Land Uses in the Cities of Qantara: A Study in Urban Geography

Hassan, Shyma Khaled

doi:10.21608/jsdses.2024.255412.1024

Land Uses in the Cities of Qantara: A Study in Urban Geography

Document Type : scientific research and articles

Author

Shyma Khaled Hassan

Department of Geography and Geographic Information Systems, Faculty of Arts, Port Said University, Egypt

10.21608/jsdses.2024.255412.1024

Abstract

The research deals with the study of land uses in the two cities of Qantara by studying the relative distribution of urbanly exploited lands and vacant lands in the two cities. In addition, it explores the relative distribution of urbanly exploited lands according to the type of use in the two cities as well as land ownership in the two cities of Qantara. Moreover, the residential use area came in first place and the industrial use in second place in the city of Qantara Sharq. The residential use area also came in first place in Qantara Gharb and in second place came the educational use.

Keywords

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Main Subjects

Sustainable Cities

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