Smart Growth and Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Policies Approach towards Achieving Egypt’s 2030 Vision of Sustainable Urban Development

Abstract

Egypt’s Vision 2030 for sustainable urban development considers as the most two important government documents that are released in 2017, the represent the major urban challenges in the next 12 years as it draws clearly the future or urban development and how achieve balance between urban areas and natural and physical resources. The document which is released and announced in 2017 focused on a number of important sustainable issues such as; decentralization of social services to prevent internal immigration, expanding the execution of media awareness programs to encourage migration from the current inhabited areas to the new development areas and the economic incentives accompanying such migration (official website www.sdsegypt2030.com). This paper discusses and analyze the relevant concepts of smart growth that could be useful for executing the future vision of sustainable urban development in Egypt, the paper reviews the proposed 2030 sustainable urban development vision and the policies suggestions, and discusses how smart growth and transit-oriented development (TOD) policies could contribute to achieve such ambitious urban strategies. Keywords: Egypt 2030 vision, sustainable urban development, smart growth, transit-oriented development (TOD).