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Heterotopia is the other place where every community lives, works, and socializes via its life, within which there is a network of public spaces supporting its social life, as well as connecting this heterotopia to other heterotopias within a metropolitan. Cairo, as well, is a metropolitan with distinct heterotopias, that, in turn, representing the manifestation of power shaped their public spaces network. Nodes and connectors are a new typology, introduced by this paper, constituted the network of public open spaces within each heterotopia to understand the manifestation of power over their articulation. Two distinct heterotopias are investigated: Madinet Nasr which represents public-sectorpower over its public spaces’ production; and New Cairo which represents the empowerment of private-sector over the same. Through this investigation, this paper concludes that in Cairene context since 1952, public sector is more concerned about the resilience of movement for individuals by providing accessible public spaces (connectors) among the whole society at equally opportunity, however not concerned about the social nature of the public spaces (nodes typology). While private sector, on the other hand, gives more concern about the social nature of public spaces, regarding the nodes typology, regardless giving equal opportunities among the whole society to access these nodes through its connectors.