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This paper mainly explores the effect of physical development on urban communities using strategic planning methodology. Strategic planning in Egypt is a set o f steps that is app lied in a system to achieve a set o f documents and strategic policies to function in a definite period of time. This planning method has been widely used over the past years in Egypt in order to address fundamental key issues in the Egyptian city and develop planning techniques.Governments are resp onsible for developing framework policies that both initiate and guide the decision-making process, setting the proper conditions for effective regional and local planning, to suit the country in which these process are applied in, but one of its frameworks is strategic planning which is faced with two main problems while conducting it:1) The urban community problems;2) The implementation of these planning strategies. So the output of such process should be much more than merely a plan document or a vision statement, but has to be real life so lutions valid to raise the life style of the Egyptian people, accommodating a rapidly growing population, providing them with adequate infrastructure network and shelter while ensuring sustainability in addition to enhancing economic growth. Going through the guidelines of the planning system in Egypt and c oncluding the paper with the case study of R ashid city strategic planning process, its implementation system and, so far, the obstacles facing it.