Driving factors of urban sprawl in Giza Governorate of Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region using AHP method

Land Use Policy

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 21-31

  Osman, Taher ^a,b   Divigalpitiya, Prasanna ^a   Arima, Takafumi ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Cairo University Campus   (Egypt)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Development policy; Informal urbanization; Questionnaire survey; Urban modeling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; METROPOLITAN AREA; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION;

CAIRO [CAIRO (GVR)]; CAIRO [EGYPT]; EGYPT; GIZA [EGYPT];

EID: 84979207988     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.07.013     Document Type: Article

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