Termez state university foreign philology faculty foreign philology and literature

Scope of research and objectives
This research intends to establish the concept of a healthy environment for the future “the fourth and fifth generation of slum dwellers''. It integrates the concept of sustainability, as an angle to solve the issues of deteriorated physical and non-physical form of slum condition areas. It does not mean to analyse the regulations or the organization of land tuner. This research aims to tackle the principle of sustainability as a way to obtain quality and efficiency in Informal Settlements for both life and physical form, by achieving the next objectives:
a. Introducing the problem of Informal Settlements.
b. Categorizing the different typologies of informal areas in Egypt.
c. Defining the economic, social and environmental challenges that face interventions and policies that took place in Informal Settlements.
d. Demonstrating how far could Informal Settlements become eco-friendly, self-sufficient and how can they contribute in lessening the burden on local governments.
The research is divided into two sections; section one is a literature review on Informal Settlements and section two presents a case study of an Informal Settlement in Alexandria called “Houd 10”.
Defining Informal Settlements
The World Urban Forum established by the United Nations in 2001 ascribed the program “Cities without Slums” using the term slum to describe “a wide range of low income settlements and/or poor human living conditions”  . Since that time, global concern about slums and their residents were generated and the following policy measures took place; UN charter on the right to housing, universal declaration of human rights, UN-HABITAT standards of a slum household, Agenda 21, chapter 7 and the Millennium Development Goals, Goal 7/Target 11  .
Squatting is the term used to describe Non-legal or Informal occupation of buildings or land. The UNCHS defines this indicator as follows: “housing tenure refers to the rights of households over the housing and land they occupy, particularly rights over land”. This includes “households in squatter housing or housing which has no title to the land on which it stands, and who pay no rents as well as households in squatter housing that pay rent  .
Due to the absence of an adequate formal response to the growth of housing demands, Informal Settlements is the logical response. This phenomenon can be linked to a series of factors including the transition from colonialism, the increase in urban poverty and the impacts of structural adjustment and other neo-liberal programs on formal welfare for the poor  .
Informal Settlements refer to a wide range of residential areas formed of communities housed in self-constructed shelters that are perceived as informal on the basis of their legal status, their physical conditions or both  . The General Organization of Physical Planning in Egypt (GOPP) in 2006 defined Informal Settlements as; “All areas that have been developed by individual efforts, whether single or multi-story buildings or shacks, in the absence of law and has not been physically planned. They have been developed on lands that are not assigned in the city’s master plan for building housing. The buildings’ conditions might be good; however they might be environmentally or socially unsafe and lack the basic services and utilities”  .