TY - BOOK
T1 - EcoCity roadmap for Egypt
T2 - Actions for eco-efficient urban development
AU - Tuominen, Pekka
AU - Antuña Rozado, Carmen
AU - Hedman, Åsa
AU - Jantunen, Jutta
AU - Pajula, Tiina
AU - AbdelMonteleb, Ahmed
AU - Abd Elhafez, Sara E.
AU - Balbaa, Ola
AU - Dawoud, Waled
AU - Elboshy, Bahaa
AU - ElMahgary, Yehia
AU - Elkafoury, Ahmed
AU - Elshafei, Ghada
AU - ElShazly, Ahmed
AU - GamalEldin, Mona
AU - Kamel, Ali
AU - Kamel, Mohamed
AU - Negm, Abdelazim
AU - Saeed, Heba
AU - Samy, Abeer
AU - Salem, Boshra
AU - Shahin, Mohamed
AU - El-Nashar, Ali
AU - Yousry, Ahmed
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Egypt's fast population growth together with economic
development is causing drastic pressures on
infrastructure, quality of life and the environment.
Effectively responding to this challenge requires a
strategic approach based on solutions that rely on
research and scientific evidence. This document
introduces an EcoCity roadmap for the development of
Egyptian cities into EcoCities.
The EcoCity approach is a multidisciplinary approach for
developing cities to sustainable, ecologically friendly
communities, spanning topics such as urban planning,
energy systems, water and waste management,
transportation planning and awareness-raising. This
roadmap was developed in a series of three
multidisciplinary workshops held in Egypt in 2013 and
2014 and commenting rounds following those events.
The development of the EcoCity roadmap has three major
uses: it aids in producing a consensus about a set of
needs and the technologies required to satisfy those
needs, it provides a mechanism to help forecast
technology developments and it functions as a framework
to help plan and coordinate future
technology developments.
The roadmap is presented in three parts: a vision for
EcoCities in Egypt, thematic outline roadmaps to guide
long term development and a listing of concrete
implementation actions for realizing the roadmap. Each
implementation action is a concrete recommendation for a
practical action.
Egypt faces many challenges at the present related to
fast growing cities, economic difficulties and
sustainable development. EcoCities should be seen as a
way to answer all three, rather than pushing to promote
one over the others. The proposed implementation actions
aim to reduce the reliance on imported energy, reduce
pollution, reduce congestion, conserve resources and
valuable nature while promoting local business and jobs,
improving mobility, improving the urban environment,
increasing the use of renewable resources and promoting
the participation of citizens.
AB - Egypt's fast population growth together with economic
development is causing drastic pressures on
infrastructure, quality of life and the environment.
Effectively responding to this challenge requires a
strategic approach based on solutions that rely on
research and scientific evidence. This document
introduces an EcoCity roadmap for the development of
Egyptian cities into EcoCities.
The EcoCity approach is a multidisciplinary approach for
developing cities to sustainable, ecologically friendly
communities, spanning topics such as urban planning,
energy systems, water and waste management,
transportation planning and awareness-raising. This
roadmap was developed in a series of three
multidisciplinary workshops held in Egypt in 2013 and
2014 and commenting rounds following those events.
The development of the EcoCity roadmap has three major
uses: it aids in producing a consensus about a set of
needs and the technologies required to satisfy those
needs, it provides a mechanism to help forecast
technology developments and it functions as a framework
to help plan and coordinate future
technology developments.
The roadmap is presented in three parts: a vision for
EcoCities in Egypt, thematic outline roadmaps to guide
long term development and a listing of concrete
implementation actions for realizing the roadmap. Each
implementation action is a concrete recommendation for a
practical action.
Egypt faces many challenges at the present related to
fast growing cities, economic difficulties and
sustainable development. EcoCities should be seen as a
way to answer all three, rather than pushing to promote
one over the others. The proposed implementation actions
aim to reduce the reliance on imported energy, reduce
pollution, reduce congestion, conserve resources and
valuable nature while promoting local business and jobs,
improving mobility, improving the urban environment,
increasing the use of renewable resources and promoting
the participation of citizens.
KW - EcoCity
KW - roadmap
KW - city planning
KW - renewable energy
KW - sustainability
M3 - Report
T3 - VTT Technology
BT - EcoCity roadmap for Egypt
PB - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
CY - Espoo
ER -
