Analytical comparison between informal random housing and graveyards housing : a case study housing inside the Northern Gabana Area, in Cairo City

Abstract EN

The informal residential areas have emerged in cities as a result of successive migrations from the countryside to cities, which have witnessed a large urbanization that was not matched by rural development.

Employment opportunities and services in these cities became attracting factors, while rural areas were unable to provide job opportunities due to the population growth and lack of basic services which is called expulsion factors, this has led to the flow of migratory flows from rural areas to main urban centers.

Because of the inability of these centers to supply housing for such newcomers, they have settled this problem themselves, which has emerged in the form of informal-random -extensions around residential communities, urbanization and expansion in urban areas.

These areas have become an essential part of the urban structure of cities.

Migration may be external to one country due to the economic life of that country, in the form of labor needed by that country in its urban development.

So, the study deals with studying one of the areas that represents the model of a pattern of informal-random- housing, which is an extension of villages and their cohesion with the city, where these villages have become part of the urban fabric of the city as well as one of the forms of its informa l –random- growth