Abstract
The last few decades, Egypt drawn into a dramatic socio-economic change that causes a relative change in adopted development patterns. Different typologies of new residential districts have turned from globalized westernized world into Egyptian context. Planners and authority thought that changing adopted development patterns from traditional to modern neighborhood could provide solutions for old town's problems. On the other hand, different scholars have emphasized that traditional compact, mixed use, high-density urban forms are important for reaching sustainability goals in term of environmental, economic and social advantages. Based on a comparison of the sustainability of three case studies Shubra, Heliopolis, and new Cairo city; this research examine analyze the sustainability of New Egyptian Settlements. The analysis depends on observation and spatial analysis to investigate the variations of performances between the three case studies in terms of urban, social, environmental, and economic sustainability indicators. The research aims to assess the sustainability of moving from traditional to modern urban form in GCR' new towns and to extract development criteria and lessons learned from traditional urban form to enhance the sustainability of modern settlements. The research concluded that both traditional early developed settlements like Shubra and new planned settlements like new Cairo recorded low performance in sustainability issues, each one in its own way; and that early planned settlements like Heliopolis recorded moderate performance in sustainability issues, this paves the way for criteria to prepare new plans of new settlements and provide intensification repair tools to fix existing new settlements.
Highlights
Cairo exposed to different dramatic shifts that produced different typologies of adopted urban development patterns that are different in density, land-use pattern, housing income pattern, and street network pattern
Cairo has been exposed to different dramatic shifts that produced deferent typologies of urban development patterns that are different in density, land-use, housing income and street network
It introduces some evaluation indicators that are derived from two evaluation criteria, modern theories of sustainable urban form versus local context in terms of unique environmental, social, and economic circumstances
Summary
Cairo exposed to different dramatic shifts that produced different typologies of adopted urban development patterns that are different in density, land-use pattern, housing income pattern, and street network pattern. The wright choice of development pattern is important to positively affect communities’ development. It should be chosen to fit its region unique characteristics in term of social, economic and environmental circumstances to achieve better urban development. All decision makers and planners proposed different development patterns in an attempt to satisfy the required development. Egyptian authorities adopted modern neighborhood with hope to introduce better solution to solve the problems of traditional cities. Their socio-spatial characteristics cause many development problems to the social-spatial fabric of new Egyptian cities. As a step to achieve applicable sustainability guidelines for developing new settlements in Egypt, the research aims to compare the sustainability of traditional settlements with modern new settlements in Egypt to detect lessons learned from traditional urban form to enhance the sustainability of modern settlements
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