Urban identity and lifestyles of gated communities in Egypt

Multi-Objective Decision-Making Tool for Envelope Energy Retrofitting Measures of Gated Community Housing in Egypt

“…Gated communities are spreading rapidly worldwide: in Egypt, the number of gated communities in Cairo increased from 466 in 2010 to 500 in 2013 [11]. They are distributed on the outskirts of Cairo in the new cities surrounding it, such as New Cairo, 6th of October, El-Obour, and El-Shorouk City [12]. Gated community dwellings vary from one-family separate villas and semi-detached units to apartment complexes.…”

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“…At the level of urban planning, the social identity aspect exists in the form of group identity, which involves both the categorisation of the "in-group" concerning the "out-group" and the tendency to perceive personal group with a positive bias towards other groups (Nientied et al, 2022). The physical space of this type of formation is expressed by the specifics of lifestyle and can be either closed (Farid & Ahmed, 2018) Here, in 2012, a residential environment was created on the site of one of the largest art colonies in Europe. The cross-cutting idea in the organisation of such a formation was to preserve the artistic component and create opportunities for the realisation of the author's ideas at the level of organising the subject-spatial environment.…”

A critical landscape and urban design analysis of Egypt’s new Administrative Capital City

“…86 In this way, the presence of luxuriant greenspace becomes a barometer for the wealth and power of those commissioning the project. 87 As attested to above, given the foreseen lacuna of affordable housing, public transport and informal economy jobs, and the isolation of governance functions, the new Administrative Capital City clearly will struggle to deliver the normative framework's aspirations for inclusivity, civic engagement, sense of belonging for all and social cohesion. 88…”