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Urban boundaries of the cities through 2006, 2017

According to the computed values in table2 the
following table shows the indicator computedrates

The results shows that if the indicator (LCRPGR) is greater than one, it
means consumption of land is faster than the population growth and if the
indicator is less than one revealing Faster population growth than city land
uptake. Cairo and Zakazek have indicator below 1, New Cairo and Menia have
indicator above 1. According to these results it could be observed that the new
development cities as New Cairo have faster growth of land consumption than
population, the same for Menia city although it is not a new development city
but its population less than 500,00. Also it is observed that the old and big
cities with population greater than 500,000 as Zakazek and Cairo, they have
faster growth of population than land consumption and this leads to make
these cities enlarge vertically causing problems of insufficient basic urban
services, transportation and infrastructure.

4. Conclusion
With the rapid increasing of population in Egypt (the annual population
growth is 2.56 %) the monitoring of SDG 11.3 target which aims to «enhance
inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory,
integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in
all countries» is essential. The paper explained how to apply GIS techniques,
remote sensing and census data to measure the indicators: ratio between the
land use consumption rate and population growth rate, Indicator 11.3.1 on
different cities with different criteria in Egypt as a case study, Cairo city as an
urban big city, Zakazek as a city in lower Egypt , Menya as city in upper Egypt
and New Cairo city as a new developed settlement. This indicator monitors the
relation between land consumption and population growth to inform and

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