ISIS: Information System for Informal Settlements

Résumé En Fr

The aim of this project is to build the framework for a GIS database focusing on informal settlements in the Greater Cairo Region, but also considered in their context as a part of the general land use of the region; • Secondly, it gives a first detailed analysis on recent trends of physical transformations, growth and changes of space used from 1991 to 1998 within the Greater Cairo Region, linked with demographic trends. (See Annex 1 for technical details for these two parts of the activities of co-operation); • Thirdly, it proposes a typology to develop this first product in more detail and to extend the analysis and promote an approach in terms of informal settlement development and upgrading of disadvantaged areas. It has been developed in co-operation with David Sims (see D. Sims working paper titled: “Upgrading Disadvantaged Areas, Greater Cairo Mapping Project”).

Ce rapport présente les résultats d'un projet de développement d'une base de données géographiques diachroniques permettant de qualifier l'évolution de la distribution de l'habitat illégal dans la région du Grand Caire entre 1991 et 1998. Il propose ensuite une typologie des formes urbaines et des dynamiques.