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Overpopulation and resource shortages are becoming increasingly important challenges to our global agenda. Cities are rapidly evolving, expanding in size and density while confronting major challenges such as migration, deteriorating healthcare, and transportation issues. Studying Egypt's overall urban development tendencies, as well as the continuously growing population in Greater Cairo, it becomes clear that developing new urban communities to accommodate this increase is a requirement. The major goal of any city pursuing evolution is to solve its issues to improve the quality of life and services for its residents, which ties into the goal of a "smart city," as it maximizes the use of technology to satisfy the current and the future needs. This paper discusses the strategy for transforming the old Cairo capital into a new administrative capital (NAC), which is intended to be a smart capital city. It also discusses smart city dimensions, smart city performance evaluation criteria, and smart city technologies such as implementing smart applications in various city sectors, all of which contribute to the city's continued development.

The role of urban development is to restore the ecological system by making parks more efficient and sustainable. The sustainability of historical parks is concerned with more than just conservation; as it contributes to the pillars of sustainability as well as restoring nature conservation areas. Furthermore, historic parks offer demands regarding how to fulfill modern visitors’ needs, since these needs have not been provided in the previous era, and these parks are frequently susceptible to deterioration. This research aims to apply potential strategies to revive abandoned historical parks in Alexandria, which are considered of a significant value to national and international heritage assets, due to their influence on the residents’ socio-cultural heritage. This aim is achieved through two main dimensions. The first one describes the development of restoring historical parks throughout the ages, identifies parks’ laws and charters, the investigation of parks, the reasons for parks' deterioration in Egypt, and the requirements for sustainable parks. The second one is an application of the strategic criteria to different international parks to measure the parks’ sustainability. This leads to an analysis of how these strategies can be implemented at Antoniadis Park. The research concludes that historical park restoration facilitates eco-friendly development by recognizing the sustainability pillars and their intersection.