Towards More Human Cities in Egypt: Human-City Urban Planning Model HCUPM

Abstract

Cities accommodate over 50% of the world's population, a percentage that is expected to increase to 70% by 2050. Despite the indisputable significance of cities for our future, living in some cities has been a challenge; 91% of city residents live in polluted areas and face human casualties resulting from car accidents and health crises. In Egypt, new cities are being built aiming to create healthier environments. However, those cities are not always better places to live due to the lack of the human dimension in their planning. There is hence a great need for an approach that focuses on the ability to revive and restore this dimension in Egyptian cities. Based on a number of theoretical and analytical studies, the paper aims to develop a model that can measure the degree of the humanity of cities, thus, providing planners with a human-city urban planning model (HCUP Model). The model is expected to act as a contingency proactive planning tool for mitigating the negative impacts of our cities on human life and ensuring the integration of the human dimension in the planning process of our future cities. The research methodology includes an analytical examination of the most pressing issues confronting cities today, followed by the definition and principles of human cities, based on the theoretical study and analytical study of the most important global human city experiences, a proposed model for the human city (HCUPM) that can be applied in Egyptian cities will be developed. The model will be audited using a questionnaire for Egyptian experts in the field of urban planning.