Happiness and leisure in the Public Place A historical study of Egypt from Ancient Egyptian Age through Coptic Age | ||||
| Journal of Urban Research | ||||
| Article 8, Volume 29, Issue 1, July 2018, Page 167-184 PDF (973.58 K) | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jur.2018.88634 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Ahmed Salah El-Din Ouf; Nourhan Abbas El-Zafarany | ||||
| قسم الهندسة المعمارية - کلية الهندسة - جامعة القاهرة – مصر | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Urban design and planning are about making the urban experience better for all the urban inhabitants. Happiness/well-being in the past decade has come to focus in research as having a main role in people's quality of life in cities. The Egyptian culture has roots going all the way to the ancient Egyptian cultures and running up to the very unique contemporary context of its society. This research aims at exploring the characteristics of happiness, leisure, and public space during the time from the ancient Egyptian to the end of the Coptic era. This research is part of an attempt to designate the lines of continuity and rupture in the characteristics of happiness, leisure, and the public space along the timeline of Egypt. The research uses a chronological analysis of the happiness beliefs, leisure activities, and public space characters of inclusion, across a period of time spanning over the ages of ancient Egyptians, Hellenic, and Copts. Points of continuity and rupture on the three levels of belief, activity, and space are analyzed across the time under study. The research shows the morphology of some characteristics of happiness belief, leisure activities, and public space, and how some of those continued to be effective in the contemporary Egyptian culture. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Happiness; Leisure; Public space; Egypt; Ancient Egypt; Coptic Egypt; Ptolemaic Egypt | ||||
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