Mobility is one of the main factors to promote the quality of life for the citizens; a low level of mobility is generally leading to a low quality of life, as it may become a barrier to satisfaction of basic needs and participation in social life. The paper focuses on identifying the urban quality of life, the relevance of its mobility urban quality of life concept and studying the indicators of mobility. Moreover, the paper investigates Al-Rehab City as one of new communities in Cairo' to identify variables of street connectivity and determine the relationship between land use and mobility by applying Space Syntax. The paper aims to prove the impact of multi modal, walkable and effective transport system in improving the quality of life and encouraging citizens to move to new cities, which leads to achieve the Expected population capacity in Egyptian new cities. Finally, the paper is concluding with concrete results in the measurement of quality of life features in Al-Rehab city that concerning the mobility dimension, accessibility, pedestrian catchment area and connectivity. Also, using space syntax techniques can verify these features which will contribute to the establishment of sustainable residential areas.

There is an increasing interest in using healing gardens in general hospitals and in pediatric hospitals in particular since it has an important psychological impact on children for instance it reduces stress. The paper focuses on the impact of health care on hospitalized children, theories of environmental restoration and design guidelines for healing gardens in children's hospitals. The paper aims to prove the relation between the design of healing garden and hospitalized children behavior to discover if certain elements of design principles have indeed a positive impact on psychological recovery of children, and if so, what are these elements and how they can be improved. The paper examined the perceptions of 25 children towards the healing garden in the pediatric cancer hospital in Egypt and the results revealed that, 80% of children showed satisfaction toward the garden. 20% of them gave no negative comments. Additionally, fifth likert scale was conducted to identify the impact of healing garden on psychological recovery of children. The results showed that not only 95.6% of 50 specialized therapists and psychiatrists admitted that the communication with nature has a positive effect on psychological recovery of children. The most important survey was made with 50 volunteers who discussed the effectiveness of 25 elements from 6 design principles for a healing garden in pediatric cancer hospital. These principles was agreed on by the volunteers with different percentage sense of control (74.8%), Social support(74.6%), positive distractions(67.6%), sensorial dimensions(53.2%), movement and exercise(60.4 %) and Natural distractions(89.2%). Finally, the paper is concluding that healing gardens have an important role in increasing the communication between sick children and nature, improving cognitive performance and promoting psychological recovery

The existing industrial zones suffer from many problems and obstacles that prevent them from achieving the desired goals for which they were established, most of which are represented in the failure to observe the criteria for selecting the sites of these zones and their lack of many foundations for planning and design, and the lack of commitment to the application and follow-up of these standards and foundations in the different stages of development. This research paper will address the most important factors for choosing the locations of industrial zones and the planning bases for settling different industries in them, and studying the basic considerations for designing their facilities in accordance with the Environmental Law, as it aims to arrive at a proposed model for evaluating the planning of the existing industrial zones in Egypt, taking into account the standards, foundations, and planning and design considerations, and is characterized by its applicability on all regions, taking into account the variation and difference of data from one region to another.

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