Dalia Aly Gaafar Aly

Assistant Professor at Architecture Engineering

Career Information

Academic Information

Brief

Assistant Professor in the Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, holding a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the same department and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Strathclyde, UK. Research experience includes public and green spaces, public parks and broader public spaces studies with particular focus on placemaking and placekeeping. Work employs both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, systems thinking and landscape ecology. Master’s thesis examined the relationship between green spaces and basic human needs, while doctoral research developed a systems-based framework for the sustainable management of public parks in Cairo. Research interests include nature-based solutions, management and entrepreneurship and the integration of serious games into education.

Awards

- Student Partnership Impact Award (2024)و Awarded as a member of the Doctoral School Multidisciplinary Symposium (DSMS) 2023 organising committee at the University of Strathclyde - Issued by SEDA UK in collaboration with JISC

- PhD Video Challenge, Outstanding Video (first prize) award (2022), International competition for built environment PhD candidates sought 2-minute videos explaining the significance of their research https://vimeo.com/763440965?embedded=true&source=vimeo_lo go&owner=174026131

- COP27 Legacy Event, People's Choice award for best poster (2022), The University of Strathclyde Doctoral School and the Centre for Sustainable Development

- Best Master's Thesis Award, Architecture Department, Ain Shams University for the academic year 2016/2017

Articles

- de Wilde, P., Aly, D., Cho, S., Kim, J.-H., Kim, S., Park, C.-S., 2025. Occupant behavioural freedom in building energy use. Appl. Energy 377, 124682. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124682
- Aly, D., Dimitrijevic, B., 2024. Assessing park qualities of public parks in Cairo, Egypt. Archnet-IJAR 18, 21–40. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-03-2022-0073
- Aly, D., Chen, Z., Dimitrijevic, B., 2023. Towards sustainable public park management in Cairo through facilities management: a conceptual review study, in: Green Building & Construction Economics. pp. 35–47. https://doi.org/10.37256/gbce.4120232243
- Aly, D., Dimitrijevic, B., 2022. Public green space quantity and distribution in Cairo, Egypt. J. Eng. Appl. Sci. 69, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44147-021-00067-z
- Aly, D., Dimitrijevic, B., 2022. Systems approach to the sustainable management of urban public parks. Urban For. Urban Green. 68, 127482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127482
- Aly, D., Dimitrijevic, B., 2021. An ecocentric approach to defining a public park system. Archnet-IJAR 15, 634–651. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-11-2020-0275
- Aly, D., Hassan, D.K., Mohamed, S., Hamhaber, J., 2018. Human needs as an approach to designed landscapes. J. Nat. Resour. Dev. 8, 15–26. https://doi.org/10.5027/jnrd.v8i0.03
- Aly, D., Hassan, D.K., 2017. Public waterfronts as multifunctional public landscapes comparative analysis study. Fac. Eng. Shoubra.
- Khodeir, L.M., Aly, D., Tarek, S., 2016. Integrating HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modeling) tools in the application of sustainable retrofitting of heritage buildings in Egypt. Procedia Environ. Sci. 34, 258–270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2016.04.024