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Abstract The Egyptian studies and researches were interested, in the recent years, in the issue of planning rates and design standards in the cities and urban communities in Egypt. This interest was quite natural, in the light of the massive urbanization process allover the country, and the strong orientation towards the establishment of new cities and communities in different parts of the country in order to reduce the housing problems in the whole country and in big cities in particular. Therefore, the study is appropriate to handle the planning rates and design standards for serving the housing communities in Egypt, considering the service facility elements are closely related to housing. Thus, studying the housing service facilities required and their appropriateness to the inhabitants needs and capabilities. That’s to say, analyze these service facilities from the urban design, social and economic aspects, as the service facilities costs are relatively high in proportion with the total cost of all the housing community. On focusing on these aspects few points were observed: |