Updating Decentralization Policies and Strategies to Manage Urban Development in Informal Settlements

摘要

Urban development is the target assigned by countries. Under highly centralized systems, the desired development goals may not be achieved. Decentralization of the administration is the best way to manage urbanization services through strengthening the role of municipalities in decisions making, improving their efficiency, and connecting them to societies creating funding through dialogue and solutions reaching mechanisms rather than confrontations. Centrality in Egypt led to unbalanced urban development manifested in lack of services problems The basic challenge facing decentralization in Egypt is political and physical planning in nature. Although the constitutional and local administration system is not devoid Of the concept of decision-making and implementation decentralization, it refers to the distribution to multiple entities, including local units. The system was designed in a way that helps and supports Centrally managed development, and the elected councils are seen as auxiliaries to the local branches of the executive organs only. Hence came the idea of research to identify the concepts of centralization and decentralization and the reality of the relationship between them and urban development and to clarify the direct impact on the informal areas in Egypt after the recent variables.