2015年9月4日 · Slum areas started to crop up in Cairo in the 1950s, for a variety of reasons, including the internal migration of Egyptians seeking better living conditions, the expansion of the capitalist...

Informal urban growth in Egypt is very compact, inner city areas are often dense, built mainly for housing and informal commercial uses, with inadequate allocation of space for social services, open spaces and streets. This hinders mobility, creates congestion, and limits the access to education and health services.

a slum, the Informal Settlement Development Facility (ISDF), since its establishment by a presidential Decree # 305/2008, has made a substantial change in the Egyptian vocabulary by replacing the term “Slums” or “Informal Settlements” or “Ashwa’iyyat” by two distinctive terms; “Unsafe Areas” and “Unplanned areas”. Unsafe

The document addresses slums throughout its three parts: Egypt’s situation analysis regarding slums; the principles governing dealing with slums in terms of global and local objectives; and the strategic approaches for dealing with slums including slum

2024年6月10日 · This paper addresses the issue of slums in Egypt, the extent of their impact on the national economy, and the role of the state in confronting it, through several axes. First: the concept of slums. There are multiple definitions of “slums” around the world, but everyone agrees that slum areas are illegal and unplanned areas.

between slums and land conflict adds greater challenges while dealing with slum development. Yet, the Egyptian Government has adopted many approaches to deal with slums in improving the living conditions of slum dwellers including an adequate built environment and safer legal situation. These approaches, first,

2012年8月16日 · According to a reported statement by high ranking official with the Local Development Authority, random housing and slums constitute around 40 per cent of urban areas around Egypt, a figure echoed by President Mohamed Morsi in a recent address.

2020年12月6日 · Characterized by overcrowding, inadequate sanitation and access to clean water, and a lack of housing tenure security, slums are seen as undesirable places within the cities that house them, but exist out of the necessity and desperation of the poorest of the poor in their search for a place to live.

2017年6月1日 · The findings show that the Egyptian government’s relocation approach concentrated more on trying to eradicate existing slums rather than addressing the socio-economic drives that led to the growth of informal areas including urban poverty. This approach resulted in making the poor even poorer and slum dwellers even more marginalized.

Ezbet El Haggana, a sprawling slum in the north east of Cairo, is one of the largest urban ashwaiiyat, or ‘informal communities’, encircling the city. With more than one million inhabitants, it is among the few places where the poorest of Egypt's poor can afford some sort of housing.