Abeer Elshater

Abeer Elshater, PhD, is a professor of Urban Morphology at Ain Shams University (ASU), Cairo, Egypt, teaching and supervising multidisciplinary topics in the ideology of urban design. Her area of interest is in urban design disciplines. She has worked on some international research projects with international universities. Elshater is an author and co-author of seven books as well as a number of scientific manuscripts in international journals and conference proceedings. Recently, she acts as an ambassador of the Regional Studies Association, United Kingdom.

Publications

Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities
Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater, Marwa Khalifa. © 2022. 267 pages.
In the past decades, protecting the urban environment in the face of environmentalism and environmental rights has become crucial to saving the planet from the dangers of the...
Climate Change Adaptation: Strategic Planning and Urban Design Practice
Climate Change Adaptation: Strategic Planning and Urban Design Practice
Abeer Elshater, Hisham Abusaada. © 2022. 23 pages.
The United Nations (UN) has proposed two actions against climate change between 2015 and 2021: “combat” in Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and “adaptation” in...
Urban Heat Islands in Degenerative and Regenerative Cities: Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
Urban Heat Islands in Degenerative and Regenerative Cities: Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
Hamdy Hefnawy, Abeer Elshater, Mohamed El Fayoumi, Natalie Marie Gulsrud. © 2022. 24 pages.
This chapter examines a community developed in the early 20th century as a sustainable development paradigm. However, today saw the implementation of particular development plans...
Mapping Heat Exposure of Pedestrian Density Around Metro Stations Using Artificial Intelligence: Ramses Square, Cairo, Egypt
Mapping Heat Exposure of Pedestrian Density Around Metro Stations Using Artificial Intelligence: Ramses Square, Cairo, Egypt
Shereen Wael, Abeer Elshater, Samy M. Z. Afifi. © 2022. 21 pages.
Global research extensively discusses artificial intelligence (AI) and thermal comfort in urban studies. The current research design uses Goodvision Video Insights as an...
Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces
Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater, Dennis Rodwell. © 2021. 290 pages.
Public places are places where all citizens, irrespective of their race, age, religion, or class level (social or economic), cannot be excluded. It serves to improve the...
Addressing the New Pragmatic Methods in Urban Design Discipline
Addressing the New Pragmatic Methods in Urban Design Discipline
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater. © 2021. 18 pages.
This chapter addresses “new methods” to display research problems which are strongly linked with the issue of urban emotions. It focuses on how to use these methods in urban...
Nightlife in Smart Public Spaces
Nightlife in Smart Public Spaces
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater. © 2021. 12 pages.
Every smart city has digital technology, but not every city has a digital technology called ‘smart'. This chapter focuses on the impact of digital technologies on nightlife...
Billboards, Smartness, and Nightlife Atmospheres in Old Cairo
Billboards, Smartness, and Nightlife Atmospheres in Old Cairo
Abeer Elshater, Hisham Abusaada. © 2021. 22 pages.
This chapter explores the random configurations of lighting elements of billboards and outdoor screens in historical public spaces. This chapter built a theoretical base on a...
Reconstructing Urban Ambiance in Smart Public Places
Reconstructing Urban Ambiance in Smart Public Places
Hisham Abusaada, Ashraf M. Salama, Abeer Elshater. © 2020. 280 pages.
New technologies have the power to augment many aspects of society, including public spaces and art. The impact of smart technology on urban design is vast and filled with...
The Dawn of Walkability
The Dawn of Walkability
Mohamed Abedo, Mohamed Salheen, Abeer Elshater. © 2020. 17 pages.
This explanatory research investigates the impact of configurations in the urban fabric on walkability regarding connectivity and global integration. This study aims to examine...
Affective Atmospheres, Essence of Architecture, and Spirit of Place
Affective Atmospheres, Essence of Architecture, and Spirit of Place
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater. © 2020. 19 pages.
This chapter reviews the implications of using the words “essences” and “spirit” in urban studies and their link with the concept of affective atmospheres in the realms of...
Combinatorial Architecture: Urban Causality, Creativity, and Socialisation
Combinatorial Architecture: Urban Causality, Creativity, and Socialisation
Caterina Tiazzoldi, Abeer Elshater. © 2020. 22 pages.
Situational Atmospheres: Filmmaking Approaches for Conveying Urban Design
Situational Atmospheres: Filmmaking Approaches for Conveying Urban Design
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater. © 2020. 25 pages.
This chapter examines how placemaking and filmmaking can improve teaching urban design-based situations of atmospheres. The qualitative-deductive form of content analysis...
Handbook of Research on Digital Research Methods and Architectural Tools in Urban Planning and Design
Handbook of Research on Digital Research Methods and Architectural Tools in Urban Planning and Design
Hisham Abusaada, Carsten Vellguth, Abeer Elshater. © 2019. 445 pages.
The efficient usage, investigation, and promotion of new methods, tools, and technologies within the field of architecture, particularly in urban planning and design, is becoming...
From Chaos to Order: Articulating the Urban Policies for Cities of Hardship
From Chaos to Order: Articulating the Urban Policies for Cities of Hardship
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater. © 2019. 24 pages.
This chapter uses the term urban chaos as an alternative to words such as anarchy, randomness, and disorder. It expresses the visual and behavioral failure that describes a...
A Crowdsourcing Approach in Urban Design: A Bibliographic Review of Cities of Singularity
A Crowdsourcing Approach in Urban Design: A Bibliographic Review of Cities of Singularity
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater. © 2019. 24 pages.
This chapter examines the problem of excessive similarity when designing new cities. It focuses on the generating of innovative ideas through urban design paradigms. The purpose...
Internet of Things Interpreting a Myth: Internally Displaced Persons Transform Cities of Hardship Into Chaos Cities
Internet of Things Interpreting a Myth: Internally Displaced Persons Transform Cities of Hardship Into Chaos Cities
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater. © 2019. 35 pages.
The livability standard still has not considered the chaos city that may stem from or lead to cities of hardship. This chapter rectifies this by making the phenomena of chaos and...
Knowledge-Based Urban Design in the Architectural Academic Field
Knowledge-Based Urban Design in the Architectural Academic Field
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater. © 2018. 24 pages.
This chapter focuses on the theory of knowledge-based urban design as a tool for intellectual literacy in architecture schools. It explores the extent of the current knowledge...