Essays about: "German-Egyptian Cooperation"

Found 1 essay containing the words German-Egyptian Cooperation.

  1. 1. 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