Abstract
During the last 20 years, geographic information systems (GIS) have emerged from the scientific laboratories into the heart of conventional planning practice. During this period, planners have been aggressive adopters and adapters, and strong advocates for local governments deploying GIS. This is true at least in part because GIS provides spatial analysis and manipulation capabilities that align closely with the professional needs of urban and regional planners. GIS technology is currently converging with several other technologies to provide new levels of accessibility and functionality. As GIS use becomes more widespread, planners make up less of the market. The aim of this paper is to study the potential of GIS applications in supporting strategic urban planning process for effective urban governance in sustainable urban development projects in Egypt, and developing the capacity and the empowerment of local administration tools, decision-making and good control for urban areas. As well, to interface the complex problems of urbanization, unplanned and negative impacts on the facilities and services and the environment in general in the cities of developing countries.
Highlights
Urban strategic planning allows local governments to enlist the participation of social actors, to achieve consensus about policies and projects and to encourage partnerships aimed at proposing, implementing and evaluating projects
Material and Methods 3.1 Issues of Urban Planning in Egypt According to the UN, approximately 50% of the global urban population can be classified as slum dwellers individuals who suffer from inadequate access to safe water, sanitation and other infrastructure; poor structural quality of housing; overcrowding; and/ or insecure residential status
The first data type is constructed around raster images of varying resolution, which provide a visual backdrop. These raster images provide the basis for the shack vectors map of the site, to which shack numbers can be added to provide dwelling identification
Summary
Urban strategic planning allows local governments to enlist the participation of social actors, to achieve consensus about policies and projects and to encourage partnerships aimed at proposing, implementing and evaluating projects. Sustainability is the condition or state that would allow the continued existence of homo sapiens, and it is the goal we would like to achieve. We have to find a way to equitably distribute wealth (in the form of access to resources and opportunities) and increase prosperity for all This line of reasoning led us to the so-called three pillars of sustainable development – people (social development), the planet (ecological protection) and prosperity (economic development). In other words Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs As such it requires the promotion of values that encourage consumption standards that are within the bounds of the ecologically possible and to which all could reasonably aspire." Our Common Future, (WCED, 1987)
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