Tracing the Urban Sprawl in the Secondary Egyptian Cities: A Comparison-Based Review for Achieving an Efficient Urban Development.

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1 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Minia University, Egypt

2 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Minia University, Egypt.

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Urban sprawl is an observed remarkable phenomenon within a city's structure. It translates its behavior of urban growth through creating newly developed areas to fulfill the increasing urban demands of its inhabitants. Although urban sprawl happens in all rural and urban settlements, it is essential to trace this phenomenon in the secondary cities as they consider transitional zones for various activities between the rural settlements and primate cities. Therefore, the research attempts to trace this phenomenon inside the secondary Egyptian cities through a deductive approach to locally state this phenomenon and deal with it according to the intermediate role of these cities. Firstly, the research defines the phenomenon of urban sprawl and its reasons by detecting a group of pillars that generally affect its occurrence. Subsequently, it moves to secondary Egyptian cities and compares, globally and locally, the appearance of these pillars. Finally, the research frames features of concurrence and conflict between the global and local appearance of reasons for urban sprawl in the secondary Egyptian cities. Subsequently, it figures the learned lessons from its comparison-based review for the reasons for urban sprawl by proposing a road map that can help in mitigating this phenomenon within the secondary Egyptian cities.

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