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2022-01-10 https://www.journalpublicspace.org/index.php/jps

Public Space and Placemaking in African Cities

2022-01-10

S P E C I A L   I S S U E
to be launched at 11th World Urban Forum in Katowice, 26-30 June 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS

This special issue on 'Public Space and Placemaking in African Cities' of The Journal of Public Space invites writings, reflections, research, case studies and photo essays related to the cities and public spaces of the African continent. We invite scholars, designers, planners, city practitioners, historians and writers to offer critical and innovative contributions to understanding meanings and practices in plural and diverse African spaces, contexts, climates, regional and local scales, and histories.

This special issue collects both full research articles (max 8.000 words), and shorter essays, case studies and photo essays (max 3.000 words).

This issue will contribute to the establishment of the Centre on African Public Spaces (CAPS), a project initiated by the City of Johannesburg (South Africa) in collaboration with other African cities, universities and community advocacy groups. As a Pan-African urban lab for public space, CAPS will be a home and resource to a community of urban practitioners and thinkers, students, scholars and civil society activists dedicated to connect, exchange experiences, advance knowledge, share resources, grow expertise and mobilize on a wide range of relevant local, regional and global issues. 

 

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Current Issue

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
    View Abstract PDF
  • On the Meanings and Uses of Urban Space in the Arab City: An Historical Perspective
    5-8
    Nezar AlSayyad
    View Abstract PDF
Space
  • Urban Elements in the Saudi Arabian Najd Region and their Influence on Creating Threshold Spaces
    9-24
    Mohammed Mashary Alnaim
    View Abstract PDF
  • Public Space as a Venue for Peacebuilding in Lebanon?
    25-46
    Aseel Naamani, Ruth Simpson
    View Abstract PDF
  • 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
    View Abstract PDF
  • The Redemptive Potential of the Street. A Multi-angular Analysis of Dubai’s Pedestrian Infrastructure
    67-94
    Lamia Abdelfattah, Filippo Bazzoni, Rawad Choubassi
    View Abstract PDF
  • New Typologies of Contemporary Shopping Malls in Egypt
    95-122
    Karim Wagih Fawzi Youssef
    View Abstract PDF
  • 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
    View Abstract PDF
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
    View Abstract PDF
  • Fostering Interactions at Public Open Spaces
    167-184
    Arushi Malhotra, Ranjana Dobriyal
    View Abstract PDF
  • Post-development Practices of Public Space, Between Cohabitation and "Domination" of New Atmospheres
    185-202
    Abdellah Moussalih
    View Abstract PDF
  • What Happened to the Public Spaces of the Arab World?
    203-214
    Tarek Fouani
    View Abstract PDF
  • Khobar City Plan and the New Public Space in Saudi Arabia
    215-234
    Atef Alshehri, Lulu Almana
    View Abstract PDF
Viewpoint
  • Public Spaces in the Arab Region
    235-240
    Elaf Raslan, Lubna Shaheen
    View Abstract PDF
  • Heritage in the Street: Megawra | BEC’s Athar Lina Initiative in Historic Cairo
    241-256
    May al-Ibrashy
    View Abstract PDF
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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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