Urban Laws in Harmony or at Odds With Knowledge-Based Urban Policies

The UN Habitat New Urban Agenda deals with cities as an opportunity rather than a threat. Moreover, at the heart of every UN Habitat report you can find the call for knowledge and evidence-based policies as well as the call for reforming housing regulations and norms. However, an observer on Egypt's urban policies and regulations might find them at odds with each other. This chapter will start by briefly listing the major knowledge-based recommendations by UN Habitat, providing a brief history of Egypt's modern urban laws and policies accompanied by explanations of certain social factors. Finally, Egypt's current urban laws will be studied and evaluated in light of the above-mentioned recommendations.

Transformation Opportunities Toward Knowledge-Based Urban Development and Its Challenges

The current research discusses opportunities and challenges of knowledge-based urban development in Egypt, aims to monitor the actual opportunities provided by Egyptian policies for knowledge-based urban development, and highlights their most important challenges. The research relied on the impact assessment methodology, the opinion of some experts, analyzing secondary data, literature review, and statistical reports to track the paths of changes in knowledge-based development policies and their applications during the third millennium to reveal the most important challenges and constraints facing the experiences of knowledge cities and its precincts in the Egyptian society. The research concluded some recommendations to confront these challenges and push forward toward strengthening knowledge-based urban development in Egypt, based on what came from critical review f literature, theoretical perspectives, and policies and experiences of many countries of the world in this field.

Cultural Creativity and Social Inclusion in Creative Cities

According to the theoretical framework, this chapter examines the role of cultural capital in achieving social inclusion in creative cities and discussing the impact of creative cultural economy and cultural diversity in achieving knowledge-based urban development requirements. The author relies on showing the tangible and intangible forms of cultural capital represented by the urban and cultural assets possessed by the new administrative capital of Egypt (study model). The author then submits an analysis of the strategic urban cultural policies in an attempt to predict a set of preliminary indicators related to the possible forms of social and cultural inclusion and the anticipation of the social, cultural, and economic impacts of cultural creativity on the quality of life and Human security in creative cities.

Transformation Requirements of Creative Clusters in Egypt to Competitive Agglomerations

This chapter discusses the issue of creative clusters in the Egyptian society and highlights the most important challenges and obstacles that hinder them from achieving a global competitive advantage. The present research is an exploratory research, following the methodology of re-analysis, literature review, and analysis of ready data. The research used the SWOT)method to analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The data of the methodological methods used in the research were analyzed on three levels: Macro (Egyptian society), Mizo (creative clusters), and Micro (workers and stakeholders). The main question is: What are the transformation requirements of creative clusters in Egypt to achieve competitive agglomerations? The research came out with some recommendations to enhance and activate the performance of Egyptian creative clusters to compete globally.

The Creative Class and the Shift Towards the Knowledge Economy in Egypt

This chapter discusses the role of the creative class in the shift towards a knowledge economy in Egypt and aims to know whether the Egyptian society has an effective creative class capable of creating knowledge, disseminating it and employing it, and solving society's problems in line with the nature of the knowledge economy. This is done by spotlight on the changes in economic patterns and employment development in Egypt, revealing the emergence of a creative class that works as a driver to push the Egyptian economy to shift towards a knowledge economy, and illuminating the most important challenges that hinder its performance and effectiveness. The research follows a method of re-analysis, review literature, analysis of secondary data, and available statistics. The research came out with some recommendations which activate the performance of the creative class to shift towards a knowledge-based economy and global competition.

Structure and Functions of Cosmopolitan as a Symbol of Creative Cities

There is hardly a subject that has been more inspirational for the historian medievalists than urban communities. In order to understand the life of cities and towns during the Middle Ages, it is important to define authority and property as related to urban space, and see the interplay between these two notions these issues are not new in the European the legal aspects of ownership and the operation of urban real-estate market. Yet there are very few comparative studies on the European cities, historiographies, especially in the recent years. Moreover, not too much research has been done on the relationship between property and the different levels of authority. .

Towards Creative Mixed-Use Axes in the Upper Middle Class Residential Zones in Cairo Metropolitan Context

Mixed-use development is one of the applications for achieving sustainability goals and quality of life in cities, and one of the creative city tangible characteristics indicators as well. Mixed-use approach was adopted in development strategies for two global examples in this chapter. This study sheds light on the unplanned generated mixed-use axes in upper middle class residential zones in Cairo, the paradigm in which they have been formed and the factors leading to the current mixed-use axes, and their effects on the quality of life for the same urban contexts, how might the stakeholders' needs be achieved without urban deterioration, how these axes could be creative places, and the importance of community involvement in urban development and management processes. A field survey of three local case studies will answer these inquiries in this chapter. Expected results will set guidelines for mixed-use axes in upper middle class residential zones to enhance the quality of life. These guidelines could be applied to transform/design the existing/new cities to be creative cities.

Third-Spaces and the Creation of Socio-Spatial Identity

This chapter provides a polite critique of the conventional ways of thinking about space and the intertwined dialectics of the socio-spatial narratives. Conventionally, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) main document on the Creative Cities Network (UCCN) emphasizes two crucial pillars of sustainable development and urban regeneration which are creativity and culture. The first term deals with creative cities and urban areas, while the second addresses culture as the human product that takes either a tangible or an intangible form. Regarding the meaning of activities in contemporary human society, one of the aims of this chapter is to decode the cultural activities in the city of Basel in Switzerland. In other words, this chapter is about exploring some aspects of the cultural life and creativity in the ancient city of Basel from a sociological perspective. Theoretically, Basel's culture of festivals and carnivals could be seen as the fundamental quality that brings the people of the city together. For instance, the cultural features of Basel Fasnacht, Morgenstreich, and Basel Herbstmesse reveal highly important aspects of the tangible and intangible dimensions of the culture of Basel as an ancient, medieval European city dating back to the 4th century AD. Methodologically, this chapter aims to represent and produce anthropological knowledge using visual media of research through the methodology of the “Actor-Network Theory”. This method of research comprises three main steps: 1) collecting visual ethnography, 2) designing the Actantial model based on Aristotle's semiotic square, 3) creating visual storyboarding to finalize the Actantiality map through analyzing power dynamics among the human narratives, the historical and cultural narratives, the spatial-environmental narratives, and the official narratives of the state. The main findings of this chapter may confirm or rebut the author's two hypotheses, stating “the city's identity is a mutual manifestation of human-spatial interaction,” and “not all creative cities have to be modern ones; some ancient cities are indeed creative cities based on their cultural, historical and social uniqueness.”

Urban Transformation and Creativity

Serious investment in education is the best way to achieve sustainable development. ‎It is a ‎lifelong education for all, injustice and equal conditions, that can transform ‎societies ‎towards creativity. This chapter assumes that the spread of the creative cities ‎in Egypt must ‎be preceded by the expansion of the learning cities. And to reach this goal ‎needs to pave ‎the way and overcome many social problems, where Egypt wasn't able to ‎reduce inflation ‎and urban randomness, unable to reduce ‎corruption or to reduce ‎population growth rate, ‎and ‎unable to achieve equal distribution of public services‎. This chapter will provide ‎the ‎reader with an answer to the question, How can we reach the creative community by ‎expanding the spread of learning cities in the Egyptian governorates?‎‏ ‏‎To answer this ‎question, the chapter relies on statistical analysis and focus group interview, and using ‎conflicted rules theory to provide a theoretical perception of sustainable development ‎programs that ‎accommodate and accept learning cities.‎

Economics of Sustainable Creative Cities

The concept of creative cities is one of the historically ancient terms that evolve over time, as these cities played an important role as colonies of human civilization. The transformation of the world into a small village as a result of globalization has contributed to the ease of creative migration and human communication at all levels, whether through the internet, ease of travel, or ease of transporting goods. Technology has been the basis of the fourth industrial revolution and informational openness through the internet and then artificial intelligence. Actually, these elements developed the classic concept of creative cities, their economics, and their ability to face future challenges in order to achieve the goals of sustainable development. 2030 SDGs have been launched by the United Nations with the aim of protecting human life and saving the planet through development which is achieved on three axes (economic, social, and environmental) due to the inability of the classical economy to achieve these goals in the formation of a new world order.