Tarek Elsyad

Zero Carbon City: Case Study: East District, Alexandria City, Egypt Tarek Elsyad

Many cities around the world are facing the global problems such as the problem of running-out of fossil fuels and their increasing global demand, consequently the future of cities is limited because there is no longer enough energy to run them. It is the gap between the uses of fossil fuels and the exponential rise in the demand of energy which already resulting in the energy insecurity that will be a hallmark of life and in all countries in the next decades. Another one is the emissions of greenhouse gases arising from burning of fossil fuels to generate energy that leads to climate change and global warming. Egypt is one of the countries, in the hot arid region, that face these environmental problems. The work study in the third and fourth parts concentrates on developing of Alexandria city as a platform for a high quality of life where inhabitants can find the carbon footprint is zero. It presents the ways of new innovative strategies in the Mostafa Kamel Residential Shiakhaa, East District which generate energy from renewable resources in addition to waste-to-energy strategy which then runs an engine that generating electricity.