Hisham Abusaada

Hisham Abusaada

Hisham Abusaada is a professor of architecture and urban design in the Housing and Building National Research Centre (HBRC), Egypt. During 1995-2015, he taught urban design course at universities in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. He is the author and co-authors of several scientific manuscripts and books in both Arabic and English published in scientific journals and conference proceedings. His area of interest is in urban design between theory and practice.

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...
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...
Cinematic Works-Based Affective Urban Design Atmospheres
Cinematic Works-Based Affective Urban Design Atmospheres
Hisham Abusaada. © 2020. 13 pages.
This chapter examines the dilemma of using the term “atmospheres” related to architectural history. It theorises the nature of this relationship, developing an analytical...
The Atmospheres of Urban Environments: Ambiguity and Plausibility in Urban Studies
The Atmospheres of Urban Environments: Ambiguity and Plausibility in Urban Studies
Hisham Abusaada. © 2020. 22 pages.
This chapter investigates the ambiguity of the word “atmospheres” in the fields of urban studies. It examines the justifications (plausibility) beyond its uses, with the terms...
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...
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...
Preface
Preface
Hisham Abusaada, Carsten Vellguth, Abeer Elshater. © 2019. 9 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Handbook of Research on Digital Research Methods and Architectural Tools in Urban Planning and Design.
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...
Revisiting the Word “Atmospheres” in the Urban Design Academic Field Based on the Artworks
Revisiting the Word “Atmospheres” in the Urban Design Academic Field Based on the Artworks
Hisham Abusaada. © 2019. 21 pages.
In this debate, we claim that few Egyptian scholars are considering issues of phenomenological critiques addressing adequately the atmosphere of cities and places, and that...
Ethics of Architecture or Ethical Architecture?
Ethics of Architecture or Ethical Architecture?
Hisham Abusaada. © 2019. 15 pages.
This paper examines the nature of the relationship between ethics and architecture. This complicated state of affairs—in professional practice and architectural design—is...
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...