Towards sustainable commercial streets

الملخص EN

The public space has always been the focus for many researchers, especially the controlling
of the space through the urban configurations.

The street space experience has been
introduced as an approach to rethink in the public areas with a new method of thinking and
how it affects the durability of streets to become sustainable within various dimensions of
analytical studies.

This Paper aims to set an approach for measuring and evaluate the state of Sustainability in
the streets and public spaces through the previous studies done and extract six-different
concepts within the three Sustainable dimensions that affect the street users which are (design
configurations, activity and Environmental aspects).

Moreover these criteria can highlight the
commercial street problems in the Egyptian Streets and determine the strong and weakness
points through creating an Evaluation Reference set through harmonizing the concepts with
the Dimension approach and apply this reference set on the streets for measuring state of
sustainability.

All this result would help to set recommendations for better public spaces and
protect the city character, enhance the streets that characterize the city, neglecting all the
random unorganized activities that affect directly the pedestrians, and finally enhancing the
controlling of the sustainable public space.

on the other hand the paper also works to find a set
of scientific recommendations for planning and the need to take into account during the
process of urban design with the integration of the environment, a basic standard to be based
on environmental and design criteria without affecting the resources and needs of future
generations.