Abstract
The sixteenth goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development issued by the United Nations indicates the importance of participation. It came through an emphasis on ensuring that responsive, comprehensive, participatory, and representative decisions are taken at all levels. The seventeenth goal also indicates the need to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the partnership. Hence, these two goals were addressed within Egypt’s 2030 agenda for sustainable development. It was noted that in the local context, there is no clear vision or mechanism for the participatory process to support sustainable development through planning, designing, managing, and maintaining urban spaces as one of the areas of implementing the concept of participation. This has an impact on the aesthetic and functional values, where some participatory processes are not directed to boost Sustainability as a goal. In this context, the research aims to study the importance of community participation in upgrading urban spaces from both the conceptual and applied aspects. The paper also seeks to analyze the interaction between the local community and the different types of participation. The paper conducted an analytical study of some urban spaces in the global context, which dealt with the participatory concept. That identified the principles on which the successful urban spaces were based on. Then the paper extracted a participatory mechanism that can be used in the design, rehabilitation, and management of urban spaces to contribute to improving their efficiency and overcoming their shortcomings in developing countries in general and Egypt in particular.
Presenters
Usama KonbrAssociate Professor, Tanta University, Faculty of Engineering, Architectural Engineering Department, Al Gharbiyah, Egypt
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Community Participatory; Urban spaces; Sustainability; Egypt