El Gouhary, M., A. Abdin, and H. Khalil, "Upgrading Informal Areas Through Sustainable Urban Development Principles", Journal for Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 71, issue 65, 2024.
Farrag, F., and H. Khalil, "The Virtuality of Intelligent Cities- The Road to Hybridizing Our New Cities", ASCAAD 2022, Architecture in the Age of the Metaverse: Opportunities and Potentials, 2022.
Thuvander, L., and H. Khalil, "Multi-level Climate Governance at COP27: Enable City Actions, Commentary", Buildings & Cities Journal, 2022.
Kloss, P., H. A. Khalil, and A. Lotfata, "Greenery Measures to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effect in Unplanned Areas: Imbaba, Giza, Egypt", Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities: IGI Global, 2022.
Khalil, H. A., A. K. Ibrahim, N. Elgendy, and N. Makhlouf, "Enhancing Livability in Informal Areas: A Participatory Approach to Improve Urban Microclimate in Outdoor Spaces", Sustainability, vol. 14, issue 11, pp. 6395, 2022. Website
Khalil, H. A., and D. El-Sherif, "Needs Assessment on Land Governance in Egypt", Land Tenure Systems in North Africa, A Scoping Study, Addis Ababa, SLGA, GIZ, 2022.
Gad, H., S. Attia, and H. A. Khalil, "Rereading Cairo through Neighbouring Patterns Between Formal and Informal Areas, Case Study: Ard Al-Lewaa and ElMohandeseen", Ecocity World Summit 2021, Rotterdam, Netherland, 21 Feb, 2022.
Farouk, S., S. Attia, and H. A. Khalil, "Evaluation of Open Spaces in Relocated Communities Using Affordance Theory Case Study: Al-Asmarat Community", IOP proceedings, 14th International conference on civil and architecture engineering (ICCAE), Cairo, Egypt, 2022.
Kafrawy, M., S. Attia, and H. Khalil, "The Impact of Transit-Oriented Development on Fast-Urbanizing Cities: Applied analytical study on Greater Cairo Region", Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, vol. 6, issue 1, pp. 83-95, 2022. Abstract

Transportation has always been the backbone of development. Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been theorized, piloted and expanded increasingly in the past few decades. In this regard, this paper investigates the relationship between urban development, the transportation process, and the required implementation guidelines within fast-urbanizing cities, such as Cairo. After reviewing different related sustainable development theories, the study investigates pioneering case studies that have applied TOD and provided adequate implementation frameworks. The authors then extract and compare a set of required policies. The current Egyptian development paradigm is then discussed in relation to these enabling policies, focusing on Greater Cairo Region, Egypt. The authors debate previous development plans, progress, and newly proposed ones, focusing on the transportation process as the means for development. The study concludes with a set of required guidelines to ensure the integration of transportation with land-use planning, thus ensuring a more prosperous and inclusive urban development.

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