Water and Development in Greater Cairo (Egypt) by Fatma Abdel Rahman Attia

Get full text

Emissions Control Scenarios for Transport in Greater Cairo by Rana Alaa Abbass, Prashant Kumar, Ahmed El-Gendy

Subjects: “…greater Cairo…”
Get full text

Mobility inequality of disadvantaged groups in Greater Cairo region by Nouran Azouz, Marwa A. Khalifa, Mohamed El-Fayoumi

“…<p class="Abstract">Mobility inequality in the Greater Cairo Region (GCR) affects disadvantaged groups of women, children and adolescents, elderly people, and persons with disabilities. …”
Get full text

Crime in relation to urban design. Case study: The Greater Cairo Region by Heba Adel, Mohamed Salheen, Randa A. Mahmoud

“…The role of this paper is to identify urban circumstances related to crime occurrence within the Greater Cairo Region, and to propose different ways to reduce these crimes. …”
Get full text

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Greater Cairo water supply systems by Mahmoud M. Fouad, Ahmed S. El-Gendy, Mostafa M. H. Khalil, Taha M. A. Razek

“…There are numerous activities in the Greater Cairo area that emit and release significant amounts of PAHs. …”
Get full text

Development and validation of a lead emission inventory for the Greater Cairo area by Zeinab Safar, Mounir W. Labib, Alan W. Gertler

Subjects: Get full text

Tailored methods for mapping urban heat islands in Greater Cairo Region by Esraa Elmarakby, Marwa Khalifa, Abeer Elshater, Samy Afifi

“…The tools in the current research adopted remote sensing and field measurements including those using air temperature monitors and thermal imaging technologies to examine the multiple urban structures of four cases in the Greater Cairo Region. The results showed that UHI detection by remote sensing analysis was affected by normalised difference vegetation index. …”
Get full text

Predicting the Likelihood of Using Car-Sharing in the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Area by Abdelrahman Samaha, Hamid Mostofi

“…This research investigates the influencing variables that affect the likelihood of choosing car-sharing if it launches in the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Area, Egypt. It adopts a binary logistic regression model to analyze the findings of an online stated preference survey. …”
Get full text

CHANGES IN THE URBAN SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF THE GREATER CAIRO METROPOLITAN AREA, EGYPT by A. A. M. Hassan

“…Since the 1980s, rapid population growth and urbanization have become issues in big cities like Greater Cairo (GC). As a consequence of explosive growth, the living conditions of Cairo Metropolis deteriorate. …”
Get full text

Investigating walkability and bikeability in compact vs. new extensions: the case of Greater Cairo by Sally Eldeeb, Houshmand Masoumi, Houshmand Masoumi

“…The results indicate that the walkability rates in Old Cairo downtown surpass those of the newer extensions of the Greater Cairo Region due to the compact urban fabric and highly integrated street network and activities. …”
Get full text

Evaluation of the air quality in arid climate megacities (Case study: Greater Cairo) by Mohammed Mahmoud A. HWEHY, Fawzia Ibrahim MOURSY, Attia Mahmoud EL-TANTAWI, Mostafa Abd El-Hameed MOHAMED

“…This work aims to provide an insight into air quality in the Greater Cairo (GC) area which is one of the largest megacities in the MENA region and is classified as its most polluted city according to the reports of the World Health Organization (WHO). …”
Get full text

Quantifying the Driving Forces of Informal Urbanization in the Western Part of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region by Taher Osman, Prasanna Divigalpitiya, Takafumi Arima

“…This paper discusses the driving forces (DFs) of informal urbanization (IU) in the greater Cairo metropolitan region (GCMR) using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). …”
Get full text

Submicron aerosol pollution in Greater Cairo (Egypt): A new type of urban haze? by Aliki Christodoulou, Spyros Bezantakos, Efstratios Bourtsoukidis, Iasonas Stavroulas, Michael Pikridas, Konstantina Oikonomou, Minas Iakovides, Salwa K. Hassan, Mohamed Boraiy, Mostafa El-Nazer, Ali Wheida, Magdy Abdelwahab, Roland Sarda-Estève, Martin Rigler, Giorgos Biskos, Charbel Afif, Agnes Borbon, Mihalis Vrekoussis, Nikos Mihalopoulos, Stéphane Sauvage, Jean Sciare

Subjects: Get full text

Assessment of particulate matter and lead levels in the Greater Cairo area for the period 1998–2007 by Zeinab S. Safar, Mounir W. Labib

“…A health risk assessment study conducted in 1994 for the Greater Cairo (GC) area evaluated the environmental health risks to Cairo residents and determined the major health hazards of ambient lead and particulate matter. …”
Get full text

Noise levels inside the coaches of Greater Cairo tunnel metro, line 3 tunnel by Soha Eldakdoky, Ahmed Elkhateeb

Get full text

A Validated Framework for Characterising Informal Settlements: Two Cases from Greater Cairo, Egypt by Asser Bakhaty, Ashraf M. Salama, Branka Dimitrijević

Subjects: Get full text

Perceptions of Egyptian physicians about drug shortage during political disturbances: Survey in Greater Cairo by Ammar A. Abdelrahman, Amr A. Saad, Nirmeen A. Sabry, Samar F. Farid

Get full text

Giza Channel of the Nile in Maedieval Period. A Contribution to Historical Geography of Greater Cairo Region by Kubiak Władysław

Get full text

Ground motion prediction from nearest seismogenic zones in and around Greater Cairo Area, Egypt by Abd El-Aziz Khairy Abd El-Aal

“…The ground motions are predicted from seismogenic zones to assess seismic hazard in the northeastern part of Greater Cairo, where three effective seismogenic zones, namely Abou Zabul, southeast Cairo trend and Dahshour area, have the largest effect to the Greater Cairo Area. …”
Get full text

Mixed Mode buildings as approach to reduce energy consumption in office buildings in greater Cairo in Egypt by Nancy Badawy, Ahmed Abdin, Abbas El-zafarany

“…Mixed Mode building is a combine of natural ventilated building and AC building which needs different strategy of design which make the Mixed Mode building face a problem in design. this paper aims to reach a strategy to design mixed mode buildings envelope in greater Cairo to reach optimum energy consumption. the research concludes that the MMB is near to be a natural ventilated building with slight heavier south envelope which reach 0.8w/m2.k and 20% WWR although the north façade still a light skin with 2w/m2k and 50% WWR.…”
Get full text