Integrating Multi-Scalar Attributes in Assessing Urban Sustainability for the Built Environment in Heritage Sites: The SHAI Model

Abdel Fattah, Dalia and Nayer, Aida (2023) Integrating Multi-Scalar Attributes in Assessing Urban Sustainability for the Built Environment in Heritage Sites: The SHAI Model. LET IT GROW, LET US PLAN, LET IT GROW. Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Resilient Smart Green and Blue Cities. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2023, 28th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 415-427. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

Sustainable development approaches are a widely used term, which has been increasingly essential in the Middle East, in general and, in Egypt in specific, for the purpose of planning and urban policies formulation specifically in heritage sites. The research was inspired by the significance of assets of historical areas which motivated the researchers to study and define their values, and find appropriate processes and mechanisms to measure, and evaluate their qualities. A proposed model, for re-structuring planning processes and assessing information in regards of relative materials on sustainable, urban indicators is discoursed in order to develop a distinctive representation that integrates approaches of urban sustainability in the built environment, in terms of socio-culture and socio-economic aspects, environmental, and spatial dimensions, furthermore, various factors such as time, activities, space, interests, and quality of life. This paper aims to reduce the complexity of multi-attribute criteria of sustainability, by adopting analytical representation for selected case study, based on a integral model to assess urban sustainability in the built environment for Heritage Sites. This approach investigates indicators of urban qualities relying on the integration of a BEQUEST framework implementing effective qualitative scales (quantifiable cities) and concludes with recommendations to develop an integrative, multi-scalar assessment method. The paper present details for the proposed framework; Sustainable Historical Area Index (SHAI); model as an integrated tool used to evaluate the capacity of the multi-scaler attributes to assess the urban sustainability in the built environment for Heritage Sites. Results should provide assessment methods to be used in developing the model and provides sustainable evaluations for enhancing urban aspects. Finally, the paper applies its findings on a case study assessment of the urban setting in El Fustat, Cairo, Egypt. The application comes to show the validity of the conceptual application of the proposed multi-scalar attributes of the Sustainable Historical Area Index upon evaluating values and principles within an existing Heritage Sites towards more sustainable built environment. This paper investigates the optimal corresponding values to be applied in evaluating the sustainability of urban development based on the analytical techniques of the empirical study.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	fustat old Cairo, assessment models, heritage sites, urban planning, sustainable design
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor T Technology > TH Building construction
Depositing User:	REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2023 11:36
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2023 17:37
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/1022

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