This study examines worker satisfaction vis-à-vis outdoor places in terms of their environmental and socio-morphological aspects. Numerous studies have considered decent work as the eighth goal of sustainable development. However, it is worth investigating outdoor workers’ satisfaction with a view to the practical design of the surrounding context that supports their work in outdoor places. Using bibliometric analysis, this study investigates possible approaches toward providing decent work in a public place in Cairo as a case study, focusing on outdoor workers’ satisfaction. In the bibliometric analysis, this study used query settings in the Scimago database to search for manuscripts published in the previous five years. The result yielded 195 manuscripts that were filtered down to 50 manuscripts and then grouped using VOSviewr Software. Environmental noise and heat assessment analyses were performed using noise level measurements, remote sensing, and the Grasshopper platform. Further, we conducted an ethnographic study employing 77 participant observations. The results show that work hours and time affect worker satisfaction, as do environmental conditions, particularly noise and heat. However, unexpected findings from participant observation in this study do not accord with findings in other scholarly sources, where other observers find workers neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with the spatial morphology in the case study. Per this study, the alignment of worker satisfaction with convenient socio-morphological tangible elements of the workplace and with other environmental aspects should be attained in both specified replicable methods to engender decent work for outdoor workers.

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Mobility and safety are the main characteristics of the city's urban strategies that regenerative cities adopt. This study is concerned with the mobility of pedestrians while crossing vehicle routes within urban developments. Several research groups recognise the negative-positive impact of ergonomic design in understanding human limitations and abilities; additionally, most researchers mentioned ergonomic design in the design of interior architecture elements, and a few have introduced it on an urban scale. So, research used ergonomic design to analyse pedestrian and vehicle movement. The research method adapted ergonomic design principles as a method to analyse human behaviour while crossing roads in an Egyptian context. After reviewing the relevant literature and Egyptian context, the authors discovered that studies show significant development occurred on Cairo's roads that threaten people's lives. The analysis tools used in research are questionnaires, surveys, and observations. The results concluded that both streets need more pedestrian-friendly designs and regulations.

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