Urbanism In Egypt Research Articles

An Asymmetric Nexus between Urbanization and Technological Innovation and Environmental Sustainability in Ethiopia and Egypt: What Is the Role of Renewable Energy?

The present study investigates the nexus between urbanization, technological innovation, renewable energy consumption, and environmental quality in Egypt and Ethiopia from 1980 to 2020 by employing symmetric and asymmetric frameworks. Referring to symmetric assessment, the coefficient of renewable energy consumption and technological innovation revealed a negative and statistically significant tie with environmental sustainability, valid for both proxies. Study findings suggest that clean energy integration and technological innovations in the economy decrease environmental adversity by reducing carbon emissions and ecological blames. Although the elasticity of urbanization has documented a positive and statistically significant connection with environmental sustainability, the conclusion is valid for both models. Second, in the long run, the asymmetric shocks of renewable energy consumption and technological innovation have exposed a negative and statistically significant tie to environmental sustainability, whereas in the case of urbanization, the asymmetric shocks unveiled a positive and statistically significant association to environmental sustainability. Third, the study revealed that the feedback hypothesis explains the relationship between technological innovation and environmental sustainability [TI←→EF] in Egypt and ecological footprint and urbanization in Egypt and Ethiopia. Moreover, unidirectional causality runs from ecological footprint to renewable energy consumption in Egypt and Ethiopia.

Modeling and prediction of expected informal growth in the Greater Cairo Region, Egypt

Informal settlement growth is a vital challenge for developing countries, which requires monitoring and assessment by urban planners and city managers. Rural migration to urban areas leads to the unplanned expansion that grows within and beyond the city’s official boundaries. Although informal housing (IH) is growing fast, very little attention is oriented toward exploring tools and procedures for predicting its future expansion. Many studies have shown that informal housing is widespread and represents one of the most dominant features of urbanization in Egypt. Modern simulation and modeling technologies provide new methodologies to explore the complexity of urban growth. As a result, many planning models were developed and successfully used to simulate the spread of planned settlements in developed nations. However, the implementation of these models rarely achieves realistic simulation in the case of unplanned growth due to the developer’s field of study and the available resources. The main objective is to simulate the expected informal housing by modeling its causative land use factors in the Greater Cairo Region. This paper develops a predictive model that anticipates the spatial distribution of unplanned growth and where informal housing is likely to occur over a period based on known growth factors. The proposed Informal Housing Growth Model derives its principles from cellular automata and geographic information system technologies. This model uses a multi-criteria concept, including parameters and conditions related to informal growth, and can be adapted to other growth factors.

Towards a Refined New Concept of New Urbanism in Egypt

This paper introduces a method to apply the principles of New Urbanism in an Egyptian neighbourhood unit. It extends to their relationship with the common dimensions of urban design. It proposes four objectives: a) Interpret the new concepts of New Urbanism, b) Cite principles of Urbanism and trends emanating from it, c) Discover the structure of the philosophical concept of urbanization and d) Design a matrix inventories the compatibility of the principles of New Urbanism and urban design dimensions. Finally, the matrix tests the combination of the principles and the dimensions in a traditional Egyptian urban fabric, Basilica Church Plaza.

Road energy consumption, economic growth, population and urbanization in Egypt: cointegration and causality analysis

The study investigates the causal relationships between road energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization and population growth in Egypt over the period (1980–2011). I use Johansen cointegration approach, vector error correction model (VECM), generalized impulse response functions and variance decomposition technique. The results show the existence of long-run relationship between the variables. Moreover, the results indicate the existence of unidirectional long-run causality running from road energy consumption to urbanization and from road energy consumption to economic growth which implies the existence of growth hypothesis in the long run. Also, there is bidirectional short-run causality between road energy consumption and economic growth, which indicates the existence of feedback hypothesis in the short run. These results imply that road energy consumption determines economic growth in the both short run and long run and economic growth causes road energy consumption in the short run. And according to these results, several policy implications will be suggested for policymakers. They should take into consideration while implementing energy conservation policies, the possible negative effect on economic growth and have to concentrate on technological development policies and to make a shift towards using clean alternative fuel as natural gas and focus on investment in renewable energy resources.

بناء إطار فکري نحو فهم التحولات العمرانية للواجهة النهرية Constructing a Conceptual Framework towards Understanding Urban Transformations of Waterfronts

تزخر مصر بالعديد من المدن النهرية والتي يلعب فيها نهر النيل دورا بارزا في صياغة عمرانها. وتمثل الواجهة النهرية بؤرة الصراع بين شبکة معقدة متداخلة من القوى الحاکمة، ويظهر فيها نتاج ذلک الصراع في أشد وأکمل صوره. إلا أن تلک الواجهة النهرية الممتدة من أقصى مصر إلى أقصاها لم تنل القدر الکافي من الدراسة لتحديدها وتنميطها وفهم التحولات الحادثة بها. تلک الدراسة لازمة وأساسية نحو منظومة إدارة وتحکم عمراني راشدة وفاعلة. يعد هذا البحث خطوة أولى وأساسية نحو دراسة وفهم عمران النهر بمصر، کونه يضع إطارا فکريا/نظريا لکيفية تحديد الواجهة النهرية وتنميطها ودراسة التحولات العمرانية بها والقوى الحاکمة لتلک التحولات. ولوضع هذا الإطار، يقوم البحث بمراجعة نقدية للعديد من الکتابات العلمية فى مجالات التصميم والتخطيط العمرانى والاقتصاد السياسى وإدارة العمران مجمعا ومرکبا للأسس والأفکار والنظريات المطروحة فى هذا الصدد. Egypt has many river cities in which the Nile River plays a significant role in shaping its urbanism. The waterfront of these cities stands as the nucleus of an arena in which a conflict takes place among an interrelated interconnected web of forces. The outcome of this city-scale conflict takes its utmost form in the city's waterfront. However, Egyptian waterfronts have not been well studied to effectively identify its boundaries, typologies, transformation patterns and shaping forces. This study is crucial if an effective urban management proposal of these waterfronts is sought. This research stands as a first step towards understanding waterfront urbanism in Egypt. It constructs a conceptual/theoretical framework of how to identify waterfronts' boundaries, typologies and forces behind its urban transformations. To construct this framework, this theoretical paper critically reviews ample literature in the fields of urban planning and design, political economy, and urban management, analyzing and bringing together diverse concepts and theories.

Resource-based zoning map for sustainable industrial development in north sinai using remote sensing and multicriteria evaluation

Due to rapid urbanization in Egypt, the need for job creation and redistribution of population became a top priority for the Egyptian government. Creating infrastructure and new industrial zones in Sinai Peninsula can participate in solving the problem. Geographic Information System (GIS) and Spatial Multicriteria Evaluation (SMCE) have been widely used to analyze the land utilization based on the land’s potentials and constraints. Using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation model, meteorological data and various land use information, a holistic approach involving generation of thematic maps for two themes, natural resources theme and a least-cost theme, was adopted. Data such as accessibility, soil type, land cover, utilities and other ancillary information was employed to arrive at a locale-specifi c prescription for an industrial land use strategy. Analytical hierarchy process was conducted to investigate the resource-based suitability while minimizing cost of development using various spatial data. Expert knowledge was used to weigh factors within the natural resources theme based on three development objectives (scenarios). Running the weighted overlay model for each of the three objectives, three suitability index maps were produced. Potential sites for developing new industrial zones were identifi ed based on the high suitability values for each scenario. Results highlight a good opportunity for

TOWARDS A SUGGESTED METHODOLOGY TO REDUCTION VERTICAL URBANEXPANSION IN EGYPTIAN TOWNS AFTER 25 JAN REVOLUTION CASE STUDY; THE PHENOMENON OF RESIDENTIAL TOWERS VIOLATION AT ALEXANDRIA CITY

The January 25 revolution happened in Egypt between supporters and dismissive , and as a habit of revolutions they talked a lot of changes in people, and sometimes lead to split the forces of the people , and the emergence of clusters and several political movements . Influenced by this country seriously affected sometimes leads to the disintegration and division in the structure of the country , it is about to collapse unless rectify the matter by the concerned officials . Hence the negative effects occur on all aspects of society and the environment surrounding it. Since the architecture is the pulse of the community, and a reflection of the culture , as well as a measure of how attended , there has been a significant change in terms of architectural cities of Egypt after the revolution of January 25, this change appeared in the form of Vertical expansion abuse of residential buildings amounts in height , for the environment surrounding streets located where . This current expansion in all Egyptian cities such as illness incurable . The city of Alexandria is one of the most important coastal cities of distinctive historic character and architectural style on the Mediterranean coast in general and the Arab region in particular, there is now creates residential buildings violating the rise, and that does not fit at all with the nature of the soil and stratification in some areas of the city of Alexandria , as well as the lack of architectural relationship between the ratio of the height of the building housing the street overlooking it, and respect the laws of building in the city . And has become a phenomenon of high towers , which grew at random and scary, in the narrow streets exceed 5 meters and sometimes less , a recurring architectural phenomena , monitored by the citizen in Alexandria easily everywhere here and there. This research aims to monitor and analyze this phenomenon constructivism, to expand the vertical current residential buildings offense in Alexandria , and try to stand on the causes of social and political after the revolution, and that led to the clarity of the phenomenon and its risks and negative harm to the Egyptian citizen within the city. As well as visualize systematic practical, offers a range of proposals from the perspective of the researcher , to reduce this phenomenon, and encourage the emergence of the role of the state and legislative institutions , and the contribution of the media and its positive role in raising the awareness of the individual and the family as a whole. Keywords: growth vertical Alexandria - residential towers violation architecture and 25 January revolution - urbanization in Egypt

Spatial disintegration and arable land security in Egypt: A study of small- and moderate-sized urban areas

While commonly associated with regional ‘mega-cities’, rapid urbanization in the less-developed world has also begun to define growth in small- and moderate-sized settlements on the periphery of major metropolitan areas. The dispersal of population growth to these smaller areas holds significant implications for environmental, economic, and social health, and threatens local food security, increases congestions, and induces difficulty in service provision. This study examines the effects of spatial disintegration and rapid urbanization in the stock of arable land in Egypt. To assess this issue, the study will meet three objectives. First, we evaluate the relationship between population growth and urban land cover expansion in small- and moderate-sized settlements in Egypt. Second, we consider the role of selected geographic determinants in influencing the growth of these areas through the use of a regression model. The selection of an appropriate model type is a sub-objective and will be discussed further. Third, these drivers of growth will be assessed through their effects on the country’s stock of arable land. These objectives will be met through the development and application of the regression models, in order to examine the relationship between urban land expansion and several independent variables. An increase in population is found to have a positive and statistically significant effect on corresponding urban land cover area. Surprisingly, the variables commonly associated with urbanization in Egypt – proximity to major roads, the capital of Cairo, and the Nile River – though exhibiting a positive relationship with urban growth, are not statistically significant in the selected case studies. This research underlines the necessity for a combined approach to policy formation – with input from policy fields as varied as agriculture, urban planning, and land reclamation – to slow outward growth and maintain arable land stocks.

MEDITERRANEAN VISUAL MESSAGES: THE CONUNDRUM OF IDENTITY, ISMS, AND MEANING IN CONTEMPORARY EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE

Egypt like many of the Mediterranean countries is an amalgam of influences. Its rich history and unique geographical position afforded many opportunities for the emergence of architectural trends and movements. This article presents a new positional interpretation of contemporary Egyptian architecture. It is culled from a spectrum of issues I have presented in several events and published in local and international conferences and trade magazines. However, it calls for a fresh look at the issue of meaning in architecture by critically analyzing the current status of architecture in Egypt through a reading of trends that emerged over the last decade. The article discusses the concepts of Mediterraneanism and Middle Easternism in association with the situation of architecture and urbanism in Egypt. A number of ISMS including postmodernism, historical revivalism, critical regionalism and confusing symbolism are identified and reviewed and representative examples are critically analyzed. The article concludes by outlining an approach for a deeper insight toward the understanding of meaning in Egyptian architecture.

Market mechanisms and spontaneous urbanization in Egypt: the Cairo case*

Market mechanisms and spontaneous urbanization in Egypt: the Cairo case*

The Effects of World Capitalist Economy on Urbanization in Egypt, 1800–1970

This research paper provides an historical analysis of urbanization in Egypt and its relationships to her incorporation into the world capitalist economy during the last two centuries. My major concern is to discover more about the following issues: (1) the historical reasons for the structural disjunction of the peasant population from rural areas; and (2) the dynamics of rural–urban migration and the problem of overconcentration of population in a few major urban centers.

Urbanization in Egypt: Present State and Future Prospects

Many students of urbanism have suggested that countries in the early stages of industrialization suffer an imbalance in both the size and distribution of their urban populations, implying primarily that they have a higher percentage of people living in cities and towns tha is warranted at their stage of economic development. The term used to describe this phenomenon is over-urbanization, 1 which refers to the end result of excessive migration of un and underemployed rural folk to the cities in advance of adequate expansion of urban employment opportunities. One consequence of this premature migration is the high rate of unemployment and/or marginal employment in the labor forces of the great cities of Asia and Africa