POVERTY AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT EFFECTS OF CONFLICT IN CITY DOWNTOWN A case Study: Koum El‐Deka area, Alexandria, Egypt | ||||
| Journal of Urban Research | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 8, Issue 1, July 2011, Page 82-106 PDF (3.43 MB) | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jur.2011.94274 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Islam Hamdi El‐Ghonaimy; Dalia Hussien El‐Dardiry | ||||
| Architecture Department Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Deteriorated housing conditions are found in large‐scale unplanned urban areas, which reflect its deterioration upon the residents on many levels. In city downtown, urban change problems are always accompanied with social problems and declining housing conditions. These circumstances produce an adverse impact on the environment, the human wellbeing and cause poverty problems. Urban development and human wellbeing improving strategies must be combined with widespread social security to provide an important cushion against poverty. The health conditions for poor people in the developing countries must cope with droughts, floods, illness, recession and civil strife. Questions raised in studying these developing processes are as follows: how can we control the housing state and the residential circumstances, in addition to the poverty conditions in these areas? How can we improve the deteriorated human wellbeing situation in the downtown areas? Can we insure against poverty? Why are governments unable to finance recurrent costs of projects when development assistance is withdrawn? Under what circumstances is it justifiable to continue development assistance when the recipient is unable to finance its recurrent budget? Can we investigate the links between the micro and macro levels of aid financed capacity building? Is the issue of low salaries in the public sector sufficient for a long time and does it constitute a major problem in all efforts to improve their institutional capacity? The research aims at studying the impact of the unplanned urban change in the city downtown upon the human wellbeing of its residents. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| poverty; downtown areas; urban change; Alexandria, Egypt | ||||
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