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One primary urban regeneration objective is to revive the city’s declined and sluggishly animated public spaces. Nevertheless, due to a lack of funds, most of those projects target the city’s principal public spaces, such as central parks, squares, downtown, and waterfronts. Whether selectively, consecutively, or collectively carried out, the usual magnitude of these projects drains the city’s budget as they consume extended time and costly treatments, resulting in a few projects being implemented in primary spaces and fewer devoted to the city’s secondary spaces. Tactical Urbanism is a viable way for the city’s urban managers to implement their long list of regeneration projects and challenge the chronically limited budget the city chronically encounters. One of the common tools used is temporary events and activities. Through the arrangement of multiple-size and multi-nature events, the city brings life to the unappealing public spaces. This paper focuses on developing a strategic multi-tiered system of support framework to assist the city in reviving underutilized public spaces, considering the time, characteristics, and cost layers. Such a framework builds on the employment of local events as a viably flexible and low-cost “Temporary Urbanism” tactic that can be used in city spaces of different grades. The research employs a qualitative desktop analysis of the data collected from historical literature that includes classical theory and lessons learned from various international examples. In addition, a survey is carried out among the city’s urban officials to validate the proposed framework structure. An analysis is then used to develop a framework that can be used as a tool assisting the city’s managers in taking low-cost, quick, and efficient actions regarding the efficient activation of the city’s spaces.
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Gohar, N., Ragab, T.S. (2023). Local Events as a Temporary Urbanism Tactic for Public Spaces Revival. In: Kostopoulou, S., Herrera-Franco, G., Wood, J., Al-Kodmany, K. (eds) Cities’ Vocabularies and the Sustainable Development of the Silkroads. SRSTDCH 2021. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31027-0_5
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