Legitimizing informal housing: accommodating low-income groups in Alexandria, Egypt

Soliman, Ahmed M.

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“…We believe this concept could be fruitfully applied to other places and could thus help to conceptualise hitherto unrecognised urbanisation processes. Soliman (1996)’s account of “semi‐formal housing developments” in Alexandria features many elements of plotting. In Jakarta, plotting could be applied to the question of urbanised Kampungs, which were analysed in great detail, among others, by Simone (2014).…”

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Plot by Plot: Plotting Urbanism as an Ordinary Process of Urbanisation

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With this paper, we analyse an ordinary urban process, which has received little attention so far, and propose a new concept to take account of it: plotting urbanism. It is usually subsumed under terms like "urban informality" or "incremental urbanism" and not studied as a distinct process. In comparing Lagos, Istanbul and Shenzhen we captured four defining features of plotting urbanism: first, it unfolds in a piecemeal fashion with limited comprehensive planning. Second, it emerges from specific territorial compromises often resulting from conflicts between overlapping modes of territorial regulation, land tenure and property rights. Third, plotting is based on commodification of housing and land, which might accentuate socio-economic differentiations between property-owners, who often live in the same area, and their tenants. The term "plotting" highlights the key role of the plot in the process. It also alludes to strategic acts of collaboration for individual and collective benefit.

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“…This paper is based on the quantitative analyses of secondary data made available from the Census of Population, Buildings and Units, and Households' Living Conditions in 1986, 1996and 1997/2007, and 2007/2013; mainly to be comparable with census data. Housing production indicators by housing level and sector include: total and annual number of planned 10 and produced units, achievement rates, shortages and/or surpluses, and the contribution of each sector to housing shortage/surpluses.…”

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Housing Production In Urban Egypt: The Inert Formal Sector Versus The Ungovernable Informal Sector

Bakr

2016

Journal of Urban Research

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By focusing on formal and informal housing production both at the national and governorate levels, this paper argues that while formal housing production over the 1982/2013 period is characterized by inert capacity in addition to major deviation from plan leading to acute economic housing shortages, it is not solely the main driver of informal housing production. In other words, overproduction is an intrinsic characteristic of the informal sector; while it has been responsive to acute formal housing shortages in several governorates; it has not been responsive to actual housing needs. The analyses of formal housing at the national level showed that significant economic housing shortages during the 1997/2013 period are partially explained by the inert capacity of the formal sector and the private sector's shift away from economic housing towards middle income housing. During the1996/2006 and 2006/2013 time periods, formal housing production at the governorate level only achieved targets and small surpluses in a few small and medium size governorates while it contributed to significant housing shortages in the largest governorates in the Greater Cairo Region and Alexandria. The analyses of formal and informal housing production during the 1996/2006 period showed that: there was an overproduction of 1.4 million housing units; production in the informal sector contributed more to housing production than the formal sector; production in the formal sector was uneven and failed to cover housing needs in many governorates; and production in the informal sector was excessive and highly concentrated. The informal sector accounted for almost 74.8 % of total overproduction during the 1996/2006 period, of which 70 % was in the three governorates of Cairo, Alexandria and Qalyoubia.

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“…), une analyse des transformations urbaines, démographiques et géographiques de la ville. Également sur l'évolution de la morphologie d'Alexandrie, mais aussi sur l'épineuse question du logement, Ahmed Soliman (1987Soliman ( , 1992Soliman ( , 1996 et Hassan Abdel Salam (1995) ont apporté des éclairages essentiels. Les dates le montrent bien cependant : tous ces textes ne sont pas particulièrement récents.…”

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Introduction. Banaliser Alexandrie

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2018

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Legitimizing informal housing: accommodating low-income groups in Alexandria, Egypt

Cited by 21 publications

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Plot by Plot: Plotting Urbanism as an Ordinary Process of Urbanisation

Plot by Plot: Plotting Urbanism as an Ordinary Process of Urbanisation

Housing Production In Urban Egypt: The Inert Formal Sector Versus The Ungovernable Informal Sector

Introduction. Banaliser Alexandrie

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