A Methodology to Enhance the Quality of Urban Life in New Urban Settlements Case Study: New Damietta City, Egypt

The Egypt Vision 2050 aims to raise the quality of life standards to become one of the best 30 countries in the world instead of the current ranking 69th of the 100 countries in 2021: Increasing the area of green space, attempting to establish new urban communities and cities in the empty land, doubling the size of the residential areas, and increasing the commercial, industrial, educational, and recreational activities. Therefore, the research aims to measure the quality of urban life as a vital demand for human existence in one of the new cities in Egypt, New Damietta city, provided that it is one of the new residential areas that belongs to the new generations of Egyptian cities, and has a clearly completed strategic plan, which did not achieve the planned population objectives, with the appearance of some shortcomings in its urban environment. In this context, the researchers utilized a set of evaluation criteria to investigate the current state of New Damietta neighbourhoods. The criteria are based on an evaluation index proposed by the AARP Public Policy Institute in the United States. In this context, several tools have been used by the researchers to proceed with the evaluation process. These tools are the analytical hierarchy process, SPSS software, and fuzzy logic technique. The results obtained by this research showed that the QOUL in New Damietta City needs to initialize annual surveys to evaluate the level of residents' satisfaction with the city of New Damietta and take residents' suggestions to help achieve the quality of urban life from their point of view.