ORIGINAL ARTICLES Towards Understanding Different Shopping Architectural Characters in Cairo (original) (raw)
This paper is a temptation toward a better understanding of commercial built environments in Cairo. This study is meant to set out in which way different types of shopping built environments affect the pattern of shopping in town centers. The paper claims that a development of this sort can be explained best through a comparative analysis. The way in which a shopping road is imposed upon a street grid and the specific manner in which this road is connected to the relevant streets decides upon the resulting pattern of shops. The paper tends to describe the physical features that define the character or image of three different commercial streets in Cairo as a whole: El Moezz street in Old Cairo, El Lakkany street in Heliopolis and El Salah Salem or Orouba street in Nasr City. The understanding of shopping built environment in Cairo includes the study of surrounding buildings, streets and walking paths. Better shopping environment policies help support and implement land use, encourag...
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