Disclosing urban space diversity: exploring Cairo's Al Azhar Park and Melbourne's Federation Square

摘要: Diversity has become one of the new doctrines city planners, urban designers, and architects. This paper calls for a fresh look at diversity by arguing that while it continues to be center recent debates, little is known on how space can achieved. Concomitantly, attempts offer answers these questions: Can planned public spaces produce social diversity? What are aspects genuine what others attained only spontaneously? With goal unveiling lessons learned from decision making processes resulting spaces, purpose this encompasses several objectives. It aims providing conceptualization elaborating its underlying contents mechanisms exploring variety meanings adopted in literature. Resulting such conceptualization, establishes model discerning diversity. In turn, mapped two celebrated projects order verify validity. The Cairo's Al Azhar Park Melbourne's Federation Square. methodology based inductive analysis literature developed sociologists. focuses contrasting 1960s 1970s with more arguments. procedure fosters establishment theoretical base conceptualizing which contextualizes intellectual practical aspects. Deduced an conceived understand outlines Mapping Square necessary step Notably, discussing involves descriptive analysis, mapping tracing published as well onsite observations. Conclusions drawn frame up achieved different contexts sociopolitical environment within created, recognize whether architects actually achieve diversity, highlight define articulating other factors acquire meaning overtime spontaneous use spaces.