COVID-19’s challenges to urbanism: social distancing and the phenomenon of boredom in urban spaces
Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsHisham AbusaadaHisham Abusaada is a professor of Urban Design at the Housing and Building National Research Centre (HBRC), Egypt. He concerns himself with the socio-cultural aspects and spatial problems of urban community and development projects. Abusaada is known for his many books and articles on architecture and urban design. He was a faculty member in the Urban Design program in the Department of Landscape Architecture at King Faisal University Dammam, Saudi Arabia (1995–2008). He also works in some Egyptian Universities and other higher educational institutions in Egypt.Abeer ElshaterAbeer Elshater is a professor of Urban Morphology at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, teaching and supervising multidisciplinary topics in the ideology of urban design. She is a personal investigator to a funded research project (STDF Basic & Applied Research Grants (STDF-BARG 37234) by Science, Technology and Innovation Funding Authority about urban heat islands and urban forms. Elshater has also worked on some international research projects with international universities. She is a co-editor, co-author and author of several scientific books and manuscripts. Currently, Elshater acts as an ambassador of the Regional Studies Association, United Kingdom (UK).