Arab Republic of Egypt Urban Sector Note : Volume 2. Towards An Urban Sector Strategy

The objective of this paper is to present a succinct and up-to-date review of the urban sector in Egypt, with a focus on issues for which there is new insight or emerging government interest. The two main themes of the report are the challenges fac...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Policy Note
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCESSIBILITY ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING AIR APARTMENT APARTMENT BLOCKS APARTMENT UNITS ARTERIAL ROAD ARTERIAL STREETS ARTERIES BETTERMENT TAX BUS BUS SYSTEM BUSES CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL INVESTMENT CARS CITIES CITY COUNCILS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION CONURBATION DIESEL DIESEL FUEL HABITAT HIGHWAY HOUSING HOUSING BENEFITS HOUSING ESTATES HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING NEEDS HOUSING UNITS INCOME INFRASTRUCTURE COST INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADING INSTITUTIONAL REFORM LAND DEVELOPMENT LAND MANAGEMENT LAND MARKETS LAND OWNER LAND PRICES LAND REFORM LAND TITLING LAND TRANSACTIONS LAND USE LAND VALUE LANDOWNER LANES LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL OFFICIALS LOCAL TRANSPORT MASS TRANSIT METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EASTERN MINI-BUS MUNICIPAL SERVICES MUNICIPALITIES NEW TOWNS NORTH AFRICA PASSENGERS PASSENGERS PER DAY POLICE POPULATION DENSITIES PRIVATE CAPITAL PRIVATE LANDS PUBLIC PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT OPERATORS RAIL RAIL LINE RAILWAYS REAL ESTATE REPAIR RING ROAD ROAD CONNECTIONS ROADS ROUTE ROUTES RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT SHELTER SHOPPING MALLS SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SPEEDS SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS STREET PARKING STREETS SUBDIVISIONS SUBURBAN RAIL TAX TAXIS TOWN PLANNING TRAFFIC TRAFFIC CONGESTION TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS TRANSPORT TRANSPORT PROBLEMS TRANSPORTATION TRUCKS TRUE URBAN URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS URBAN AREA URBAN AREAS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN DWELLERS URBAN ECONOMY URBAN EXPANSION URBAN FRINGE URBAN GROWTH URBAN HOUSING URBAN HOUSING MARKETS URBAN LAND URBAN LIFE URBAN MANAGEMENT URBAN PLANNING URBAN PLANS URBAN POLICIES URBAN POLICY URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN POVERTY URBAN SECTOR URBAN SERVICE DELIVERY URBAN SERVICES URBAN SETTLEMENTS URBAN SPACE URBAN SPRAWL URBAN UPGRADING URBAN ZONES URBANIZATION UTILITIES VACANT LAND VEHICLE VEHICLES VILLAGES
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spelling	okr-10986-194332021-04-23T14:03:46Z Arab Republic of Egypt Urban Sector Note : Volume 2. Towards An Urban Sector Strategy World Bank ACCESSIBILITY ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING AIR APARTMENT APARTMENT BLOCKS APARTMENT UNITS ARTERIAL ROAD ARTERIAL STREETS ARTERIES BETTERMENT TAX BUS BUS SYSTEM BUSES CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL INVESTMENT CARS CITIES CITY COUNCILS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION CONURBATION DIESEL DIESEL FUEL HABITAT HIGHWAY HOUSING HOUSING BENEFITS HOUSING ESTATES HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING NEEDS HOUSING UNITS INCOME INFRASTRUCTURE COST INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADING INSTITUTIONAL REFORM LAND DEVELOPMENT LAND MANAGEMENT LAND MARKETS LAND OWNER LAND PRICES LAND REFORM LAND TITLING LAND TRANSACTIONS LAND USE LAND VALUE LANDOWNER LANES LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL OFFICIALS LOCAL TRANSPORT MASS TRANSIT METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EASTERN MINI-BUS MUNICIPAL SERVICES MUNICIPALITIES NEW TOWNS NORTH AFRICA PASSENGERS PASSENGERS PER DAY POLICE POPULATION DENSITIES PRIVATE CAPITAL PRIVATE LANDS PUBLIC PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT OPERATORS RAIL RAIL LINE RAILWAYS REAL ESTATE REPAIR RING ROAD ROAD CONNECTIONS ROADS ROUTE ROUTES RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT SHELTER SHOPPING MALLS SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SPEEDS SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS STREET PARKING STREETS SUBDIVISIONS SUBURBAN RAIL TAX TAXIS TOWN PLANNING TRAFFIC TRAFFIC CONGESTION TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS TRANSPORT TRANSPORT PROBLEMS TRANSPORTATION TRUCKS TRUE URBAN URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS URBAN AREA URBAN AREAS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN DWELLERS URBAN ECONOMY URBAN EXPANSION URBAN FRINGE URBAN GROWTH URBAN HOUSING URBAN HOUSING MARKETS URBAN LAND URBAN LIFE URBAN MANAGEMENT URBAN PLANNING URBAN PLANS URBAN POLICIES URBAN POLICY URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN POVERTY URBAN SECTOR URBAN SERVICE DELIVERY URBAN SERVICES URBAN SETTLEMENTS URBAN SPACE URBAN SPRAWL URBAN UPGRADING URBAN ZONES URBANIZATION UTILITIES VACANT LAND VEHICLE VEHICLES VILLAGES The objective of this paper is to present a succinct and up-to-date review of the urban sector in Egypt, with a focus on issues for which there is new insight or emerging government interest. The two main themes of the report are the challenges facing the urban sector and the policy implications at various levels of government. Some of the reports mains findings are: urbanization in Egypt takes on forms and processes which are not well understood and as a consequence urban policies are sometimes weak or counter productive; until now policies and actions in the urban sector have mainly consisted of State driven, supply-side interventions; due to the focus on development in the desert, the dynamics of urbanism in the Nile Valley and Delta, which together contain over 95 percent of the country's population, have largely been ignored; and finally it is rare that government of Egypt's urban development projects include a strategy of capturing the appreciation value of their investments ("unearned increment"), cross-subsidization or cost recovery. The note concludes with a set of recommendations of ways to improve the government's response to the urban challenge. 2014-08-19T17:21:37Z 2014-08-19T17:21:37Z 2008-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/06/9633452/egypt-urban-sector-update-vol-2-2-towards-urban-sector-strategy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19433 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Note Economic & Sector Work Middle East and North Africa Egypt, Arab Republic of
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topic	ACCESSIBILITY ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING AIR APARTMENT APARTMENT BLOCKS APARTMENT UNITS ARTERIAL ROAD ARTERIAL STREETS ARTERIES BETTERMENT TAX BUS BUS SYSTEM BUSES CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL INVESTMENT CARS CITIES CITY COUNCILS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION CONURBATION DIESEL DIESEL FUEL HABITAT HIGHWAY HOUSING HOUSING BENEFITS HOUSING ESTATES HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING NEEDS HOUSING UNITS INCOME INFRASTRUCTURE COST INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADING INSTITUTIONAL REFORM LAND DEVELOPMENT LAND MANAGEMENT LAND MARKETS LAND OWNER LAND PRICES LAND REFORM LAND TITLING LAND TRANSACTIONS LAND USE LAND VALUE LANDOWNER LANES LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL OFFICIALS LOCAL TRANSPORT MASS TRANSIT METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EASTERN MINI-BUS MUNICIPAL SERVICES MUNICIPALITIES NEW TOWNS NORTH AFRICA PASSENGERS PASSENGERS PER DAY POLICE POPULATION DENSITIES PRIVATE CAPITAL PRIVATE LANDS PUBLIC PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT OPERATORS RAIL RAIL LINE RAILWAYS REAL ESTATE REPAIR RING ROAD ROAD CONNECTIONS ROADS ROUTE ROUTES RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT SHELTER SHOPPING MALLS SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SPEEDS SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS STREET PARKING STREETS SUBDIVISIONS SUBURBAN RAIL TAX TAXIS TOWN PLANNING TRAFFIC TRAFFIC CONGESTION TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS TRANSPORT TRANSPORT PROBLEMS TRANSPORTATION TRUCKS TRUE URBAN URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS URBAN AREA URBAN AREAS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN DWELLERS URBAN ECONOMY URBAN EXPANSION URBAN FRINGE URBAN GROWTH URBAN HOUSING URBAN HOUSING MARKETS URBAN LAND URBAN LIFE URBAN MANAGEMENT URBAN PLANNING URBAN PLANS URBAN POLICIES URBAN POLICY URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN POVERTY URBAN SECTOR URBAN SERVICE DELIVERY URBAN SERVICES URBAN SETTLEMENTS URBAN SPACE URBAN SPRAWL URBAN UPGRADING URBAN ZONES URBANIZATION UTILITIES VACANT LAND VEHICLE VEHICLES VILLAGES
spellingShingle	ACCESSIBILITY ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING AIR APARTMENT APARTMENT BLOCKS APARTMENT UNITS ARTERIAL ROAD ARTERIAL STREETS ARTERIES BETTERMENT TAX BUS BUS SYSTEM BUSES CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL INVESTMENT CARS CITIES CITY COUNCILS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION CONURBATION DIESEL DIESEL FUEL HABITAT HIGHWAY HOUSING HOUSING BENEFITS HOUSING ESTATES HOUSING MARKETS HOUSING NEEDS HOUSING UNITS INCOME INFRASTRUCTURE COST INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADING INSTITUTIONAL REFORM LAND DEVELOPMENT LAND MANAGEMENT LAND MARKETS LAND OWNER LAND PRICES LAND REFORM LAND TITLING LAND TRANSACTIONS LAND USE LAND VALUE LANDOWNER LANES LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL OFFICIALS LOCAL TRANSPORT MASS TRANSIT METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EASTERN MINI-BUS MUNICIPAL SERVICES MUNICIPALITIES NEW TOWNS NORTH AFRICA PASSENGERS PASSENGERS PER DAY POLICE POPULATION DENSITIES PRIVATE CAPITAL PRIVATE LANDS PUBLIC PUBLIC FUNDS PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT OPERATORS RAIL RAIL LINE RAILWAYS REAL ESTATE REPAIR RING ROAD ROAD CONNECTIONS ROADS ROUTE ROUTES RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT SHELTER SHOPPING MALLS SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SPEEDS SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS STREET PARKING STREETS SUBDIVISIONS SUBURBAN RAIL TAX TAXIS TOWN PLANNING TRAFFIC TRAFFIC CONGESTION TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS TRANSPORT TRANSPORT PROBLEMS TRANSPORTATION TRUCKS TRUE URBAN URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS URBAN AREA URBAN AREAS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN DWELLERS URBAN ECONOMY URBAN EXPANSION URBAN FRINGE URBAN GROWTH URBAN HOUSING URBAN HOUSING MARKETS URBAN LAND URBAN LIFE URBAN MANAGEMENT URBAN PLANNING URBAN PLANS URBAN POLICIES URBAN POLICY URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN POVERTY URBAN SECTOR URBAN SERVICE DELIVERY URBAN SERVICES URBAN SETTLEMENTS URBAN SPACE URBAN SPRAWL URBAN UPGRADING URBAN ZONES URBANIZATION UTILITIES VACANT LAND VEHICLE VEHICLES VILLAGES World Bank Arab Republic of Egypt Urban Sector Note : Volume 2. Towards An Urban Sector Strategy
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description	The objective of this paper is to present a succinct and up-to-date review of the urban sector in Egypt, with a focus on issues for which there is new insight or emerging government interest. The two main themes of the report are the challenges facing the urban sector and the policy implications at various levels of government. Some of the reports mains findings are: urbanization in Egypt takes on forms and processes which are not well understood and as a consequence urban policies are sometimes weak or counter productive; until now policies and actions in the urban sector have mainly consisted of State driven, supply-side interventions; due to the focus on development in the desert, the dynamics of urbanism in the Nile Valley and Delta, which together contain over 95 percent of the country's population, have largely been ignored; and finally it is rare that government of Egypt's urban development projects include a strategy of capturing the appreciation value of their investments ("unearned increment"), cross-subsidization or cost recovery. The note concludes with a set of recommendations of ways to improve the government's response to the urban challenge.
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title	Arab Republic of Egypt Urban Sector Note : Volume 2. Towards An Urban Sector Strategy
title_short	Arab Republic of Egypt Urban Sector Note : Volume 2. Towards An Urban Sector Strategy
title_full	Arab Republic of Egypt Urban Sector Note : Volume 2. Towards An Urban Sector Strategy
title_fullStr	Arab Republic of Egypt Urban Sector Note : Volume 2. Towards An Urban Sector Strategy
title_full_unstemmed	Arab Republic of Egypt Urban Sector Note : Volume 2. Towards An Urban Sector Strategy
title_sort	arab republic of egypt urban sector note : volume 2. towards an urban sector strategy
publisher	Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/06/9633452/egypt-urban-sector-update-vol-2-2-towards-urban-sector-strategy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19433
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Arab Republic of Egypt Urban Sector Note : Volume 2. Towards An Urban Sector Strategy

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