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energy responsive. There are a number of ideas and actions that, if gathered
and formulated into a strategy, could present a pioneer example within local
contexts of the developing world.
In the progress of strategically planning the city of Ashmun in the gover-
norate of Menoufia, Egypt, a number of ideas and requests were submitted by
the local community that are energy responsive in essence (Figure 2.4) [108].
1. Preserving city boundaries with minimal increase just to accom-
modate future needed services and the preservation of agricultural
land.
2. The need to build a ring road to increase transportation efficiency
and decrease energy consumption and pollution.
3. Increasing the heights to double the street width (law specifies max
building height = 1.5 street width) in structurally fit buildings to
become four floors instead of only three floors. Thus dandifying
existing urban areas instead of horizontal spread of the city.
4. Non-inclusion of sprawling houses in city limits in order to prevent
or minimise future expansion on agricultural land.
5. Wise location of needed services, appropriate rates per capita of ser-
vices and facilities, and their concentration in single location central
to community.
6. Advocating mixed uses as commercial/residential uses.
FIGURE 2.4
Keeping Ashmun city boundaries to the minimum and preserving surrounding agricultural
land. (From Associated Consultants. (2008).
Strategic Planning for Ashmun City, Menoufia, Egypt
,
Ministry of Housing, Utilities & Urban Communities and The General Organization of Physical
Planning (GOPP), Cairo, Egypt.)
