Case Study: Cairo - attempts to solve urban problems in a LEDC
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- Case Study: Cairo - attempts to solve urban problems in LEDCs
- Sewage
- Only designed for half a million people (its over 7 million now)
- Its falling apart and sewage is being left in the street
- Projects have been introduced to repair and extend sewage systems
- Zabbaleen people sort rubbish they've been given licenes to work in a larger area
- Housing
- 80% of housing is informal
- Food storage
- Cemetery housing
- 2m^2 per a person
- Building housing on infertile land with open spaces, mosques, shopping centres and industrial zones
- 80% of housing is informal
- Traffic congestion
- Lots of people = lots of cars
- Old cars leads to lots of pollution
- Introduction of metro
- Its friendly, inviting people to use it
- Well organised and quick
- Population issues
- From 1970 - 2000 the population size doubled and is still increasing at an increasing rate
- Building housing on infertile land...
- Building housing on infertile land with open spaces, mosques, shopping centres and industrial zones
- Sewage
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