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New Administrative Capital
New Administrative Capital (NAC) () is a New Urban Communities Authority, new urban community east of New Cairo in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite city of Cairo. As of May 2023, 14 ministries and government entities have been relocated there. In April 2, 2024, president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took the constitutional oath for a third consecutive term in office, officially inaugurating the New Administrative Capital as the seat of government. Plans for the new capital were announced by the then Egyptians, Egyptian Ministry of Housing, Utilities & Urban Communities (Egypt), housing minister Mostafa Madbouly at the Egypt Economic Development Conference on the 13th of March, 2015. The capital city is considered one of the projects for economic development, and is part of a larger initiative called Egypt Vision 2030. Over the years attempts were made to give the city a name, other than the New Administrative Capital. A competition was launched on the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green River Park
Green River Park () also referred to as Capital Park () is a planned, river-like series of large-scale urban parks located in the New Administrative Capital of Egypt. When fully finished, it will span over , and cover a total area of , making it six times the size of Central Park in New York City. The Prime Minister of Egypt, Mostafa Madbouly, stated that all 20 neighbourhoods in the new capital will be linked to the Green River, which is meant to mimic the Nile River's passage through the middle of Cairo. The Green River focuses on attracting investments as the park will generate 300,000 new employment opportunities, as well as boost Egypt's economic growth, as the park will be accepting a capacity of 370,000 visitors per day. It is planned to be the longest green hub in the world. Construction In 2016, !melk and EDSA presented their first idea to both Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Mostafa Madbouly, and Egypt's President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. In 2018 the fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Housing, Utilities & Urban Communities (Egypt)
Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities (MoHUUC) is responsible for addressing Egypt's housing issues, with a mandate to provide public housing, drinking water and wastewater treatment utilities, and the planning and subdivision of new urban communities. It is headquartered in Cairo since its inception in 1961, and administers the nation's largest real estate developer, the New Urban Communities Authority, and the largest contractor, the Arab Contractors. History 1950-1961 As the government started taking a serious interest in public housing in the later 1940s, on 17 August, 1950, the first official office for housing, the Department of Popular Homes (''Idarat al-masakin al-sha'biya''), was established within the Ministry of Social Affairs. When public housing production expanded in the 1950s, it was renamed as the Department of Housing and moved to the Ministry of Municipal and Village Affairs. It was only in 1961, after a large scale restructuring of governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mostafa Madbouly
Mostafa Kamal Madbouly (born 28 April 1966) is an Egyptian politician who serves as the 54th and current Prime Minister of Egypt. He was appointed by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to succeed Sherif Ismail following his government's resignation in the wake of Sisi's re-election. Madbouly also served in Sherif Ismail's cabinet as Ministry of Housing, Utilities & Urban Communities (Egypt), Minister of Housing, and had also briefly served as acting prime minister. Career Madbouly graduated from Cairo University, receiving a master's degree and PhD from the Faculty of Engineering in 1988 and 1997, respectively. Housing and Building Research Center Madbouly started his career at the government's Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC), becoming the director of the Training and Urban Studies Institute there. General Organisation for Physical Planning From September 2009 until November 2011, Madbouly was the chairman of the urban planning authority, the General Organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smart City
A smart city is an urban area that uses digital technology to collect data and operate services. Data is collected from citizens, devices, buildings, or cameras. Applications include traffic and transportation systems, power plants, utilities, urban forestry, water supply networks, waste disposal, criminal investigations, information systems, schools, libraries, hospitals, and other community services. The foundation of a smart city is built on the integration of people, technology, and processes, which connect and interact across sectors such as healthcare, transportation, education, infrastructure, etc. Smart cities are characterized by the ways in which their local governments monitor, analyze, plan, and govern the city. In a smart city, data sharing extends to businesses, citizens, and other third parties who can derive benefit from using that data. The three largest sources of spending associated with smart cities as of 2022 were visual surveillance, public transit, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo Light Rail Transit
The Cairo Light Rail Transit (Arabic: القطار الكهربائي الخفيف) or Cairo LRT is an electrified regional rail system linking the city of Cairo to Egypt's New Administrative Capital and the 10th of Ramadan City. An initial 70 km route consisting of 12 stations was inaugurated on 3 July 2022. Although it is named "Cairo Light Rail Transit", the system is not a light rail in the sense the term is commonly used among transportation professionals, where it is used for systems based on modernised tram technology. Instead the "LRT" is a system based on railway technology, with trains reaching 120 km/h during revenue service. Further phases of the project are currently being built by a partnership between Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels and a consortium of Chinese construction companies. The full system is projected to extend over 100 km with 19 stations. The Cairo LRT system is operated and maintained by RATP Dev and CAC (CREC and AVIC) under contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disneyland
Disneyland is a amusement park, theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It was the first theme park opened by the Walt Disney Company and the only one designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney, and opened on July 17, 1955. Disney initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), studios in Burbank, California, Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit; however, he soon realized that the proposed site was too small for the ideas that he had. After hiring the Stanford Research Institute to perform a feasibility study determining an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a site near Anaheim in 1953. The park was designed by a creative team hand-picked by Walt from internal and outside talent. They founded WED Enterprises, the precursor to today's Walt Disney Imagineering. Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a special televised press event on the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feddans
A feddan () is a unit of area used in Egypt, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and Oman. In Classical Arabic, the word means 'a yoke of oxen', implying the area of ground that could be tilled by oxen in a certain time. In Egypt, the feddan is the only non-metric unit which remained in use following the adoption of the metric system. A feddan is divided into 24 kirat (, ''qīrāt''), with one kirat equalling 175 square metres. Equivalent units 1 feddan = 24 kirat = 60 metre × 70 metre = 4200 square metres (m2) = 0.420 hectares = 1.037 acres In Syria, the feddan is a vaguer quantity, referring to the amount of land that can be ploughed by a pair of oxen in a year, being about .''A Handbook of Syria: Including Palestine''. (1920:324). United Kingdom: H.M. Stationery Office. See also *Acre *Dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Business District
A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city centre" or "downtown". However, these concepts are not necessarily synonymous: many cities have a central ''business'' district located away from its traditional city center, and there may be multiple CBDs within a single urban area. The CBD will often be highly accessible and have a large variety and concentration of specialised goods and services compared to other parts of the city. Midtown Manhattan is the world's largest central business district. In the City of London, the largest concentration of economic output in the world is held there, with many headquarters of major financial and law firms being based in the City. In Chicago, the Chicago Loop is the second-largest central business district in the United States. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Statesman
''The New Statesman'' (known from 1931 to 1964 as the ''New Statesman and Nation'') is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney Webb, Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a founding director. The longest-serving editor was Kingsley Martin (1930–1960), and the most recent editor was Jason Cowley (journalist), Jason Cowley, who assumed the post in 2008 and left in 2024. Today, the magazine is a print–digital hybrid. According to its present self-description, it has a modern Liberalism in the United Kingdom, liberal and Independent progressive, progressive political position. Jason Cowley (journalist), Jason Cowley, the magazine's editor, has described the ''New Statesman'' as a publication "of the left, for the left" but also as "a political and literary magaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suez
Suez (, , , ) is a Port#Seaport, seaport city with a population of about 800,000 in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal. It is the capital and largest city of the Suez Governorate. It has three ports: the Suez Port (Port Tewfik), al-Adabiya, and al-Zaytiya, and extensive port facilities. Together, the three cities form the Suez metropolitan area, located mostly in Africa with a small portion in Asia. Railway lines and highways connect the city with Cairo, Port Said, and Ismailia. Suez has a petrochemical plant, and its oil refineries have pipelines carrying the finished product to Cairo. These are represented in the flag of the governorate: the blue background refers to the sea, the gear refers to Suez's status as an industrial governorate, and the flame refers to the petroleum firms of Suez. The modern city of Suez is a successor of the ancient city of Clysma, a major Red Sea port and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Road (Cairo)
The Cairo Ring Road is a 100km long ring road that encircles most of the contiguous metropolitan area of the cities of Cairo, Giza and Shubra El Kheima, Shubra Al-Kheima, in the Greater Cairo region in Egypt. Construction began in the late 1980s. It was originally planned to surround the Greater Cairo region from three of its four sides, but part of the road remains unbuilt because the original route took it very near the Giza pyramids, an area which has been on the UNESCO's World Heritage List since 1979. It had two purposes: stopping the urbanization of arable lands, and reducing Cairo's traffic. In the early 2000s, planning for a Regional Ring Road (Egypt), regional ring road commenced, enclosing the larger metropolitan area including El Shorouk, New Cairo and Helwan in the Cairo Governorate, Obour (city), Obour in the Qalyubiyya Governorate and 6th of October (city), 6th of October in the Giza Governorate, which was completed in 2018. History There were three master plans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamel Al-Wazir
Kamel al-Wazir () is the transportation minister, the industry and trade minister and the deputy prime minister of Egypt. He succeeded Minister Hisham Arafat who resigned after the Ramses Station rail disaster. Kamel al-Wazir had been heading the Engineering Authority of the Armed Forces before being appointed the minister. During his tenure, an accident happened as two trains collided near Sohag, for which he issued an official apology. Early life and career Wazir studied Civil and Architectural Engineering at the Military Technical College and also holds a Masters in Military Sciences. He was involved in key projects of Egypt like digging of the new Suez Canal The Suez Canal (; , ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, Indo-Mediterranean, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest ..., developing the Al Galala Plateau in Ain Sukhna. He was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
