Mediterranean coastal cities are increasingly threatened by rising sea levels, land subsidence, and extreme weather events. The combination of climate change effects and harmful anthropogenic activities has placed Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, and specifically Alexandria, under significant challenges, necessitating urgent coastal landscape interventions. This study aims to demonstrate the anthropogenic impacts on the coastal landscape of Alexandria through the analysis of the current coastal protection projects and aims to demonstrate the importance of integrating the New European Bauhaus initiative to the coast of Alexandria to guide future coastal landscape interventions in the region. To achieve these goals, the study investigates the challenges of the Egyptian Mediterranean coast, investigating the vulnerability of Alexandria and its ongoing coastal protection projects. This is followed by a discussion evaluating these governmental coastal protection projects through the lens of the New European Bauhaus values. This study utilized geospatial imagery analysis of satellite images from Google Earth, focusing on six key locations along Alexandria’s waterfront to track shoreline change as an impact of the current coastal protection projects from 2000 to 2024. Additionally, the author conducted original photographic documentation during the summer of 2024, spanning from the Citadel of Qaitbay in the west to Abu Qir in the east. At each of these six locations, photographs were selected to capture the efficiency of the core values of the New European Bauhaus initiative: sustainability, inclusivity, and aesthetics. In conclusion, the study captured socio-spatial conditions, highlighting issues of accessibility, human interaction with the coast, and the impact of Alexandria’s current grey coastal protection projects on sustainability, inclusivity, and aesthetics. Secondly, it provides interdisciplinary ideas for future coastal landscape interventions on the Egyptian coast to promote social wellbeing and to provide sustainable qualities and inclusivity to the people and the coastal ecosystem, representing values aligned with NEB.

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Rethinking Alexandria’s Coastal Landscape: Analyzing Governmental Coastal Protection Projects through the New European Bauhaus Lens

  • Alessandro Villari,
  • Mostafa Mowafak Hamed

摘要

Mediterranean coastal cities are increasingly threatened by rising sea levels, land subsidence, and extreme weather events. The combination of climate change effects and harmful anthropogenic activities has placed Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, and specifically Alexandria, under significant challenges, necessitating urgent coastal landscape interventions. This study aims to demonstrate the anthropogenic impacts on the coastal landscape of Alexandria through the analysis of the current coastal protection projects and aims to demonstrate the importance of integrating the New European Bauhaus initiative to the coast of Alexandria to guide future coastal landscape interventions in the region. To achieve these goals, the study investigates the challenges of the Egyptian Mediterranean coast, investigating the vulnerability of Alexandria and its ongoing coastal protection projects. This is followed by a discussion evaluating these governmental coastal protection projects through the lens of the New European Bauhaus values. This study utilized geospatial imagery analysis of satellite images from Google Earth, focusing on six key locations along Alexandria’s waterfront to track shoreline change as an impact of the current coastal protection projects from 2000 to 2024. Additionally, the author conducted original photographic documentation during the summer of 2024, spanning from the Citadel of Qaitbay in the west to Abu Qir in the east. At each of these six locations, photographs were selected to capture the efficiency of the core values of the New European Bauhaus initiative: sustainability, inclusivity, and aesthetics. In conclusion, the study captured socio-spatial conditions, highlighting issues of accessibility, human interaction with the coast, and the impact of Alexandria’s current grey coastal protection projects on sustainability, inclusivity, and aesthetics. Secondly, it provides interdisciplinary ideas for future coastal landscape interventions on the Egyptian coast to promote social wellbeing and to provide sustainable qualities and inclusivity to the people and the coastal ecosystem, representing values aligned with NEB.