Cities have an urban townscape with urban and social characteristics that define and highlight the personality and identity of each city. Based on the reading and analysis of some previous studies, this research aims to provide a platform for building a knowledge base on the concept of the urban townscape, which is a critical aspect of the urban environment, highlighting the dynamism of apparent and latent systems as well as upgrading the urban townscape in those cities to achieve compatibility between the whole and the part and to move from separation to integration in the urban townscape. The study adopts a qualitative approach due to its exploratory nature. Previous studies dealt with the concept of the townscape in the urban environment.

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