Abeer Elshater is an associate professor at Ain Shams University. She was born in 1976 in Egypt. She obtained her BSc in urban design and spatial planning in 1999 from Ain Shams Un...view moreAbeer Elshater is an associate professor at Ain Shams University. She was born in 1976 in Egypt. She obtained her BSc in urban design and spatial planning in 1999 from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. In 2009, she received her PhD in urban design from the same university. Since then, she has acted as an assistant professor then an associate professor, teaching and supervising multidisciplinary topics in urban planning and design. She has worked on some international research projects with international universities. In 2011, she joined the program Integrated Urbanism & Sustainable Design (IUSD) as a teaching staff and academic adviser of post-graduate students. She has published a book entitled Urban Design Paradigm, as well as thirteen scientific manuscripts in international journals and periodicals. She is a vice director of Contagious Improvement of Quality Assurance Unit (CIQAU) at Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University (ASU). Her official e-mail is abeer.elshater@eng.asu.edu.eg.
Hisham M. G. Abusaada is currently professor of architecture and urban design in architecture and housing research institute, Housing and Building National Research Center HBRC, Cairo, Egypt. He taught in the urban design program in the department of landscape architecture at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, from 1995 to 2004, and in several Egyptian Universities, and higher institutions. He is an architect and urban designer, educator, and author of numerous books and articles on the urban design. He has more than thirty-five issued scientific papers and sixtieth essays in Arabic and Egyptian magazine. He concerns with the sociocultural aspects and special problems of the urban community and development project. He has several published books i.e., (1) The Art of the City, Refutation of Intellectual Discourse toward Knowledge Enlightenment, Partridge Publishing Africa, A Penguin Random House Company, South Africa, 2015; (2) Topics in Landscape Architecture profession, academic book, Cairo, Egypt, 2007; (3) Post Occupancy Evaluation, translated book, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, King Faisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2004; and (4) Efficiency and Urban Form Generation, approach to site planning and design, Academic Book, Cairo, Egypt, 1992.view less