TITLE:
Managing the Urban Environment of Casablanca, Morocco
AUTHORS:
David J. Edelman
KEYWORDS:
Urban Environmental Management, UEM, City and Regional Planning
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.11 No.1,
March
14,
2023
ABSTRACT: This article brings the contemporary thinking and practice of Urban
Environmental Management (UEM) to the solution of current and persistent environmental
problems in Casablanca, Morocco. Casablanca is the largest city of Morocco and
the country’s economic and business center. Located on the Atlantic coast of
the Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a
population of about 3.71 million in the urban area and 4.27 million in Greater Casablanca, making it the most populous city
in the Magreb region of North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria), and the eighth largest city in the entire Arab world. It is also a polluted metropolis
with serious urban problems related to its environmental issues. The article
first considers the context of Casablanca, and then reviews issues of poverty
alleviation, industry, energy, transportation, wastewater and solid waste,
water and finance. Finally, it proposes a 5-year plan to help alleviate the
city’s urban environmental problems utilizing a real world Database and a
limited budget.