The role of green space to achieved environmental sustainability

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urban design-faculty of urban &regional planning -Cairo university

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The importance of green spaces has increased in cities as a result of urban sprawl after the industrial revolution, therefore garden cities and satellite cities were established depending on green spaces showed the vital role of vegetation cover in facing global warming, by reducing greenhouse gases, such as second and first Carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and increasing the vegetation areas to avoid the environmental threats that threatens everyone during the 21st century.
Therefore, all countries, through the conferences at the Rio de Janeiro Summit 1987 to the Paris Summit 2015, are looking for sustainable development that depends on the environmental aspects, economic aspects and social aspects.
From this point the research studies the green spaces in Cairo and the application of standards and guidelines set by Law 119 of 2008 and its executive regulations to approve the goals and general policies for planning, urban development, and urban coordination in order to reach a sustainable green environmental city.

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