Sustainable Planning in Egypt between two different Approaches

Abstract

Egypt has an extensive uninhabited area on the eastern and the westerndesert. The populated areas are about 8% of the whole area of Egypt. The studyfocuses on developing economic, social, touristic, and industrial growth throughenhancing planning, urban development, and government's policies. Across the lastfifty years there was an awkward planning policies and urban development plansfor new cities in Egypt. Still, a more professional posture is required to enhance theplanning policies of the unbuilt environment. Egypt across the last fifty years usedtwo different planning approaches in its way for solving the problem of populationgrowth and the concentration of the population around the Nile valley.This paper aims to explore Egypt's policy of planning the new cities andhow Egypt can develop new regulations and policies to enhance and utilize thepotential of unused land in Egypt. This is in addition to identifying the mostappropriate planning approach that is compatible with Egypt's conditions. In orderfor this paper to reach its objectives, it will conduct a comparative analysis betweenthe two urban planning approaches pursued by the state to identify the advantagesand disadvantages of each, and to recommend the most efficient and sustainableapproach.