TY  - JOUR
TI  - Will Distance to the Capital City Matter When Supplying New Cities in Egypt?
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2016-0004
EP  - 52
SN  - 1802-1115
IS  - 2
KW  - Egyptian new cities
KW  -  spatial analysis
KW  -  distance to the capital city
KW  -  population
change
A1  - Ibrahim, MR
A1  - Masoumi, HE
SP  - 35
AV  - public
JF  - GeoScape
N1  - This article is published in Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
N2  - Unlike other developing countries, the housing market in Egypt is characterized by
densely populated urban areas in old cities and the peripheral urban agglomeration. In
contrast, a high rate of vacancy along most of the new cities that have been established since
the 1980s is seen. Regardless of such high rate of vacancies, still the variation in occupancy
rates among those new cities is notable. Questions arising include: Does proximity to old cities
or Greater Cairo affect the size of the population of the new cities? Is the size of the city or the
year of establishment plays roles in attracting more inhabitants? The factors of spatial
characteristics of new cities in Egypt remain questionable. This research aims to reveal the
association between occupancy rate and six factors related to the spatial characteristics of new
cities and their geographical locations, such as; current inhabitants, the estimated size of the
target group, the size of new cities, total number of housing units, distance to nearby old city,
and distance to Greater Cairo.
Y1  - 2016/12//
VL  - 10
ID  - discovery10072203
ER  -