An approach to improve land use and urban mobility patterns in Egyptian communities (Case study of El-Sheikh Zayed city)

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1 Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Fine Arts, Architecture Department, Helwan University

2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Architecture Department, Helwan University

Abstract

Urban Mobility and Land Use are main challenges facing urban communities 
nowadays, together with the urge to always improve the quality of life of the 
communities’ residents in line with the increasing pace of urban expansion all over the 
world. In the recent decades, the dispersed pattern of land use, deterioration of public 
transportation, and excessive car dependency have been evident in most of the 
developing countries, thus in Egypt. This in turn affects the different environmental,social, and economic pillars of the quality of life in these communities and demands 
alternatives to be able to balance that trend.
This study focuses on the integration between land use and urban mobility in one of 
Egypt’s urban communities, El-Sheikh Zayed city. The city has been chosen as a local 
case study to discuss the applicability of applying the Transport-oriented development 
(TOD) principles and standards in the Egyptian context as an approach to improve the 
status of land use and urban mobility patterns, hence the quality of life of urban 
communities. Challenges and potentials were identified, and recommendations for ElSheikh Zayed city and similar urban communities in Egypt and beyond were suggested.

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