Section 1. Newly-developed digital methods. Chapter 1. A crowdsourcing approach in urban design: a bibliographic review of cities of singularity ; Chapter 2. Biggis with Hadoop in mapreduce environment: towards an M2BG framework ; Chapter 3. Digital simulation for the outdoor thermal comfort assessment ; Chapter 4. Internet of things interpreting a myth: internally displaced persons transform cities of hardship into chaos cities ; Chapter 5. Geodesign and urban impact analysis ; Chapter 6. Towards city information modeling: a multidisciplinary platform for urban planners ; Chapter 7. Q sensor for the city on the threshold of stress: degenerative dimension of the sound atmosphere ; Chapter 8. Introducing a conceptual framework for spatial decision SIM: a tool supports decisions for stakeholders ; Chapter 9. Theory, data, and methods: a review of models of land-use change ; Chapter 10. Space syntax theory and its contribution to urban design ; Chapter 11. Space syntax approach for articulating space and social life ; Chapter 12. Space syntax beyond cairo street markets: an application of a theory on socio-spatial contemporary practices -- Section 2. Conventional methods. Chapter 13. An argumentative review between urban morphology and energy-efficient mobility ; Chapter 14. An economic diagnosis of historical vilas in Alexandria: reuse vs. demolition ; Chapter 15. Rethinking Cairo's informal settlement in the light of hardships ; Chapter 16. Cairo's downtown in narratives: from singularity to hardship.