Cairo's urban growth and strategic master plans in the light of Egypt's 1996 population census results

Sutton, Keith; Fahmi, Wael Salah

doi:10.1016/s0264-2751(01)00006-3

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“…The literature has well noted the negative impacts of such uncontrolled outward urban development across Africa cities, including the loss of forests, environmentally sensitive areas, and productive agricultural lands (see, for example, El Araby 2002; Barredo and Demicheli 2003;Sutton and Fahmi 2001;Mundia and Aniya 2005). For example, unlimited outward extension in Lagos has led to "traffic congestion, atmospheric pollution, depletion of natural resources, increase of natural and man made risks, urban sprawl...and other negative environmental and social effects" (Barredo and Demicheli 2003: 299).…”

Section: Increase In the Number Of Urban Areas And The Rapid Physicalmentioning

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Rapidly Growing African Cities Need to Adopt Smart Growth Policies to Solve Urban Development Concerns

Arku

2009

Urban Forum

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This study reviews the smart growth concept-and identity-specific principles that could be adopted by rapidly growing African cities. Given the macroeconomic reform changes over the last two decades and given the persistently high natural population growth and continuous influx of rural residents to urban areas, the application of these principles may ensure sustainable urban development. The main assertion of this paper is that due to the rapid spatial expansion of major African cities in recent years, a more informed and thoughtful approach to urban development is needed to achieve efficiency and long-term sustainability. The current urban development pattern, which is dominated by unlimited outward extension, low-density residential developments, and haphazard patterns, is unacceptable. This pattern is destroying prime agricultural and environmentally sensitive lands, while increasing air pollution and traffic congestion. This paper suggests that these problems can be addressed by the adoption of smart growth principles. Smart growth principles promote compact urban development by concentrating growth in existing urban areas. The principles also encourage creating a strong municipal government with the authority to implement land-use legislation and regulations, developing a comprehensive physical plan to guide the location and timing of development, committing strongly to manage urban areas, and providing a wide range of housing choices that are affordable to residents of various incomes, ages, and lifestyles. The central idea of smart growth is that structured and strategic planning supports economic growth, addresses community needs, and protects the environment.

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Section: Increase In the Number Of Urban Areas And The Rapid Physicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rapidly Growing African Cities Need to Adopt Smart Growth Policies to Solve Urban Development Concerns

Arku

2009

Urban Forum

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“…Analysis of urban expansion in cities in the developing world has become more and more frequent [1][2][3][4][5]. Likewise research on the rapid growth of Asian cities is becoming increasingly abundant (see [6,7] or [8]).…”

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Urban Sprawl in the Mediterranean Urban Regions in Europe and the Crisis Effect on the Urban Land Development: Madrid as Study Case

Pacheco

Palomares

2014

Urban Studies Research

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The middle of 2007 saw the beginning of a worldwide financial crisis that led to a sharp reduction in investment based on construction and urban development. This new situation is generating a new process, characterised by a slowdown that has almost reached a standstill when compared with the frenzied development of previous decades. In order to analyse these processes, this study examines urban land use changes and the urban growth rate and spatial dynamics of the metropolitan region of Madrid. The analysis has been carried out on a large scale between two periods (2000-2006 and 2006-2009) using a regional land use geodatabase. The results show the changes in the urban land use dynamics that took place over these two periods that could characterise the cities of Mediterranean Europe, where contrarily to the general pattern in Europe built-up areas are combining scattered built-up areas with new aggregated compact developments.

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“…The evaluation of land use plans has been undertaken by various researchers (Dalton & Burby, 1994;Kaiser & Godschalk, 1995;Baer, 1997;Berke & Conroy, 2000;Xu, 2001;Ng, 2002). For example, urban and regional plans have been reviewed, analysed and critiqued with respect to urban growth issues (Sutton & Fahmi, 2001), national capital planning objectives (Gordon, 2002) and environmentally sustainable planning principles (Border, 1997;Bradley, 1999;Berke & Conroy, 2000;Ng, 2002).…”

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Balancing Economic Development and the Preservation of Agricultural Land: An Evaluation of Shanghai's Municipal Land Use Plan

Ren

Meligrana

Zhang

et al. 2008

Urban Policy and Research

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The megacity of Shanghai faces enormous planning challenges, particularly controlling rapid urban growth and preserving some of the world's most fertile agricultural land. Almost two-thirds of Shanghai's territory is classified as agricultural land. Maintaining this high ratio of agricultural land to total land area and, at the same time, accommodating a large and rapidly increasing urban population represents an immense and complex planning challenge. Shanghai has recently adopted a Municipal Land Use Plan to address some of these planning challenges. This article provides a review, analysis and critique of Shanghai's Municipal Land Use Plan. From a review of the relevant literature, this article develops a framework to evaluate Shanghai's plan. This framework provides a qualitative assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the SMLUP's overall goal of preserving arable land and fostering urban-economic development.

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Cairo's urban growth and strategic master plans in the light of Egypt's 1996 population census results

Cited by 62 publications

References 7 publications

Rapidly Growing African Cities Need to Adopt Smart Growth Policies to Solve Urban Development Concerns

Rapidly Growing African Cities Need to Adopt Smart Growth Policies to Solve Urban Development Concerns

Urban Sprawl in the Mediterranean Urban Regions in Europe and the Crisis Effect on the Urban Land Development: Madrid as Study Case

Balancing Economic Development and the Preservation of Agricultural Land: An Evaluation of Shanghai's Municipal Land Use Plan

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