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Abstract
Before creating man, Allah created the heavens, the earth and their
resources to serve this coming creature and assist him in doing what he was
commanded to do. Planning is a profession that has to cope with available
’limited’ resources while forming man’s future living environment.
Moreover, It has to offer sustainable strategies to ensure the right of good
life for coming generations.
Proper implementation of good development plans is a critical aspect
in regulating spatial development. Although proposing many plans - master
plans or strategic plans - at all planning levels, their implementations, in
general, are still far from attaining the satisfaction of citizens, planners and
governments.
In Egypt, there are many complexities affecting spatial planning. These
complexities are related to actors, stakeholders, responsibilities and
processes at different levels. Moreover, land mandates and financial
aspects are important factors that usually have to be taken into account
while practicing spatial planning.
The motivation for this research was the belief that there is a better way
to link spatial phenomena characteristics under planning process,
stakeholders, guiding policies and their ill-defined problem with an
evolving support system, in a way that can facilitate understanding the
complexities, and mitigate the deviations in spatial planning processes and
implementations.
The research aim was to design a framework for spatial planning
system in Egypt. This framework guarantees that spatial analyses for
phenomena and effects, spatial and non-spatial, relating to strategic
planning, will be intelligent enough to understand the entanglement related
to the system in a comprehensive way. To design this framework, firstly,
the research reviewed and analyzed the different trends for SPSS; then it
analyzed the spatial planning legislative landscape in Egypt in order to
extract a set of political, social, economic, physical elements and
environmental determinants influencing spatial planning with regard to their temporal and spatial boundaries. Ln this context, this framework
enables planning experts, facilitators, stakeholders and different levels of
decision-makers in supporting decisions associated with strategic planning
using simulation methods that represent the input elements and spatial /
non-spatial entanglements analytical methods and alternatives in different
strategic planning scenarios.
The research suggested an SPSS framework that contains four
components as a logical target focal point for expressing the evolution of a
spatial problem, and reflecting that evolution into the support system. This
framework pays attention to the contradictions and gaps which need to be
narrowed down between elements forming the complete spatial planning
pictures. Rather than abstracting the process which often happens while
doing research on spatial planning, this research decomposed the process
into its components, sub components and smaller elements. Using
componentization while assembling SPSS enables stakeholders to cover
their needs required to deal with spatial planning issues.
The research concludes that there are many aspects which have to be
considered while practicing spatial planning. Using this framework allows
all entities related to spatial planning to deal with spatial problems with a
more comprehensive specific view to include all aspects which have to be
taken into account by disassembling a spatial issue into more manageable
components. These entities include legislature, decision makers,
community stakeholders, media, and disciplines-specialists.
The research concludes also that there are many analyses- other than
commonly used ones - which have to be done while preparing planning
alternatives. Using alternate scenarios enables policy / decision makers and
stakeholders to investigate the outcome of actions on the model. With a
clear definition of the target component in terms of variables and
constraints, decision makers focus their attention on the evaluation
component.