Criteria of Developing and Improving the New Urban Cities in Northern Egypt Province (The Case of New Minia City)

Abstract

Statistics and researches ensure that most of the New Cities in Egypt haven't achieved the target they have been established for. They haven't succeeded to attract the population increase in the mother cities. A strange contradiction has appeared between the housing and peopling case in a big number of these new cities where you can see uninhabited building. This case clearly indicates that there is a drawback (defect) that hinders these cities fulfilling the aimed goals.Consequently, this research aims to shed light on the criteria of improving and developing the urban housing areas in the new cities, applying the study case on New Minia as a model of the New Egyptian Cities, trying to point out how far it has succeeded or failed to realize these criteria and achieve the targeted development.This study has hypothesized that the lack to apply a comprehensive collection of criteria of improvement and development for housing areas in the New Egyptian cities is the main factor that forbids these cities from reaching the rate of development aimed at.To prove its hypotheses, the research has applied the following procedure. First; a theoretical study for the aims and criteria of the urban improvement and development planned (set) to develop The New Cities. Second; studying analyzing the applied study in the housing areas in the New urban communities (in New Minia. The research [study] has resulted in a collection of results and recommendations that necessitates setting up a number of criteria for the needed development so as to include in the overall planning for the new cities in order to ensure the comprehensive development and having a secial vision according to the circumstances of each new city.