How traders seek for optimal location in informal as well as planned settlement in Cairo. The role of the structure of the street network and opportunities for dwellers in informal areas
| dc.contributor.author | Mohamed, Abdelbaseer A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | van Nes, Akkelies | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-05T13:12:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-05T13:12:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Cairo, one of the most densely populated cities in both Africa and Middle East, is a polycentric urban region with several socio-‐ economic and urban planning challenges. Rapid growth of this metropolitan region contributed to the emergence of informal settlements. It took place on the outskirts of the city on a privately-‐ owned ex- ‐ agricultural land and on a state-‐ owned desert land. The inhabitants of unplanned urban areas seek for the spatial opportunities of the neighbourhoods to generate any kind of income for surviving. There is a social logic in both the geographical location of unplanned settlements and the structure of the spaces between buildings inside these settlements. The spatial layout of built environments influences the distribution of commercial activities, independent on the social composition of dwellers. As research has shown, commercial activities can enhance the process of urban consolidation of informal areas. The purpose of this contribution is to reveal the correlation between spatial factors and the distribution of internal and edge commercial land use by applying some new methodological means, such as a combined space syntax analysis of the street network with degree of inter- visibility between buildings and streets, statistical analysis and band analyses. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 524-526 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2566 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | How traders seek for optimal location in informal as well as planned settlement in Cairo. The role of the structure of the street network and opportunities for dwellers in informal areas | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion |