ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES FOR SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING CASE STUDY: ALEX-WEST COMPOUND, ALEXANDRIA

Planning new sustainable neighborhoods is essential to achieve environmentally friendly, economically vibrant, culturally meaningful cities. Building new communities that are physically and socially sustainable is a challenge when resolving the city‟s housing crisis and avoiding problems. These new communities that are physically and socially sustainable to resolve the communities‟ housing and environmental degradation , problems of poverty,and insecurity. Moreover, there are other challenges for planning the sustainable neighborhoods. Sustainable urban planning plays an important role in achieving sustainable growth and development by integrating sustainable development principles in urban planning strategies.However, sustainable urban development of neighborhoods is important to achieve the goals of environmental improvements through the development of land use, transportation, housing, energy efficiency, economic development, and public health. Based on the literature review ,the environmental aspects of urban development strategies are deduced to help neighborhoods achieve the sustainable goals studied . Then by analyzing international and local case studies the paper concludes guidelines to be applied in planning sustainable neighborhoods. Finally, the design guidelines for sustainable neighborhood planning are deduced and applied on Alex west an existing residential neighborhood in Alexandria, some of the guidelines are applied in the chosen neighborhood.