Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: It has been crystal clear that Gated Communities became one of the most noticeable urbanization features that have recently spread massively in the Egyptian Real Estate Market with the expansion of Greater Cairo. The Gated Communities phenomenon became noticeable in Egypt due to several motives such as developing sustainable and healthy communities. They must promote walkability as their mobility network because walkability is an essential tool in implanting Sustainable Healthy Gated Communities. Walkability has always been correlated with human health and well-being, and the walking behavior is massively influenced by the gated community's urban design. A low rate of walkability affects human health, well-being, and quality of life. Since Gated Communities in Egypt don't promote walkability, due to the lack of specialized sustainable urban design principles and patterns for it. This study aims to: define and clarify the sustainable urban design principles and patterns specialized for Gated Communities to promote walkability. GCWDEM is a model to be inducted that bears the ability to measure the design efficiency of gated communities' walkability principles. This innovated model will have the ability to be integrated within the design process as a proactive approach, or to be applied to the existing projects as a reactive approach.
Institution: Cairo University
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4295798461