segregation in Cairo: The social and spatial logic of a fragmented city

As it turns out, social factors are significantly correlated with the spatial structure of the street grid on a metropolitan scale level. On a local scale, disadvantaged areas have a high locally integrated spatial structure, but lack accessibility to the surrounding areas and the whole city. Seemingly, the connection between a main route...

The socio-economic implications of the spatial configuration in greater Cairo metropolitan area