The socio-economic implications of the spatial configuration in greater Cairo metropolitan area
Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present the implications of the physical urban form on the socio-economic aspects of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Area.The purpose here is to understand the relationship between the socio-economic conditions of a settlement and its overall spatial structure.The spatial characteristics of socio-economically disadvantaged areas were compared with the rest of the city to explore the reasons behind in-equality in socio-economic aspects from a syntactic point of view.As it turns out, these disadvantaged areas have a strong internal spatial structure, but lack external integrators that link them to surrounding areas and the whole city.When correlating social and spatial factors, socio-economic differences are significantly correlated with the spatial structure of the street network.For instance, the regression analysis shows a strong correlation between literacy and crime rates, and angular global integration values.However, this is not the case for local integration.As such, poor spatial structure is a key factor of impeding development in areas of deprivation.Therefore the role of spatial configuration needs to be put on the agenda in future master plans of Cairo.
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1905898829