With most of the worlds population living in cities and urban areas, cities are currently
seeking new strategies to integrate nature into the built environment. Urban waterways, and
their adjacent urban areas, have been typically the main concern of these strategies. Urban
waterfronts, although often sites of heavy development, are rarely designed to reflect the
innate human need for contact with nature, commonly known as 'Biophilia'. Within this
context, the main objective of this paper is to explore biophilic indicators in Central Cairo's …