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- Title
Tracing the Spatial Dynamics of Upper Social Classes in Greater Cairo: A Century's Perspective.
- Authors
Ahmed, Wessam; Yousry, Ahmed; Sebawy, Marwa
- Abstract
Greater Cairo Region has grown into segments through successive cohesions. It has experienced a number of phenomena in its journey of development, such as the increasing trajectory of population declines in the old urban mass, the movement of upper classes to the suburbs, as well as the emergence of the pattern of gated communities. The cause of these phenomena resulted from a group of specific factors; (ageing families and ageing buildings, noise pollution, traffic congestion and bottlenecks, etc.). Political and economic factors were dominant in the emergence of these spatial patterns, in addition to the reduction or marginalization of social, urban and legislative factors. The growth and mobility of the upper classes in the region were consistent with the ring theory of upper-class growth and mobility at the beginning of the century until the early 1970s, and with both sectoral and multiple nuclei theory from the mid-1970s, where economic policies shifted to new economic reform programs, underpinned by correlated dynamic processes.
- Subjects
CAIRO (Egypt); SOCIAL classes; ECONOMIC reform; TRAFFIC congestion; URBAN sociology
- Publication
International Journal of Sustainable Development & Planning, 2024, Vol 19, Issue 3, p875
- ISSN
1743-7601
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18280/ijsdp.190307