Planning in Egypt is up to this day central and top down triggering an urgent need for an enabling planning process. The paper investigates interrelation between social, technological and spatial development through exploring how knowledge about the city is gained, and transferred by different actors (planners/designers, stakeholders, the public, etc.). In addition, the paper map How urban planning is communicated and visualised to the public sphere in a politically sensitive context like Egypt. Who delivers messages about the urban environment and its challenges and to whom? In the end, recommendations about how can decision making processes in the city be enhanced through informative communication & visualisation. The paper follows qualitative methodology by collecting data through interviews with planners, politicians, media experts and citizens, as well as critical analysis of media materials about the urban enviroment. The paper aims to describe the possibilities for mediatised urban planning in Egypt as a part of a larger Phd and research work in the interdisciplinary Leibniz Research Group on ―Mediatisation processes in urban planning and changes in the public sphere‖ between TU Berlin and Institute of Social and Spatial Research in Erkner, germany.