INDICATORS OF THE CURRENT STATUS OF POPULATION REQUIREMENTS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN ASSIUT CITY | ||||
| JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences | ||||
| Article 16, Volume 42, No 2, March and April 2014, Page 494-509 PDF (428.09 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesaun.2014.114998 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Reem Wazz Amgad Ali1; Khaled Mohamed Ahmed El-Lithy2; MohamedAyman Daef3; Magdy Mohamed Radwan4 | ||||
| 1Lecturer Assistant, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt | ||||
| 2Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||||
| 3Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||||
| 4Professor of Architecture and buildings Physics Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Educational services in Egyptian cities are characterized by uneven level of service, where the disparity in social, economic and cultural aspects of population has contributed to service multiplicity and diversity levels to meet the population requirements. This has led to the spread of different spontaneous types of Elementary Schools in residential neighborhoods within the city, and without any planned consideration of the geographical distribution to fulfill the needs of neighbourhood populations. Specific types of Educational services are found in certain neighbourhoods, and not all. Using alternative types of transportation has encouraged the avoidance to choose closest schools to housing, and to focus on the appropriate level of service. In light of increasing diversity of primary schools, significance of this study is to reveal the requirements of population by extrapolating the current status of those schools, which could contribute to developing planning criteria for the Egyptian city. The methodology adopted in this paper is based on the assessment of population requirements, and the movement of pupils to Elementary Schools in Assiut City. Analysis of the current state of residential neighborhoods and the characteristics of available primary schools in each of them, besides the analysis of walking distances as an indicator of pupils movement to and from schools have been crucial to the adopted methodological approach. The research has used extrapolation methods based on a small sample of population from different neighborhoods as an indicator of population opinion about available Elementary Schools in the corresponding housing communities, and the movement of their children to schools. The paper is aimed at arriving to specific criteria which can be used to optimize the movement of pupils to and from Elementary Schools in residential neighborhoods in Assiut City. Socio-economic levels for residential neighborhoods and the social structure of its population, has been taken into account throughout the analysis. Pupils' movements to the different types of schools have been mapped in field-work study and questionnaire design, thus allowing the consideration of both social structures and location of schools relative to neighborhoods to be taken as well. The paper is concluded by defining a set of standards and controls that could express the nature of the actual movement of pupils to and from schools. Those represent the indicators that can be utilized - as well - to evaluate the current status of Elementary Schools distribution in Assiut City. | ||||
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