New Borg El Arab (New Ameriya), Egypt, Africa
Year 1979 latitude: 30° 50' longitude: 29° 33' Period Initiator(s) Government of Egypt Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 150,000 Target population 570,000 Town website Town related links http://www.newcities.gov.eg/english/New_Communities/Borg_Arab/default.aspx http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/749891468023382999/pdf/411780v10R EVIS1Box0327393B01PUBLIC1.pdf http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/749891468023382999/Urban-sector-u pdate Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
New Ameriya is part of the large-scale national plan that from the mid 1970s planned the construction of 14 new urban centers, satellites or new towns, around the regions of Greater Cairo and Alexandria, to face the rapid population growth. Subsequently the city was renamed “Bourg el Arab el Gedida”, known also as New Bourg. Other cities that are part of the same national plan are 10th Ramadan, 6th October, Al Badr, Sadat City. source:
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