by ABDELHAMID Hatem Touman
The Congress theme: “The Dream of a Greater Europe” combined with themes of some tracks such as: “Housing and community development”, have both encouraged us to present this paper. The social blend which we are gaining by the birth of The Greater Europe ; the big variety of social classes living together on the new European community ; and the mobility freedom all over the Continent, may launch again the desire to be enclosed in settlements with homogeneous social fabric, with people of the same nationality, culture and standard of living. This may re-launch the movement of gated communities in Europe. This is why we are trying here to explore possible forms and effects of gated communities on the societies. In order to avoid its bad effects on our growing European Community.
The main task of this paper is to explore the effects of gated communities as an urban paradigm on the:
- social life. Its danger on the social fabric.
- national planning : infrastructure ; transport network ; etc.
- National economy and the econo-spatial distribution. (We mean the distribution of the national budget and the capitals of the private investment on the territory).
We are interested, as well, in Gated Communities through our research about the new urban forms, in order to construct an ideal model of new urban settlements. We started discussing that during my paper’s presentation of AESOP2004, concerning New Towns as a European ideology affecting the urban policy on foreign territories. Our case study was Egypt. So this year we’ll continue the second part of the research on the same case study. Our paper of AESOP2004 and this paper were the topic of our research for the Master degree and which we are developing now as a part of our PhD research.
The main task of this paper is to explore the effects of gated communities as an urban paradigm on the:
- social life. Its danger on the social fabric.
- national planning : infrastructure ; transport network ; etc.
- National economy and the econo-spatial distribution. (We mean the distribution of the national budget and the capitals of the private investment on the territory).
We are interested, as well, in Gated Communities through our research about the new urban forms, in order to construct an ideal model of new urban settlements. We started discussing that during my paper’s presentation of AESOP2004, concerning New Towns as a European ideology affecting the urban policy on foreign territories. Our case study was Egypt. So this year we’ll continue the second part of the research on the same case study. Our paper of AESOP2004 and this paper were the topic of our research for the Master degree and which we are developing now as a part of our PhD research.
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