Will Distance to the Capital City Matter When Supplying New Cities in Egypt?

Ibrahim, Mohamed R.; Masoumi, Houshmand E.

doi:10.1515/geosc-2016-0004

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“…Around Caïro, desert cities such as 6th of October City, 10th of Ramadan City and New Cairo, amongst others, have been developed since the 1970s and 1980s [56]. This process has also gradually impacted Middle and Upper Egypt from the 1990s and 2000s onwards, with new towns being planned near Minya, Assiut and Qena, amongst others [57].…”

Section: Urban and Agricultural Land Dynamicsmentioning

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Mapping and Quantifying the Human-Environment Interactions in Middle Egypt Using Machine Learning and Satellite Data Fusion Techniques

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Population growth in rural areas of Egypt is rapidly transforming the landscape. New cities are appearing in desert areas while existing cities and villages within the Nile floodplain are growing and pushing agricultural areas into the desert. To enable control and planning of the urban transformation, these rapid changes need to be mapped with high precision and frequency. Urban detection in rural areas in optical remote sensing is problematic when urban structures are built using the same materials as their surroundings. To overcome this limitation, we propose a multi-temporal classification approach based on satellite data fusion and artificial neural networks. We applied the proposed methodology to data of the Egyptian regions of El-Minya and part of Asyut governorates collected from 1998 until 2015. The produced multi-temporal land cover maps capture the evolution of the area and improve the urban detection of the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative Sentinel-2 Prototype Land Cover 20 m map of Africa and the Global Human Settlements Layer from the Joint Research Center (JRC). The extension of urban and agricultural areas increased over 65 km2 and 200 km2, respectively, during the entire period, with an accelerated increase analysed during the last period (2010–2015). Finally, we identified the trends in urban population density as well as the relationship between farmed and built-up land.

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Section: Urban and Agricultural Land Dynamicsmentioning

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Mapping and Quantifying the Human-Environment Interactions in Middle Egypt Using Machine Learning and Satellite Data Fusion Techniques

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“…In Egypt, the distance between the neighbourhood and the capital city may influence individual choices, giving that their jobs or family members may live in the capital city (Greater Cairo). Hence, the distance to the capital city could play a role in selecting between neighbourhoods in different new cities based on how far they are from the capital (Ibrahim and Masoumi 2016). A deeper inquiry into the reason of "nice neighbourhood" for selecting housing location also revealed that the most significant variable that affects this factor is the "car ownership".…”

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The Relation Between Residential Self-Selection and Urban Mobility in Middle Eastern Cities: the Case of Alexandria, Egypt

2021

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The present paper attempts to fill a part of the gap in the studies on residential location choices and their relations to urban mobility, socio-economics, and the built environment by presenting the results of a study on Alexandria, Egypt, by analysing the results of a survey in eight neighbourhoods undertaken in 2015. Four questions were answered in this study: (i) “How are the main drivers behind residential location choices in Alexandria connected to various socio-demographic groups or people with different availability to urban and built environments?”, (ii) “How are the main residential self-selections in Alexandria associated with one another and which are the most important?”, (iii) “How are the housing location-related decisions of Egyptians similar to or different from international decisions?”, and (iv) “How can planners and decision-makers use the knowledge produced by this study for urban planning and housing in Egypt?”. Library work and the results of a Χ2 test of independence show that availability of transportation modes, nice neighbourhoods, and affordability are the strongest motives behind decisions. However, socio-economic factors are generally stronger than urban mobility and spatial issues. These findings are partly different from those of high-income countries.

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“…The second objective is to apply and test this framework using it to determine the urban growth and LST of 6th of October City as a case study of being one of the first new cities to be established in Egypt. Because the more the new city progresses, the more local infrastructure and facilities are planned and implemented [19].…”

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Procedural Framework for Assessing the Impact of New Cities Growth on Urban Heat Island, A Case Study of 6thOctober City

Alsonny

Hamdy

2022

SVU-International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Applicati

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In order to control urban growth, Egypt resorted to establishing new cities on the boundaries of existing ones. Thus, there is concern that the urban heat island phenomenon (UHI) will increase in these desert cities as their urban growth This phenomenon is dependent on land surface temperatures (LST), which are difficult to measure over large areas in situ. As a result, this research is focused on two primary objectives. The first objective is to establish a framework for examining the relationship between urban growth and LST over time using freely available data from remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS). The second objective is to validate and apply this framework in order to ascertain the impact of changes in urban growth on the LST of 6th of October City, which will serve as a case study for new cities. Satellite images for the years 2001, 2007, 2013, and 2019 were obtained using the Landsat data source. Hence, the Land Use/Land Cover Classification (LULC) was obtained with excellent Kappa values of 0.973, 0.962, 0.962, and 0.968, respectively. By examining the relationship between LST and urban growth, the framework was able to produce satisfactory results regarding the impact of urban growth on UHI. It was discovered that as urbanization increases, the city's average LST decreases. This is because it increases the likelihood of shading and the presence of green spaces, rather than desert areas that absorb the most radiation. Thus, urbanization does not endanger UHI in new cities. 1

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Will Distance to the Capital City Matter When Supplying New Cities in Egypt?

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

Mapping and Quantifying the Human-Environment Interactions in Middle Egypt Using Machine Learning and Satellite Data Fusion Techniques

Mapping and Quantifying the Human-Environment Interactions in Middle Egypt Using Machine Learning and Satellite Data Fusion Techniques

The Relation Between Residential Self-Selection and Urban Mobility in Middle Eastern Cities: the Case of Alexandria, Egypt

Procedural Framework for Assessing the Impact of New Cities Growth on Urban Heat Island, A Case Study of 6thOctober City

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