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Abstract
Informal rapid urbanization, rapid population growth, and arbitrary urban expansion have dominated the urban fabric of cities of the Global South. These socio-spatial transitions resulted in many urban challenges; deterioration of the built environment; social exclusion; increased level of poverty; degeneration of biodiversity; and destruction of the natural resources. In 2015 and 2016, the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (UNHabitat 2018) addressed these challenges and called for “just transitions for all”. These two declarations represent universally approved policy visions that signal a paradigm shift: from a ”top-down” approach of a set, international mandates to a ”bottom-up”, country-driven implementation process. Recently, planning innovation of urban sustainability transitions (Koehler, et al. 2017) has taken place as a new planning approach for confronting the emergence of urban challenges that are facing the planet. The transitions research is the recognition that many environmental problems, such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, resource depletion, spreading of urban informality, and many others are urban challenges problems. Such analyses are essential to increase policy coherence of plans and strategies and to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of the two agendas.The spatial configuration of spontaneous growth in cities of the Global South is very rarely touched. This study aims to fill this gap. It provides a local analysis of the arbitrary urban expansion that explores how the transformation of the urban fabric contained in Alexandria city, Egypt, connects and interrelates to the SDGs and urban sustainability transitions. It explores the understanding of the transformation of the urban fabric through the transitions of the socioeconomic, and political dynamics that face Alexandria city during the last six decades.Governance and sustainability transitions as system transitions are a fundamental change in the way societal functions are fulfilled, entailing changes in the production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services that accelerate or decline the new urban expansion.The study builds on the findings of the sociotechnical approach, demonstrates that Multi- Level perspective to various extents foster synergies with the national development priorities that reflect the 2030 Agenda. This study is structured as follows; chapter one outlines the structure of the research, followed by chapter two that reviews socioeconomic transitions, spatial transitions, and urban expansion in the global south and in Egypt. While chapter three examines urban sustainability transitions and urban expansion’s debates. These two chapters cover the theoretical background of the subject area of the research to be a basis for the empirical part that follows. Chapter four reviews the development of the city of Alexandria over history to gain the main potentials that accelerated the urban expansion process. Chapter five sketches three scenarios as a possible paradigm on governance sustainable transitions on urban land expansion in Alexandria. At the end of the research, appendix, highlights the planning technique used throughout the study.A short conclusion closes the study and tries to highlight the linkage between theory and practice in urban land expansion that have tended to smooth over this kind of transitions in favor of concepts and practices which are place-blind and held to be valid in Egypt.