The document provides an overview of the Maspero area in Cairo and its redevelopment story. It discusses Maspero's history from a glorious and populated area to one that faced eviction. It describes the current actors involved, including the Cairo governorate, investors, and advocacy groups. It finds issues like centralized planning, conflicts of interest, and lack of community representation. However, it also identifies supporting factors like political will and an active community association. In conclusion, it questions Maspero's future and whether the same disconnected approaches will continue or whether connections between policy and practice can be achieved.
3. If those in power claim
to be concerned with
sustainable urban
development, then why
is the urban condition
not improving?
4. I BACKGROUND
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Research Topic & Scope
Connecting Urban
Policy Making and
Implementation
*Cairo National context of
Egypt
Case of Maspero
5. Connecting Urban
Policy Making and
Implementation
*Cairo
Learning from
Maspero
Principles
Redefinero
les
* * Starting point
Short term Target
Long Term Target/Impact
I BACKGROUND
Research Topic & Scope
10. A vital area
An ongoing project
Availability of Data and persons for communication
Urgency of the situation/Area in need
A multi-dimensional case
Importance of the project
Uniqueness of the case
Complexity and opportunity to generalise research findings
A challenging case for politicians and planners (Abd el Kawy, 2015)
An example for: the disconnection, the parallel practice
and the connection of both domains
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II WHY MASPERO
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VI ACTORS & ROLES
*Cairo
Minister Laila Eskandar
(Political support)
Cairo
Govornorate
Gateway as an offical
consultant
MADD
(Parallel practice) Maspero Youth Association
(MYA)
Initiation
Response
Conflict
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VI ACTORS & ROLES
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VI ACTORS & ROLES
Roles
Facilitator
Reinforcing law
Caretaker of public benefit
Conflict of intrest of
Maspero company
public intrest is not
commonly defined among
governemental bodies
Profit making
workersfor
investorsor
governement
Reseaech
Natural
Leaders
Inhabitants
News
production
Profit
making
Indirect
Investor
Lawsand
Regulations
Undefined
public
News production
Protecting
rights
Advocacy
Advocacy
Protecting rights Research
Advocacy
Development
Negotiating their rights
for space
Conflict of intrest of
those working for the
investors
Governement Investors Media and
Political
parties
Human Rights
Organisations
Academia
and Project
partners
SectorExpectedRoleConflictWhathappensinreality
Residents
X?
39. VII FINDINGS
Issues and Concerns in Maspero
problem
in defining
urban areas
Centralized
and
personalized
planning
Conflict of
interest
?
Lack of
coordination
Lack of
represe-
ntation
Need to
tackle
Root of the
problem
Lack of civil
society
Laws
Excemption
Physical
planning
laws
Participation
undefined
What drives
development?
40. Supporting
factors
Strong and active political will
pro-development
Maspero Youth association
)people will(
Announcing the area as a replanning
area gives an opportunity for
development
Interest of the state to develop the
area
Constitution included informal areas
and right to adequete housing and
condemed forced evictions
Resisting
factors
Maspero
Now
Centralized and personalized planning
process
Lack of official representatives for the
community and absence of civil society
organisations
Lack of civil society organisations
Proposals ignore the root of the current
situation of Mixed land tenure
Announcing the area as a replanning area
gives more power to the state
Conflict of interest of the government as a
state and indirect investor
Many laws are exempted in Maspero
Recent attempts of forced evictions
VII FINDINGS
Lessons from Maspero
42. COMMUNICATION
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DEMOCRCACY
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V S I O
RANSPERANCY
DUCATION
APACITY BUILDING
WARENESS
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Towards Connection
ONITORING
VII FINDINGS
50. IX CONCLUSION
Final Remarks
“If you do what you have always done,
you will get what you have always gotten”
Anthony Robbins
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