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| GATED COMMUNITIES ON THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT |
In the late seventies the Egyptian government
established new urban communities to provide housing, services and job
opportunities in healthier environments. It focused towards achieving comprehensive
sustainable development throughout population redistribution and empowering the
utilization of physical, human and economic resources of the country. Sustainability
is about “how the whole thing holds together” and clearly environment, economy,
and collective cohabitation are different aspects of the same urban challenge.
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| GATED COMMUNITIES ON THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT |
A new pattern of development has been observed
in the new cities in Egypt in last decades. Egyptian new cities are changing
dramatically. They are faced with huge socio-economic and special challenges,
which in turn, necessitates large scale social transformation. Within this
context, gated communities are growing rapidly, contributing to urban
transformation in a very significant way. The phenomena of gated communities
which increased as a result of globalization, have become an important trend
for both the real-estate industry and the prospective homebuyer. Such gated
communities create exclusive zones for the wealthy to satisfy their desire of enjoying a better quality of life. The Egyptian
GCs offer social prestige since the social segregation promoted by the limits
of the enclaves isolated the wealthy classes from the problems of the public
sphere.
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| GATED COMMUNITIES ON THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT |
The massive growth of GCs developments has been
one of the major urban changes in the new cities around Cairo. The paper
addresses the issue of gated communities in the new cities around Cairo as a
specific form of the crisis of the privatization of public space and urban
order in a stratified society. The research is focusing on the new urban
development of El –sheik- Zayed city, as a case study, since GCs are spreading
very fast all over the city. Analyzing the pattern of development and its
effect on the city planning the spatial discontinuity between the GCs and their
vicinities.
Magda
Metwally
Professor of
Housing& Urban Development, Department of Housing &Architecture,
Building &
Housing National
Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
E-mail:magda_met@hotmail.com
Sahar
Soliman Abdalla
Associate Professor ,
Department of Housing &Architecture, Building &Housing National
Research
Center, Cairo, Egypt
E-mail:saharsoliman99@hotmail.com
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