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Abstract
The old forty years’ experience of establishing new urban communities within the Egyptian desert is ongoing with a limited success in achieving sustainable development goals. So, it was necessary to conduct a continuous and accurate assessment of cities to meet the challenges of urban development and management. However, city managers and planners often have difficulties to make appropriate and detailed assessments of the conditions of sustainable urban development, and challenges posed by elements of urban design. And the necessity of urban carrying capacity assessments has drawn increasing attention at the international level. So, the thesis approach is to focus on the urban carrying capacity concept as an important barometer of sustainable urban development. And the main thesis’s aim is to develop a local and systematic and practical assessment framework according to the urban carrying capacity (UCC), highlighting the deficiencies in different sectors of the city to maintain ecological balance and guide urban development towards achieving sustainability in urban design. Throughout a set of assessment procedures to models of the new Egyptian cities” Tenth of Ramadan - New Cairo - New Alamein”, which belong to different generations. As a way to provide a powerful tool for planners and city managers to make rational decisions when allocating investment and local resources across different sectors to achieve urban sustainability. the final result is to introduce a number of recommendations for General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP).