Urban planning and growth in Cairo

Middle East Report

Volumn , Issue 202, 1997, Pages 7-12

  Denis, Eric ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Service de la valise diplomatique   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITY GROWTH; HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING;

EGYPT, CAIRO;

EID: 0031437156     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. These figures are based on the census of Egypt in 1960 and 1986, and estimations for 1994.
2. They represented only seven percent of public expenditures in 1993/94 as opposed to nearly 33 percent in 1981/82.
3. In the northern periphery of Qalyubia, nearly 70 percent of families survive below this threshold, and 47 percent on the western bank of the Nile in Giza.
4. Egypt Human Development Report 1995, The Institute of National Planning (Cairo, 1996); Karima Korayem, Poverty and Income Distribution in Egypt, (Cairo: Third World Forum, Middle East Office, 1994).
5. Egypt Human Development Report 1995, The Institute of National Planning (Cairo, 1996); Karima Korayem, Poverty and Income Distribution in Egypt, (Cairo: Third World Forum, Middle East Office, 1994).
6. The average return on investment per year in 1993 was more than 37.7 percent, and more than 157.9 percent in 1994, as opposed to more than 24 percent and less than 8.4 percent in France, in Great Britain more than 17.2 percent and less than 6.4 percent, in Mexico more than 46.1 percent and less than 22.9 percent and in Brazil more than 155.9 percent and 77.7 percent. In Egypt, these performances still benefit from a weak rate of inflation for an emerging market (countries whose GDP per capita is between $500 and $15,000 per year). Business Monthly 11/ 2, (Cairo: American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, 1995).
7. Milad Hanna, al-Iskan wa al-Masyada, (Cairo: Dar al-Mustaqbal al-Arabi, 1987; French translation, CEDEJ, Cairo, 1992). The author emphasizes the paradox of housing without inhabitants and inhabitants without housing.
8. Metropolitan Planning and Management in the Developing World: Spatial Decentralization Policy in Bombay and Cairo, (Nairobi: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, 1993); James B. Mayfield, Local Government in Egypt, (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1996).
9. Metropolitan Planning and Management in the Developing World: Spatial Decentralization Policy in Bombay and Cairo, (Nairobi: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, 1993); James B. Mayfield, Local Government in Egypt, (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1996).
10. Diane Singerman Avenues of Participation, Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
11. Robert Lopez, "Hautes murailles pour villes de riches," Le Monde Diplomatique 503, March 1996.
12. John Waterbury, Take the Bus and Leave the Driving to Us, Northeast Africa Series 21/2 (1976).
13. Alain Roussilon, Comme si la ville était divisée en deux: un regard réformiste sur l'urbain en Égypte au tournant des années 1940, (Genese, No. 22, Paris, 1996).
14. Milad Hanna, al-Iskan wa al-Siyasa (The Housing and the Politic), (Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1996). Not all the hazardous zones have the same social and architectural characteristics. There is, in reality, housing that is normal and healthy in spite of the fact that it is neither planned nor legal. Some of it is in completely good condition and it should be recognized that without it, several thousand families could not have integrated, married and found employment (p. 183).
15. Al-Taqrir al-Istratiji al-Arabi 1995 (Arab Strategic Report 1995), Cairo: Al Ahram, 1996), the report devotes more than 20 pages to the political question of the informal neighborhoods.
16. Immanuel Wallerstein, "Heritage of Myrdal: The Dilemma of Racism and Under-Development," in Unthinking Social Science, the Limits of Nineteenth Century Paradigms, (Polity Press, 1991).
17. Iman Farag, "L'enseignement en Égypte, économie politique d'une libéralisation annoncée in Âge liberal et néo libéralisme (Cairo: CEDEJ, 1996).