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CPS2108 Azza Hassan

Determinants of Urban Development in Egypt
Azza Hassan
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract
This study uses data of the Arab Republic of Egypt covering the eleven years
2006–2016 to examine factors that drive urban development in Egypt.
Previous work has examined standard international measures of urban
development such as GDP, population density, and average income. In
particular, the study asks whether traditionally used economic factors
(education, environment, cultural industry, infrastructure, FDI, and
government spending) are most closely associated with urban development
in Egypt during this time period. Linear regressions are estimated with each of
the measures as the dependent variable. The results are presented and
discussed with implications for studying Egyptian urban development.

Keywords
Egypt; Urban Development; Urbanization

1. Introduction
Urbanization is defined as the transformation of the population from rural
to urban areas and a gradual increase in the proportion of people living in
urban areas, a major cause of urban problems. Urbanization is associated with
a range of disciplines such as geography, sociology, economics, urban
planning, Modernization, and industrialization. Urbanization leaves enormous
social, economic and environmental changes and has the potential to provide
sustainability opportunities with the ability to use resources more efficiently
and provide sustainable land (McGranahan, Satterthwaite 2014).
In this unprecedented era of growing urbanization, in the context of the
2030 Sustainable Development Plan, the Paris Agreement and other
agreements and global frameworks for development, we have reached a
critical point in understanding that cities can be the source of solutions, rather
than the challenges facing our world today. If urban planning is well planned
and well managed, it can be a powerful tool for sustainable development for
both developing and developed countries (Clos, 2017).
For the first time in the history of mankind, we are facing a change in the
numerical ratio of the population. The proportion of the urban population of
the world over the rural population as a result of recent statistics, considering
that 60% of the world population will live in urban areas until 2030, Of the

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