TY - BOOK AU - Dina Ossama Ibrahim Abdelazim Mansour AU - Tamer Elkhorazaty , AU - Waffa Nadim , TI - Dimensions of flexibility in housing : : Synergies between informal housing in Egypt and Japanese Housing / PY - 2017/// CY - Cairo : PB - Dina Ossama Ibrahim Abdelazim Mansour , KW - Adaptability KW - Egypt KW - Flexibility N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Postgraduate Studies and Scientifia Research - Department of Architectural Engineering N2 - Purpose extensive research about informal developments and its transformations of formal developments in Egypt has been carried out throughout the past 3 decades. These informal developments/ transformations may be regarded as people's interventions to adapt to their changing needs. Nevertheless, the scarcity of land and financial challenges, denote the provision of small housing units UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -