The role of strategic planning in spatial competing between planned and unplanned urban areas of greater Cairo

الملخص EN

The urban uses compete to dominate different areas of the city, the services and commercial uses usually dominate the city centers due to its accessibility, and industrial uses are also looking for areas with lower value and environmentally suitable, while residential uses distributed near to the services centers and jobs generator areas.

urban areas and uses also compete according to their planning status to become planned or unplanned, the planned residential uses are distributed regularly around services or greens, and usually away from pollution-generating areas such as industry, while the unplanned uses are distributed either around these planned areas or around areas of employment generation, especially trade, services, and industrial activities.

this explains the spread of slums and unplanned areas on the outskirts of the city or around industrial areas.

the applied urban planning approaches have an effective role on arranging areas and ensuring that they do not turn into slums or informal areas.

Egypt applies the comprehensive planning approach from 1950th until 2008 where the strategic planning approach was applied for guiding urban development plan.

the research will focus on studying the role of applied planning approaches in Egypt to control areas planning status specially the strategic planning which has not shown a clear positive impact on urban areas even with the participation of civil society and its groups and could not control occupation of land areas by the domestic land use.

research aim: to examine the role of applied planning approaches in controlling the state of urban areas in Egypt, and to reinforce the strategic planning tools that contributes to solve the conflict between planned and unplanned areas inside the city, and to create a map that illustrate the interaction between planned and unplanned urban areas inside the city.

methodology: the descriptive approach will be followed by describing the phenomenon, the variables related to it, and the factors that affect it, and then extracting and generalizing the results, and then use the experimental approach by studding and analyze the urban area of greater Cairo region, Egypt as case study to apply the approach to formulate theories and axioms according to an ordered system.

for the aim of the research an urban map will be drawn that will divide the areas within the study area into three types according to their urban aspects (planned area-unplanned areas, areas under development are undeveloped areas).