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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 lifestyle experience of its inhabitants, as well as promote social connections. All citizens are responsible for it and are interested in it, and the intervention for change must be the responsibility of all without exception. As such, bottom-up urban planning is essential for urban environments and for transforming nightlife in public places in order to create more meaningful experiences and instill a greater sense of identity and community. Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces analyzes the patterns of transformations of nightlife in public life. The book investigates urban nightlife transformations and the challenge of enhancing the sense of belonging in sensitive areas such as local communities and historical sites. The chapters present new insights to control the chaotic intervention related to the elements of traditional or digital technology, whether from citizens themselves or local authorities. The objective also is to document urban nightlife transformations that enhance the sense of belonging in historical sites. Important topics covered include urban-gamification, digital urban art, urban socio-ecosystems, and reimagining space in the urban nightlife. This book is ideal for urban planners, developers, social scientists, technologists, civil engineers, architects, policymakers, government officials, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in urban nightlife and nightscape and the smart technologies used for transformation.

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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. Abeer Elshater, PhD, is a professor of Urban Morphology at Ain Shams University (ASU), Cairo, Egypt, teaching and supervising multidisciplinary topics in the ideology of urban design. Her area of interest is in urban design disciplines. She has worked on some international research projects with international universities. Elshater is an author and co-author of seven books as well as a number of scientific manuscripts in international journals and conference proceedings. Recently, she acts as an ambassador of the Regional Studies Association, United Kingdom.

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