Offers a perspective that explains the importance of a city in having a unique identity in order to define its history, shape its present, and determine its future Illustrates how both the architecture of a city and contemporary arts actually affect the identity of the city Enriches the understanding of planners and decision makers on how to use the features of the cities as resources in order to solve all the urban problems that the cities are facing

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Dr. Nabil Mohareb
Dr. Nabil Mohareb is an Associate Professor; he has more than eight years of administrative experience as the Director of Faculty branch of Architecture- Design & Built Environment in a newly established branch in Tripoli campus- Beirut Arab University, Lebanon. His research is focusing on the relationship between architecture and urbanism; he is interested in social behaviour activities, their mutual effect on both spatial and economic variables in urban spaces, and their interrelationship with architectural design using digital simulation in forecasting their movements and behaviour. He has developed and planned an area of personal research, which is reflected in his several published papers in refereed journals and international refereed conferences, in addition to the work of his postgraduate students. Dr. Nabil has participated in number of funding research related to understanding social behaviour activities. With regards to his teaching experience, Dr. Nabil has worked for a number of distinguished universities in Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. Over the past eighteen years of teaching experience, he has gained an understanding of dealing with multinational and multicultural environments. Recently, he is using 'Design-Build' method in post-graduate design studios to involve the students more with the construction industry (digitally and traditionally).

Antonella Versaci
Antonella Versaci is a researcher and assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University Kore of Enna, where she is responsible of the Laboratory of Restoration of Architectural and Cultural Heritage and teaches architectural restoration and laboratory of architectural restoration within the Master of Architecture. She is also an associate researcher at the Institut Parisien de Recherche Architecture Urbanistique Société (IPRAUS), a research laboratory of the ENSAPB National Superior School of Architecture of Paris-Belleville (UMR 3329 Ausser). Her research applies to the issues of safeguarding and conservation of historic buildings and landscape, with particular attention to cultural heritage spread across the territory and to the protection of historic centers, as well as to their survey, diagnosis, classification and valorization. In 1996, she earned a master's degree in Building Engineering at the University of Messina and, the following year, obtained a scholarship for postgraduate specialization courses abroad. She then attended in Paris two courses of specialization in urban preservation, strategic planning and management earning both degrees. In 2005, she received a PhD degree cum laude in Architecture from the University of Paris VIII, with a dissertation on the legislation on historic centers in France. From June 2004 to September 2008, she was a UNESCO International staff member, responsible for numerous cultural projects in Southeastern Europe, including those related to the creation of a School of Restoration in Tirana (Albania) and to a Center for Digitization of heritage cultural in Skopje (FYROM). She is the author of over 90 refereed publications.

Dr. Yasser Mahgoub
Dr. Yasser Mahgoub is the Chairman of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Engineering, Qatar University. Received B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1978 and Doctorate in Architecture from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA in 1990. He has held several academic positions since 1990 at Ain Shams University, United Arab Emirates University, Kuwait University and Qatar University.Practiced as a professional architect in Egypt and was a founding member in 1980 of The Egyptian Designers architectural firm in Cairo, Egypt. Practiced as an architect and consultant in Egypt, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar. Teaches architectural design studios, architectural research, environment, graduation projects and urban planning legislation and behavior in architecture and architectural professional practice. His research interests include social and cultural aspects of architecture, sustainable architecture, architectural education and the impact of globalization on architecture. Served as a scientific referee for many scientific conferences and journals. Attended and presented papers in several international and regional conferences. Practiced as a professional architect and consultant in Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar. Was a member of the Agha Khan for Architecture Award reviewers for the 2010 cycle.This book discusses several topics regarding different vocabularies, such as sacred architecture, heritage buildings, open spaces, landmarks, and street escapes, all of which have a direct influence on the city form. The city form is also affected by the indirect impact of the citizens themselves, for example their culture, which in turn depends on the arts, as can be seen and embodied in morals, paintings, media, digital art, and sculpture. The book also examines the fundamental elements that are responsible for the identity of the city.
Presenting case studies that demonstrate the how implementing the concept of the responsibility of architecture and arts affects the development of our cities, the book offers a new approach that is based on the available features of a city and explores how planners and decision-makers can use these features to address the myriad problems that our cities are facing.

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Domestic Architecture and the City Identity:The Historic City of Homs and Its Traditional Courtyard Houses as a Case Study.- Dialogical Approach for the City identity: Examination of Beirut Central District Contemporary Architecture.- Identifying the Perceptual Image of Distinctive Places through Storytelling.- Improving Urban Contexts' Identity via Conducting a Smart Mechanism.- Analytical Study of The Visual Content of Khuwy's Tomb in Saqqara in Egypt.- Psycho-Social Impact of New-Communities Ads in Egypt on Impending Crime Rates.- Using Sonic Perception To Improve Public Spaces And Develop Place Identity.- Is It Possible To Define Architectural Identity More Objectively?.- Developing a Model for Evaluation of Heritage Urban Open-Air Museums: Applied to Al-Moez Street open-air Museum Cairo.- Porous Images: Benjamin Reveals Naples.- The Impact of Identity in Determining the Characteristics of the Public Arts in Landscape.- The Reflection of Local Materials and Culture on Architecture: A Case Study of Harra.- Vernacular Architecture as an Expression of Cities' Identity: Gercü Houses in Turkey.- How Can We Recover The Identity of The City? Workshops of The City Of Tomorrow / A Vila Do Mañá.- Energy Efficiency in Architecture Design in Mohenjo-Daro.