Investigating The Resilience of the Largest Capital Worldwide: Is Egypt’s new capital resilient and can withstand future challenges?

Tamer Gado; Akram Youssef

doi:10.37190/PLEA_2024

Investigating The Resilience of the Largest Capital Worldwide: Is Egypt’s new capital resilient and can withstand future challenges?

Tamer Gado
, Akram Youssef (Contributing member)

Architecture and Urban Planning

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Abstract

From Brasilia to Songdo to the yet-unnamed Egypt's new capital, the world has been facing a surge in the development of planned new capitals across the globe since the mid-1950s. In the MENA region alone, more than ten planned cities are currently being constructed, one of which is a new capital. In 2015, the Egyptian government announced a plan to build a new capital called the New Administrative Capital (NAC) to replace the over-thousand-year-old capital known for its Giza plateau and famous historic mosque skyline. Previous work did not investigate the economic feasibility or categorically conclude whether the NAC will be smart or sustainable and, thus, potentially be resilient. This paper investigates the NAC's smartness, economic feasibility, and sustainability. It was found that the NAC is not economically viable, does not yet have the potential to be smart, and will not perform highly on the three folds of sustainability.

Original language	English
Pages	171-176
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37190/PLEA_2024
Publication status	Published - 25 Jun 2024
Event	37th PLEA Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design: (Re)thinking resilience in the built environment - Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland Duration: 25 Jun 2024 → 28 Jun 2024 http://plea2024.pl

Conference

Conference	37th PLEA Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design
Abbreviated title	37th PLEA Conference - PLEA 2024
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Wrocław
Period	25/06/24 → 28/06/24
Internet address	http://plea2024.pl

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 1 No Poverty
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

MENA region
New Administrative Capital of Egypt
Resilience
Sustainable cities

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Architecture

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2024. 171-176 Paper presented at 37th PLEA Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design, Wrocław, Poland.

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