THE SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO RESIDENTIAL TOWERS PHENOMENA) COMPARATIVE ECOLOGICAL STUDY

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 Faculty of Girls of Literature, Science and Education, Ain Shams University

2 Faculty of Regional and Urban Planning, Cairo University

3 General Authority for Physical Planning

Abstract

The study aims to identify The Socio-Psychological and Environmental Problems Related to Residential Towers Phenomena through Comparative Ecological Study in different regions to identify the most important problems that resulted from the construction of these residential towers, to contribute to access to solutions or reduce the effects or reduce If possible in the future .
The importance of the study is to be an attempt to study the phenomenon of residential towers as one of the phenomena that spread widely in the Egyptian society, especially in areas that did not plan and did not prepare for the construction of these towers, which led to the emergence of many problems, including social problems, psychological and environmental problems and increasing day by day, Dimensional solutions to reach effective solutions to address them.
The study was based on the analytical and comparative descriptive methods. A sample of (150) individual was selected for (75) individual for each of the residents of the towers in the areas of Helmiyeh El Zaitoun and El Matareya.
The study used a number of tools, including questionnaire, interview and case study. It also used several sources: field visits, interviews with experts, documents, records, photographs and maps.
The results of the study indicate that the reasons for the trend of housing in the residential towers were increasing household income, congestion, noise, pollution and the failure of the former housing for all their needs. The study also revealed the emergence of many problems due to the construction of residential towers such as weak social relations between residents of residential towers and their disintegration, And the lack of interest of its residents in the maintenance of facilities, and the lack of privacy in the design of most of them and not to meet the requirements of different children, in addition to that the interruption of electricity depends with everything completely electricity, water, elevators, etc.
 

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