Greater Cairo Planning Commission

The Greater Cairo Planning Commission or GCPC was a planning body for Cairo, Egypt, which was created in 1965.[1][2]

It was superseded by the General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP).[3] The commission was approved by Presidential Decree No. 1093 of 1973.[4][5][6]

It has been said the body has often set unrealistic goals such as to "halve the population of a city".[3] This government body answers to The Supreme Council for Planning and Urban Development (SCPUD).[7]

Mainly the GOPP works with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).[8]

The work of the GOPP and all things related to Cairo's urbanization and problems of inequality is the focus of Tadamun, a project by the American University, in Washington DC.[9]

References
  1. John Waterbury (1978), Egypt: burdens of the past, options for the future
  2. Diane Singerman; Paul Amar (2006). Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-977-424-928-0. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  3. Elena Piffero (2009), What happened to participation? Urban development and authoritarian upgrading in Cairo's informal neighbourhoods
  4. "About the Authority General". GOPP.gov.
  5. Metropolitan Planning and Management in the Developing World: Spatial Decentralization Policy in Bombay and Cairo. UN-HABITAT. 1 January 1993. p. 142. ISBN 978-92-1-131233-1. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  6. "General Organization for Physical Planning". GOPP.Gov. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  7. "Know your government". Tadamun.co. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  8. "Strengthening Development Planning and Management in Greater Cairo" (PDF). UNDP. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  9. "TADAMUN: The Cairo Urban Solidarity Initiative". American.edu.
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