Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 11(4), pp. 1795 - 1813
DOI: 10.13189/cea.2023.110411
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City Growth Challenges as a Dilemma between Urban Mobility and Livability: A Case Study of Heliopolis

Dalia AbouBakr ^*, Tamer ElSerafi
Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 12613, Giza, Egypt

ABSTRACT

This paper aims at investigating the challenges of city growth and expansion. It focuses on interventions implemented to enhance urban mobility and their impact on urban livability in heritage areas. The current study uses a mixed method approach of qualitative and quantitative methods. The research uses a two-phased methodology. Phase one intends to understand the interlink between urban mobility and livability through the review of literature on mobility and livability concepts, and the approaches to measure livability. Phase two intends to investigate the effect of urban mobility interventions on urban livability. This is achieved through investigating the case study of Heliopolis district in two stages. Stage one involves site investigation and documentation and stage two involves a survey targeting users and visitors of Heliopolis, and urban experts. The case study results identify the positive and negative impacts of the recently implemented actions in Heliopolis. The positive impacts include eased traffic and getting rid of congestions, while the negative impacts include decrease of green spaces, pedestrian safety, and walkability, less connectivity and accessibility, deterioration in the city image, and less users comfort. Moreover, it was the reason for the increase of private cars use and its result in air and noise pollution and energy consumption. The analysis of such impacts helped in proposing recommendations for overcoming the challenges associated with city growth especially in urban heritage areas. There is a lack of studies concerned with overcoming challenges of city growth and expansions in North African cities. Such cities have a distinctive culture and heritage, and usually suffer from large population and the negative impacts of interventions aimed to solve problems that arise from increased urbanization and traffic. The current study tries to fill this gap through analyzing the case study of Heliopolis and proposing recommendations for overcoming the challenges associated with city growth in urban heritage areas with reference to the global approaches in this regard.

KEYWORDS
City Growth, Heliopolis, Heritage Districts, Livability, Mobility, Urban Spaces

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Dalia AbouBakr , Tamer ElSerafi , "City Growth Challenges as a Dilemma between Urban Mobility and Livability: A Case Study of Heliopolis," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 1795 - 1813, 2023. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2023.110411.

(b). APA Format:
Dalia AbouBakr , Tamer ElSerafi (2023). City Growth Challenges as a Dilemma between Urban Mobility and Livability: A Case Study of Heliopolis. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 11(4), 1795 - 1813. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2023.110411.