Quantifying the Relationship between the Built Environment Attributes and Urban Sustainability Potentials for Housing Areas

Quantifying the Relationship between the Built Environment Attributes and Urban Sustainability Potentials for Housing Areas

The Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region (GCMR) in its seeking to sustainable development (SD) by the year of 2050 facing the serious challenge of around 65 percent of Cairenes live in unplanned settlements. In this respect, the authors examined the effect of urban characteristics of unplanned settleme...

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Main Authors: Taher Osman, Prasanna Divigalpitiya, Mustafa M. Osman, Emad Kenawy, Muhammad Salem, Omar Hamdy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-09-01
Series:Buildings
Subjects:
unplanned settlements
sustainable development
urban characteristics
GIS analysis
Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region
evaluation matrix
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/6/3/39

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