The role of landscape design in new urban place, Case study: New administrative capital in Egypt

: Sustainability of place identity is one of the main concerns in architecture nowadays. The end of the last century witnessed a rapid increase in urban population worldwide due to the increase of internal and external immigration rate. Recently, more than half of the world‘s population lives in urban settlements, putting into consideration the fact that these settlements continue to grow in order to accommodate more inhabitants. Therefore accordingly, both natural and cultural landscape resources will continue to be under pressure in and around these urban settlements. Today, Landscape design approaches and practice are interdisciplinary, and they can be used to manage the development of urban settlements. Therefore, it is important to introduce an analytical Landscape framework which respects place identity. The main concern of this framework technique is to identify the cultural features of urban place and preserve these features through the growth of new urban extensions. This helps in conserving the local image and values of urban places which considered as an important aspect in urban design and planning. Place identity is an important aspect that should be considered in social and cultural life of urban places. The continuity of place identity is strongly linked to place attachment and sense of belonging. It is important to develop a sense of belonging, as it is a crucial in establishing an emotional bond with urban places. Such bond increases the inhabitant‘s connection to the place. And to achieve such aim, Landscape features can be used in improving the quality of urban places especially when it comes to engaging cultural landscape factors with this place. In the end, the research aims to develop new urban places, such as the new capital city which is a new political, cultural and economic centre, due to its privileged location and proximity to the Suez Canal. New landscape features will be proposed which represent and symbolizes the ancient Egyptian civilization. The green space will link the natural area with administrative buildings and ministries and give it a visual identity which expresses the ancient Egyptian civilization. This will help individuals to interact and feel sense of belonging to this area by using of landscape elements with the surrounding buildings.