Green Cities minimize environmental impacts and maximize opportunities to improve and support the natural environment. Those Cities are energy efficient and reduce reliance on nonrenewable energy sources; actively encourage waste reduction and management; include green and resilient infrastructure, low-carbon transport, and water cycle management; and deliver improved quality of life outcomes for residents. Existing gated communities has a good opportunity to turn into green communities, because it has its own management and operation system they do not rely on the government and local administrations, which leads to faster decision-making and implementation and it has its own budget not depending on the governmental budget. This book studies the characteristics of green cities and how to turn a community into green. It also studies and analyzes the possibilities for a gated community to turn into green through AL-Rehab case study, Egypt that can be afterwards form a guideline to other similar communities.

Dr Mona M. Abdel Wahed est maître de conférences en urbanisme et SIG au (HBRC), en Égypte. Elle est titulaire d'un doctorat en architecture et en urbanisme de la Faculté d'ingénierie de l'Université du Caire. Ashraf M. Kamal, est professeur d'urbanisme et d'économie au (HBRC), en Égypte. Il a publié plusieurs articles dans les domaines des communautés durables et de la vitalité économique.