New Cairo's Urban Dynamics: Redefining Gentrification as a Main Actor of Social Resilience

Abstract

This paper introduces a new attempt to redefine and re-understand the term of gentrification and its main role in social resilience. Social resilience is a must in order to achieve urban sustainability. However, New Cairo's urban dynamics implicate a new form of “gentrification”, that could be described differently (commercial, social or urban) and controversially (positive or negative). This new ongoing process will threat eventually its “social resilience” by creating social polarization and loss of identity. In order to apprehend this new redefinition of gentrification in relation to social resilience, we will focus on the changes that are taking place in New Cairo's real estate market and urbanization trends as well as their reverberation on both the urban and social sustainability.