Essays about: "New Cairo City"

Found 3 essays containing the words New Cairo City.

1. 1. Open The Gates: New Cairo City, Egypt

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Asmaa Abdellahy; [2018]
   Keywords : Sustainable Urban Design; New Cairo City; Gated communities; Public spaces; Public areas; Mobility; Transition areas; Micro climate adaptation; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : This thesis project explores the relationship between social and spatial factors on many different levels: relation between two kinds of people living standards; buildings and the land; indoors and outdoors spaces; public and private. So coexistence, communication, and interaction are my keywords to translate all my ideas in a project. READ MORE

3. 2. City Margins and Exclusionary Space in Contemporary Egypt : An Urban Ethnography of a Syrian Refugee Community in a Remote Low-Income Cairo Neighborhood

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier

   Author : Samir Shalabi; [2017]
   Keywords : Egypt; Syria; Cairo; 6th of Uktūbar City; inequality; refugees; refuge; space; spatial; urban; city; neighborhood; justice; marginality; exclusion; locality; uneven development; ethnography;

   Abstract : Drawing mainly on Lefebvre’s, Soja’s and Smith’s theorizations of space in order to understand the spatial dynamics of social inequality, this study investigates how a low-income Syrian refugee community negotiates its precarious location in a neighborhood on the periphery of one of Cairo’s desert ‘New Towns’. It also examines the way in which urban spatiality shapes the everyday lived reality of this particular community of Syrians. READ MORE

4. 3. Participatory Urban Upgrading : The Case of Ezbet Bekhit, Cairo, Egypt

   University essay from KTH/Infrastruktur

   Author : Zeinab Noureddine Tag-Eldeen; [2003]
   Keywords : Informal settlement; Low-income Housing; Urban Upgrading; Community Participation; Project Evaluation; Participatory Program Evaluation; Action Planning; German-Egyptian Cooperation; Egypt; Cairo;

   Abstract : As a mega-city and the most populated city in Africa, Cairo is characterised by a high birth rate, escalating rural-urban migration and where the socio-economic services are centralized and overwhelmed, these generally poor migrants have no choice other than to create and develop their own informal shelter in the outer city areas that lay farthest from the reach of the authorities and from where they then search for better job opportunities. The expansion of these slum areas places an extra burden on the already deteriorated natural and unplanned urban environments. READ MORE