(The Comprehensive Urban Development of Egypt in the 21st Century) Development of the Urban (Towards a Strategy for Communities in Egypt) (The Case of Al-Mansoura City in Dakahlia Province).

Authors

Mohamed Almekawy, Department of Architecture., Faculty of Engineering., Al-Mansoura University., Mansoura., EgyptFollow

Corresponding Author

Almekawy, Mohamed

Subject Area

Architectural Engineering

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

The urban communities in Egypt suffer from a \01 of problems which affect negatively the social, economic, environmental quality of people life in these communities. The most important problems arc: the continous and increased need (or housing in the lime that slum areas increased, poverty and increased unemployment due to the shortage of job opportunities as a result of weakness of the economic base of these communities. the shortage of infrastructure and services, and environmental pollution produced from the increase quantities of waste.The strategic approach to develop the urban communities in Egypt depends mainly on overcoming these main problems in order to improve the quality of people life specially the poor. This paper discusses developing the urban community in Almansoura city is a Case study, and proposes a strategy for developing it This proposed strategy may contribute as a guide for developing other urban communities in Egypt.

Recommended Citation

Almekawy, Mohamed (2020) "(The Comprehensive Urban Development of Egypt in the 21st Century) Development of the Urban (Towards a Strategy for Communities in Egypt) (The Case of Al-Mansoura City in Dakahlia Province).," Mansoura Engineering Journal: Vol. 33 : Iss. 3 , Article 1.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.21608/bfemu.2020.127247