Greater Cairo’s housing crisis: Contested spaces from inner city areas to new communities

Fahmi, Wael Salah; Sutton, Keith

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2008.06.001

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“…In addition, the construction industry in Egypt is still characterised by its poor quality [3][4]. As a consequence, the existing built environment reflect a repetition of minimalistic, identical, modular and poorly constructed residential blocks that are strongly dependent on environmental control-equipment [5].…”

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Development of benchmark models for the Egyptian residential buildings sector

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The aim of this study is to develop representative simulation building energy data sets and benchmark models for the Egyptian residential sector. This study reports the results of a recent field survey for residential apartment buildings in Egypt. Two building performance simulation models are created reflecting the average energy consumption characteristics of air-conditioned residential apartments in Alexandria, Cairo and Asyut. Aiming for future evaluation of the cost and energy affects of the new Egyptian energy standard this study established two detailed models describing the energy use profiles for air-conditioners, lighting, domestic hot water and appliances in respect to buildings layout and construction. Using EnergyPlus simulation tool the collected surveyed data was used as input for two building simulation models. The simulation models were verified against the apartment characteristic found in the survey. This paper presents details of the building models including the energy use patterns and profiles created for this study. Development of Benchmark Models for the Egyptian Residential Buildings SectorThe aim of this study is to develop representative simulation building energy data sets and benchmark models for the Egyptian residential sector. This study reports the results of a recent field survey for residential apartment buildings in Egypt. Two building performance simulation models are created reflecting the average energy consumption characteristics of air-conditioned residential apartments in Alexandria, Cairo and Asyut. Aiming for future evaluation of the cost and energy affects of the new Egyptian energy standard this study established two detailed models describing the energy use profiles for air-conditioners, lighting, domestic hot water and appliances in respect to buildings layout and construction. Using EnergyPlus simulation tool the collected surveyed data was used as input for two building simulation models. The simulation models were verified against the apartment characteristic found in the survey. This paper presents details of the building models including the energy use patterns and profiles created for this study.

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“…In reality, there is no official documentation on the history of slums and informal settlements in Cairo. Nevertheless, many studies have tied their emergence and progressive growth to the failure of state housing policies, laws, and delivery systems in Egypt (El Araby, 2003;Fahmi & Sutton, 2008;Harris & Wahba, 2002) combined with State indifference and inaction in sanctioning their growth (Dorman, 2007).…”

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“…In response to the massive rural migration influx to the city that was attracted by the high concentration of public-sector industries in the city, public housing and civil servant housing projects were launched by the socialist government to meet the resultant excess demand for housing. These projects were constructed around newly established industrial centers and on the outskirts and cleared "slum" areas of the city (Fahmi & Sutton, 2008). The target in the Five Year-Plan 1960e1965 was to fund building 14,500 units through the nationalized policy (El Araby, 2003).…”

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“…Except for a few scattered towns, the other two sectors of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan are located in the urbanized section of two adjacent governorates; namely Giza lying on the west bank of the Nile and Qualubya in the north of the Cairo governorate. Geographically, the Cairo governorate extends over the east bank of the Nile from Shubra in the north and Heliopolis and Nasr City in the northeast to Helwan in the south (Fahmi & Sutton, 2008). Administratively, Cairo is divided into 292 shiakhas.…”

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Using GIS in constructing area-based physical deprivation index in Cairo Governorate, Egypt

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Hamed

2010

Habitat International

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“…Adding the aforementioned opposition, our purpose is to understand how accessibility can be newly analyzed and discussed. This opposition allows us to include topics like 'gated communities' (Hook and Vrdoljak, 2002;Abrahamson, 2004;Libertun de Duren, 2006;Vesselinov et al, 2007;Fahmi and Sutton, 2008;Van Melik et al, 2009;Rosen and Razin, 2009) or 'gentrification' (Márquez and Pérez, 2008;Vesselinov, 2008) into the analysis.…”

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Landscape Accessibility: Spaces for Accessibility or Spaces for Communication?

Semm¹,

Palang²

2010

Living Rev. Landscape Res.

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This article gives an overview of contemporary studies on landscape accessibility. We focus on the broadened meaning of the term, where accessibility is not delimited with territorial access. The overview of landscape accessibility is widened by post-structural approaches. Discursive, socio-political and semiotic aspects are introduced, and the examples of different emerging conflicts, such as exclusion, segregation, or the creation of different social identities, are presented. In the discussion, additional need for understanding accessibility as the creation of spaces for communication is argued pointing to the valuing of conflicting meanings in accessibility-inaccessibility opposition.

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Greater Cairo’s housing crisis: Contested spaces from inner city areas to new communities

Cited by 39 publications

References 11 publications

Development of benchmark models for the Egyptian residential buildings sector

Development of benchmark models for the Egyptian residential buildings sector

Using GIS in constructing area-based physical deprivation index in Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Landscape Accessibility: Spaces for Accessibility or Spaces for Communication?

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