Investigating Pupils’ Responses to Urban Spaces Around Schools: Actions for a Responsive Environment

Schools of upper secondary education play an essential role in the development of society. However, the city's architects focus on school buildings with less attention to the surrounding places. The public spaces attached to schools were not initially designed for pupils and resulted from their needs and activities. This paper focuses on the relationship between the role of various uses and activities in the surroundings of school research and the overlooked public spaces attached to secondary schools. The purpose is to evaluate the variety of services, forms, and meanings in the context of secondary schools. Building upon the literature review, this article conducted a questionnaire launch to pupils of three secondary schools, the space syntax approach to measuring spatial configuration, and on-site observation of the public spaces around the three cases in Cairo. According to the factors that were looked at, people with additional needs can use different activities and uses. The findings show some of the random activities are unsatisfactory for pupils and the community around the school. As a result, the paper concludes that people with different needs can use other activities additional.