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Vol 6 No 1 (2021): Re-visioning Places of Public Gathering in the Contemporary Arab Urbanism
Cover image: Public space in Dubai. Picture by Mona Helmy
Cover image: Public space in Dubai. Picture by Mona Helmy

Guest Editor: Mona Helmy
Managing Editor: Luisa Bravo
Assistant Editor: Merham M. Keleg 
Published: 2021-04-30
Editorial
  • Re-visioning Places of Public Gathering in the Contemporary Arab Urbanism
    1-4
    Mona Helmy
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  • On the Meanings and Uses of Urban Space in the Arab City: An Historical Perspective
    5-8
    Nezar AlSayyad
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Space
  • Urban Elements in the Saudi Arabian Najd Region and their Influence on Creating Threshold Spaces
    9-24
    Mohammed Mashary Alnaim
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  • Public Space as a Venue for Peacebuilding in Lebanon?
    25-46
    Aseel Naamani, Ruth Simpson
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  • Investigating Users Changing Needs in Relation to Non-designed or Unplanned Public Spaces in Cairo
    47-66
    Joseph Milad Namar, Moahmed A. Salheen, Ayat Ismail
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  • The Redemptive Potential of the Street. A Multi-angular Analysis of Dubai’s Pedestrian Infrastructure
    67-94
    Lamia Abdelfattah, Filippo Bazzoni, Rawad Choubassi
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  • New Typologies of Contemporary Shopping Malls in Egypt
    95-122
    Karim Wagih Fawzi Youssef
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  • The Segregation in Access to Spaces for Urban Activities during COVID-19 Pandemic in Relation to Gated Communities in Egypt
    123-134
    Hellen Aziz, Salma Ellakany
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Society
  • COVID-19 Pandemic: Between Public Space and Users’ Behaviours
    135-166
    Hassan Elmouelhi, Sara Nowar, Hellen Aziz, Nada Abdrabou, Ahmed Mokhtar Gaballah, Tayseer Khairy
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  • Fostering Interactions at Public Open Spaces
    167-184
    Arushi Malhotra, Ranjana Dobriyal
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  • Post-development Practices of Public Space, Between Cohabitation and "Domination" of New Atmospheres
    185-202
    Abdellah Moussalih
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  • What Happened to the Public Spaces of the Arab World?
    203-214
    Tarek Fouani
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  • Khobar City Plan and the New Public Space in Saudi Arabia
    215-234
    Atef Alshehri, Lulu Almana
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Viewpoint
  • Public Spaces in the Arab Region
    235-240
    Elaf Raslan, Lubna Shaheen
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  • Heritage in the Street: Megawra | BEC’s Athar Lina Initiative in Historic Cairo
    241-256
    May al-Ibrashy
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"Public space in cities is a common good, meant to be open, inclusive and democratic, a fundamental human right for everybody."

Dr Luisa Bravo
The Journal of Public Space, Founder and Editor in Chief
City Space Architecture, Founding Member and President
(from the statement submitted at the 26th UN-Habitat Governing Council held in Nairobi, Kenya, 8-12 May 2017)
Stand up for Public Space!  |  UN-Habitat Global Urban Lecture by Dr Luisa Bravo (click here)  |  A global campaign launched at the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador, 2016 (click here)

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