This paper attempts to assess the possibility of a sustainable strategy in
Egypt by critically asking: Is sustainability possible in Egypt? This
assessment will be based on some sustainability indicators with reference
to the city periphery as an example. The research underscores the need for
an integrated multidisciplinary approach. This approach takes place
through three stages. 1.) The dialogism of speech genres by Mikhail
Bakhtin is put into practice through the both-and relation between: 3-bind
universe and 4-mind frame. This bi-relationship of the both-and method
aims at achieving the principle of sustainability and its applicability in
science, life and art- the Bakhtinian unit of speech communication. 2.)
Since the publication of "American ugliness" in 1959, it has been gaining
worldwide popularity, based on its ideas against the crisis of the
American system to intervene in the affairs of other developing countries.
3.) This paper, then, aims to link the art of answerability in literature and
the science of sustainability as a strategy of development in architecture,
specifically urban planning, and how this sustainable strategy of
answerability can be relevant to the social acts of translating one of the
ongoing projects in Egypt