This paper discuss the problem of urban growth of metropolitan cities, which often occur steadily at the expense of land, especially if the attention of planners urban development comes in the framework of achieving people's needs and maintain the city's resources in a balanced, and that witnesses the world to economic changes and transformations with multiple end of the twentieth century and the beginnings of the new century (globalization, new world economic order, a revolution of information and communication). These global changes will have significant impact on the attitudes of urban development in Egypt, especially in determining the direction and rate of urban development. The reasons for choosing the city of Mansoura to a case study because of its specifications are similar to the regional cities which are urban growth at the expense of the surrounding agricultural land, the growth is not simple, particularly as it is on the agricultural land classified as firstclass in terms of quality and richness of soil productivity and crop structure. Hence the importance of studying and monitoring the growth of the city to prevent the negative effects of unregulated growth and shows that significantly through the study of urban growth of the city from 1903 until now. Therefore, research aims to:
assess the usefulness of governmental actions to the problems of urban growth and the success of the planned destruction of the city of Mansoura in 2012 to solve the problem of urbanization and the development of residential areas degraded.
to provide the best solutions to overcome the problems of urban growth (urban and environmental), by providing a new vision of the concept applied to the nature of the planned destruction of the city of Mansoura to impose conditions and improve the quality of housing, through an overview of the future based on communication and sustainability, and optimal utilization of available resources in the city.
analysis and evaluation of policies and strategies proposed to solve the problems of urban growth in the development plans to provide a new vision of the scheme of the city of Mansoura year. He specialized in research examining the negative consequences for the growth of the city of Mansoura to unplanned land use and therefore the residential areas, then make several assumptions have been aimed at achieving the objective of the research are as follows:
the level in the Nile Delta: The Politics of Urban Development Region must be consistent with the absorptive capacity of cities in the region taking into account the mutual influences between these cities to each other.
the level of Daqahliya: policies and strategies to solve the problems of land should be through a policy of comprehensive, integrated and not part of these strategies should be based on the thought of sustainable development.
the level of the city of Mansoura: The planned destruction of the city of Mansoura in 2012 is not appropriate to resolve the problems urban city, the new thought for another comprehensive plan must be submitted.
Method of research is descriptive method of the suit and comparative study between the target and has been implemented - the analytical method to analyze urban growth of the city - the measurements and analysis of the results of these measurements, especially for the extent of contamination incident in the city.