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AN APPROACH TO ECONOMICAL ANALYSES OF RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT WITH REFERENCE TO EGYPT
Egypt, the United Arab Republic, is passing through a period of great evolution. Country-wide constructional projects are required in the near and the far future to cope with the aim of raising the standard of living of the people and the progress of the country. This realizes the importance of the construction industry and its role in the progress of the country.
Housing represents the biggest single section of the construction industry. The importance of housing arose from the fact that housing conditions affect the hygienic, cultural, and social conditions of its residents.
Although most of the funds should be directed to fulfill the country’s developmental plans of the productive section of economy, yet great capitals of money are invested on house building. The aim of the housing programme is to solve the problem of shortage of housing and to provide suitable, healthy and wel1 constructed houses. Masses of houses were, are, and will be built. From the fact that the 1imited capitals of money must be fully expended in a way to fulfill the building of the greatest-good number of houses, the importance of the economy of residential development arose. The aim of the economy of residential development is not to build with the cheapest costs, but to build with the lowest possible costs the adequate residential buildings, and to arrange them and their environment in a manner suitable for the people for whom they were built.
The aim of this study is to find an approach to economical analyses of residential development. For this aim the different main forces which directly or indirectly play their role in the economic appraisal of a residential development were investigated.
Chapter I. to Chapter IV. Is a general survey of Egypt, its population, and housing and town planning characteristics, which are the basic point from which this investigation could be started.
In Chapter V. the importance of the construction industry and its role in the economy of a nation is pointed out.
Chapter VI. shows the effect of the systems of construction on the costs of residential buildings.
In Chapter VII. the role of the most important non-economic forces which directly or indirectly affect the residential development, its planning and design, and hence its costs were studied.
The direct factors which affect the costs of residential development were determined in Chapter VIII.
Finally, in Chapter IX. an economic investigation of the costs of a neighborhood unit was made with aim to show the relationship between grose densities and the changes in the costs of the neighborhood unit and the costs of its different elements.
Due to the lack of the necessary data for calculation the Hungarian unit costs of the different elements of a neighborhood unit were used for the completion of this investigation. Of course, the final results, in numbers, are not valid for Egypt, but the general trend of the results of this investigation, in my opinion, is useful. The aim of those investigation was not to find real costs, but to study the trend of the change of the costs.
Later on, in Egypt, when the necessary data will be available, a modification of the coat results could be made.
Housing represents the biggest single section of the construction industry. The importance of housing arose from the fact that housing conditions affect the hygienic, cultural, and social conditions of its residents.
Although most of the funds should be directed to fulfill the country’s developmental plans of the productive section of economy, yet great capitals of money are invested on house building. The aim of the housing programme is to solve the problem of shortage of housing and to provide suitable, healthy and wel1 constructed houses. Masses of houses were, are, and will be built. From the fact that the 1imited capitals of money must be fully expended in a way to fulfill the building of the greatest-good number of houses, the importance of the economy of residential development arose. The aim of the economy of residential development is not to build with the cheapest costs, but to build with the lowest possible costs the adequate residential buildings, and to arrange them and their environment in a manner suitable for the people for whom they were built.
The aim of this study is to find an approach to economical analyses of residential development. For this aim the different main forces which directly or indirectly play their role in the economic appraisal of a residential development were investigated.
Chapter I. to Chapter IV. Is a general survey of Egypt, its population, and housing and town planning characteristics, which are the basic point from which this investigation could be started.
In Chapter V. the importance of the construction industry and its role in the economy of a nation is pointed out.
Chapter VI. shows the effect of the systems of construction on the costs of residential buildings.
In Chapter VII. the role of the most important non-economic forces which directly or indirectly affect the residential development, its planning and design, and hence its costs were studied.
The direct factors which affect the costs of residential development were determined in Chapter VIII.
Finally, in Chapter IX. an economic investigation of the costs of a neighborhood unit was made with aim to show the relationship between grose densities and the changes in the costs of the neighborhood unit and the costs of its different elements.
Due to the lack of the necessary data for calculation the Hungarian unit costs of the different elements of a neighborhood unit were used for the completion of this investigation. Of course, the final results, in numbers, are not valid for Egypt, but the general trend of the results of this investigation, in my opinion, is useful. The aim of those investigation was not to find real costs, but to study the trend of the change of the costs.
Later on, in Egypt, when the necessary data will be available, a modification of the coat results could be made.
93 pages, Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 1969
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