PROPOSED MODEL FOR ASSESSING THE GATED COMMUNITIES IN EGYPT USING FUZZY DELPHI EVALUATION MODEL

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Architecture Dept., Faculty of fine arts, University of Minia, Minia, Egypt

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Gated communities are one of the patterns that emerged with the beginning of the sixties, to achieve security, safety and uniqueness of some elite classes, and then later moved to become a kind of communities that achieves distinction for some individuals with the highest income class in society. And those communities emerged in the nineties in Egypt with the economic transformations of the pattern of free economy. The research conducted a study of the reasons for the selection of users of these communities, the reasons for their transition to and the requirements for satisfaction with them. The aim is to develop a model for assessing the success of the gated community and analyzing the weaknesses within it. To this end, the research used Fuzzy Delphi method (FDM), to deal with problems of verbal assessments, criteria overlaps and complexities, and confirm model building information. The main criteria for the model consisted of urban characteristics, economic characteristics, social characteristics, environmental characteristics, and administrative characteristics. The Fuzzy Delphi Evaluation Model  (FDEM) was applied to the Al-Rehab neighborhood in Cairo as a case study, and the results showed an average success for the neighborhood in meeting the requirements of residents, achieving a sense of security and safety at a low rate, achieving a distinctive lifestyle, and population satisfaction, at an average rate.

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