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Upgrading Urban Spaces in Slums as a Tool to achieve Social Sustainability (Making Slums Livable) - The Case Study of Meit-Elwan Slum - Kafr El Sheikh City - Egypt.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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One-third of the population of the developing countries lives today in slums, Urbanization of the planet stands at about 50% of the population, so rapid urbanization, mainly by the poor, and the increasing of slums to accommodate the population growth, so cities will be designed by the poor, there is a great need to achieve social sustainable development in slums to save resources and to improve the slum's dwellers quality of life.
The research aims to reach a mechanism that combines the elements of sustainable urban development in urban communities based on achieving the humanitarian needs of the population, providing a model for achieving social sustainability in the urban environment of slums
The research follows the theoretical approach in studying concepts related to social sustainability and its dimensions, then following the analytical approach as it discusses the social sustainability development design principles and analysis case studies for sustainable upgrading of slums in India and Columbia to provide indicators of achieving social sustainability development for slums, then the paper provides an applied study to achieve these indicators in the slum of Meit Elwan in Kafr Alsheikh city in Egypt to turn it into a more livable slum, The research vision of the slum upgrading process follows street-led city wide slum upgrading approach  which was developed by UN-Habitat (2012-2017).

DOI

10.21608/bfemu.2021.175695

Keywords

Social sustainability- Quality of life, Informal urban areas, Open urban spaces

Authors

First Name

Rania

Last Name

Ghanam

MiddleName

Abd Allateef

Affiliation

Assistant Professor., Architectural Engineering Department., Faculty of Engineering., Kafr Alsheikh University

Email

raniaghanam77@gmail.com

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Mahalla Alkobra

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

El-Deep

MiddleName

Salah

Affiliation

Architecture department, faculty of engineering, kafr elsheikh university, Egypt

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ahmed_aboelnaser@eng.kfs.edu.eg

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Volume

46

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2

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23998

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-01-08

Publish Date

2021-06-06

Page Start

67

Page End

75

Print ISSN

1110-0923

Online ISSN

2735-4202

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BFEMU_Volume 46_Issue 2_Pages 67-75.pdf

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MEJ. Mansoura Engineering Journal

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22 Jan 2023