The Environmental identity from the urban scope

Document Type : Original Article

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Architecture department, High institute of engineering and technology in AL-Arish

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The study addressed the issue of environmental identity theoretically, as the concept of environmental identity is considered one of the new and emerging concepts in the field of urbanism, which is closely linked to the surrounding environment.
The natural context and the social (cultural) context formed the basic, most influential and distinctive pillars, which in turn influenced the urban context and gave it a unique identity.
As a result, the research applied the theoretical (literary) methodology in reviewing and analyzing the literature to extract the most important definitions, elements and components of environmental identity by reviewing previous research from the urban scope and physiological scope and analyzing it comprehensively by introducing bibliometric study from Scopus researches..
The research concluded by presenting a model of the components and elements of environmental identity based on several basic and sub-contexts, namely (the natural context - the social context - the (artificial context) urban ().

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