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The use of urban planning in ancient Egypt is a matter of continuous debate. Because ancient sites usually survive only in fragments, and many ancient Egyptian cities have been continuously inhabited since their original forms, relatively little is actually understood about the general designs of Egyptian towns for any given period.
The New Administrative Capital (NAC) [1] [2] (Arabic: العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة, romanized: al-ʿĀṣima al-ʾIdārīya al-Gadīda) is the placeholder name for a new urban community in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite of Cairo City. It is planned to be Egypt's new capital and has been under construction since 2015. [3]
The pre-Classical and Classical periods saw a number of cities laid out according to fixed plans, though many tended to develop organically. Designed cities were characteristic of the Minoan, Mesopotamian, Harrapan, and Egyptian civilisations of the third millennium BC (see Urban planning in ancient Egypt).
The idea was approved and later unveiled by the Urban Development Consortium and the government to the public. [3] In January 2019, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, said that Egypt officially launched the first phase of construction of the Green River project designed by Dar Al Handasah. [9]
El-Nasr Housing and Development The Oblisco Capitale is a megatall skyscraper currently approved in the New Administrative Capital of the Republic of Egypt . Announced in 2018 as part of the Egypt Vision 2030 , the tower aims to surpass the height of the Burj Khalifa , targeting a proposed height of 1000 meters (1 kilometer ).
Egyptian officials, especially the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, Vice-Admiral Mohab Mamish, stated that the $8.2 billion project, which expands capacity to 97 ships per day, will more than double annual revenues to some $13.5 billion by 2023. That, however, would require yearly growth of 10%.
The GOPP works on preparing national plans, regional plans, strategic masterplans for cities, as well as urban plans for towns and villages across the country. [6]It has produced a series of masterplans for Greater Cairo, including the infamous Cairo 2050/2052 plan, [7] [8] that faced immediate criticism for its top-down mandates delivered as megaprojects that promised to displace large ...
The project is developed by the Arab Company for Projects and Urban Development SAE, a subsidiary of the EGX listed Talaat Mostafa Group Holding which is ultimately majority owned by the Egyptian Businessman Talaat Mostafa. [1] The Master Planners are HHCP Design International, Inc. The landscape architects are the SWA group.