Considerable attention has been paid in recent years to the rapid progress of applications and advanced techniques in various fields. This in turn, requires planners interested in the field of sustainable Urban development to maximize the benefits of these technologies so that they can be used to enhance the identity of local communities. and stimulate the Community Engagement. In this context, this paper reviews an experience of the author who participated in encouraging community engagement (for residents of a residential complex in Sheikh Zayed City, Egypt) as a means of building community consensus. Such consensus will revolve around identification of goals, problems, priorities, mechanisms and addressing them in order to achieve a sustainable liveable environment. The importance of this paper resides in how to adopt a community engagement approach and enables the local community to express its requirements, needs and desires with democratic tools. Therefore, this paper aims to highlight the importance of consultation and community engagement in strengthening the identity of local community. this paper will be concluded with set of recommendations and lessons learned to be adopted in future for similar experiences in terms of the socio- economic and cultural heritage of such societies.
 
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