Horizontal urban growth in the rural of Sharkia Governorate during the period (1986 – 2016)

Abstract:
           The area of ​​urban or built-up area is the area used in construction, not agricultural. This area occupies a spatial space that varies from one urban center to another and from time to time. It was possible through the study of maps and satellite images in 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2016. The urban area was 471.7 km2 (112,309.52 feddans) in 2016, up from 161.3 km2 (38404.76 feddans), an increase of 471.7 km 2 (112309.52 feddans) in 2016. 310.4 km 2, and an average increase of 10.34 km 2 years The center of Al-Ibrahimia was the smallest in the size of the urban increase, which did not exceed the area of ​​4.8 km2 (1142.85 feddans) on The length of this period.
        Urban development is a complex process caused by many environmental, economic, social and political factors combined, and since the geographical study confirms the existence of spatial relations between the phenomena and some of them, this growth did not come from a vacuum, but the result of several geographical and non-geographical factors, In addition to population growth as a major factor in urban growth, there are many other factors, some of which have a direct role in urban growth such as average household size, economic openness and travel abroad, Of indirect, such as changing the economic structure of the population.