Despite the increasing number of flood studies, the interrelationships between urban form indices (UFIs) and flood resilience (FR) have received little attention and hold miscellaneous perspectives. Consequentially, this study identifies how UFIs at various spatial scales affect FR by synthesizing article findings and proposing insights for future research. Scientometric analysis has been used to analyze the gathered peer-reviewed articles from nine research engines without time restrictions. One hundred and eighteen relevant articles were included and thoroughly investigated using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol. Our findings indicate that divergent and dialectical perspectives about the efficacy of UFIs are due to multiple disciplines, methodologies, and different case study contexts. The included studies were classified according to urban scale as macro (citywide), meso (districts), micro (block), and multi-scalar analysis by 80.5%, 6.8%, 10.2%, and 2.4%, respectively. Furthermore, the included studies were categorized based on analysis type into realistic case studies, literature reviews, modeling, and hybrid analysis, with 74.6%, 7.6%, 14.4%, and 3.4%, respectively. At the macroscale, city density and spatial distribution degree have the most significant effect on FR. At the same time, mixed uses, connectivity, coverage ratio, block arrangements, and street characteristics are on the meso and micro scales. Further studies on the trade-offs and commonality between UFIs, FR, and overall urban resilience are required to shape climate-adaptive, sustainable communities.

Cairo is a sprawling megacity that has a strikingly fragmented socio-spatial pattern,manifested in a dichotomy of spatial concentrations of urban poverty in informal areas onone hand, and high-level income groups in upscale gated Communities on the other. Thepaper inspects the diverse facets of this socio-spatial division, in an attempt to outlinegeneral policies that can curtail unconstructive influences of urban fragmentation, byenhancing positive aspects and diminishing negative impacts of both gated communities andinformal areas. Proposed policy intervention would prohibit further future division, andfoster adjusting measures to amalgamate Cairo on principles of cohesion, integration andbalance of its socio-spatial structure; a goal emphasized by the Egyptian 25 January 2011revolution which envisions a makeover towards a more equitable society.

This paper aims at evaluating the recent Egyptian experience in strategic planning for villages. More than 4000 villages have been planned with this new approach in the period from 2005 to 2008. The paper adopts a social systems approach as a basic framework for evaluating this experience. In using such an approach of systemic thinking, the paper’s aims are not limited to the articulation of evaluation results of past experience, but also extend to envisage recommendations and suggestions that may be taken in consideration to achieve sustainable results. In the terms of systems theory, the paper argues that we can enhance the current planning methodology, that adopts strategic management methods, if we succeed in dealing with the village and encouraging its transformation from a self‐maintaining reactive system to first, one that is responsive or adaptive to its environment, and later, to a purposeful system that actively develops its environment.

Pituitary adenomas (PAs) are the second most common brain tumors, 10% to 20% of all primary brain tumors. Transsphenoidal approach is now the gold standard for treatment of PAs either microscopic or endoscopic. to analyze the collective outcomes from studies comparing the microscopic transsphenoidal surgery (MTS) with the endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery (ETS) regarding gross total resection (GTR) and postoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak. we searched PubMed, Google scholar search engine, Cochrane database of systematic reviews, EMBASE and science Direct, using the following keywords “Pituitary adenoma/tumor, endoscopy or endoscopic, microscopy or microscopic, gross total/subtotal/near total/radicular resection/excision, hypophysectomy, debulking, CSF leak/leakage ". The mentioned databases were searched for studies published during period from the 1^st of Jan 2015 to 31 Aug. 2020. Total number of patients in included studies was 1211 of which 621 (51.3%) underwent endoscopic surgery and 590 (48.7%) underwent microscopic surgery. Of 990 patient analysed for GTR, it was achieved in 334 patients (69.4%) in endoscopic group compared with 287 patients (56.4%) in microscopic group. Of 1211 patients, Postoperative CSF leak developed in 30 patients (5.7%) compared with 32 patients (4.7%) in endoscopic and microscopic group respectively. GTR was found to be slightly higher in the endoscopic group especially in cases of suprasellar and lateral cavernous extensions. CSF leak showed no significant difference between the two groups.

المدن المائية مصطلح يطلق على التجمعات العمرانية المتداخلة مع المسطحات المائية، أشهرها مدينتي البندقية بإيطاليا وامستردام بهولندا التي تتسم بالقنوات المائية والكباري. ويوجد مدن حديثة مثل جزيرة النخلة الصناعية بدبي، والمنتجعات السياحية بالمالديف المشتهرة بالبناء على دعامات فوق الماء. وتنتشر في مصر التجمعات المائية مثل بعض قري الصيادين في البحيرات الشمالية ومنطقة المكس بالإسكندرية ومدينة الجونة بالغردقة. ويساعد دمج القنوات والمساحات المائية في المدن علي زيادة النشاط الاقتصادي والسياحة والنقل بتكلفة وتلوث أقل، وتوفر إطلالات جمالية وراحة حرارية، ويمكن ان تساعد على مواجهة مخاطرارتفاع مستوي سطح البحر.وبالرغم من انتشار المدن المائية وتعدد فوائدها وأنواعها، مازال لا يوجد تعريف أو تصنيف متفق عليه، فنجد المصطلح يطلق على أي تجمع متداخل مع الماء، بالرغم من وجود اختلاف في السمات والخصائص بين تجمعاتها. وهنا يأتي دور البحث في تحديد وتصنيف الأنماط الرئيسية للمدن المائية، واستنتاج خصائص وسمات كل نوع، لكي يساهم في فهم المدن المائية القائمة وتطويرها والحفاظ عليها أو تخطيط وتصميم مدن مائية جديدة...

فى غضن السنتين الماضيتين اشترک الباحثون فى اعداد المخطا الارشادية لقرى مرکزى العياط والصف ضمن فريق عمل کلية التخطيط الاقليمى والعمرانى (جامعة القاهرة)، وقامت الکلية بوضع رؤية إقليمية متکاملة تضمن اقتراح اقتراح مواقع لإنشاء تجمعات عمرانية جديدة فى الظهير الصحراوى المتاخم لهذه المراکز بهدف استيعاب الزيادة السکانية وحل مشکلة الامتجاج العمرانى للقرى على الارض الزراعية. وتأسيسا على هذه الجهود، تنبثق فکرة الورقة البحثية التى تهدف الى تحديد متطلبات (وکذلک معوقات) نجاح التجمعات الجديدة بالظهير الصحراوى وذلک من خلال التعرف على الشرائح الاجتماعية للسکان الراغبين فى الانتقال الى التجمعات الجديدة، والوقوف على الآليات والعوامل المحفزة لانتقال السکان اليها، سواء کانت نابعة من المشکلات التى تعانى منها القرى القائمة أو عناصر جذب السکان أو عوامل دافعة للاستقرار والارتباط بالتجمعات الجديدة. وکذلک يضع البحث تصورا للادوار التى يمکن ان تقوم بها الدولة والادارات والاجهزة التابعة لها والقطاع الخاص ومؤسسات المجتمع المدنى فى تحفيز انتقال السکان وفى ادارة وتنمية التجمعات الجديدة فى الظهير الصحراوى .....