This book explores the consequences of change in the urban form, the amalgam of the urban space and buildings and on the processes leading to planning and design. Urban form and its fabric result from a multitude of individual interests, ideas and decisions which in turn result in specific and locally diverse spatial arrangements. These processes which are shaping our built environment are embedded in and determined by different contexts of political, cultural and social-economic norms and values. Urban development and the transformation of urban structures are triggered by technological innovations, laws and taxes, new behaviors or the impact of environmental conditions as well as other factors. Based on case studies from Egypt and the Middle East, together with some cases from Germany and Turkey, this book covers a wide range of change processes focused on historic and inner city districts.

EDITORS Hebatalla Abouelfadl is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt. Dalila ElKerdany is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt. Christoph Wessling is a Dipl.Ing. Urban Planner and Dipl.Ing. for Architecture. Since 2011, he is the Head and scientific Coordinator of the Middle East Cooperation Unit (MEC), Institute of Urban Development and Design, University of Technology Cottbus, Germany.