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The dynamics of informal urbanisation, rapid population growth, lack of urban planning framework, arbitrary housing policies, and absence of land governance were among the causes that led into the appearance of an emerging urbanism in Egypt, known as ashwaayat, or indiscriminate forms of urbanity. Based on two case studies located in two Egyptian cities; Cairo, and Alexandria, this article explores two folds. One is ashwaiyyat results from exclusionary pattern of urban development, and land governance, by which has been informally locked it into (in)visible urban enclaves within the built environment. Another highlights the rights of everyone to own property, have a fundamental importance in the urban poor own right. The results found have been widely disseminated and diverged according to the history of land reform, types of land ownership, security of tenure, and to the ways land being developed. Egypt has to adopt a proper land governance that supports what people do, what people are willing to do, what people are able to do, how the law is perceived by people, to regulate the collective resources by which enabling a practical and logical land governance system, rather than systems so unfeasible that leave most of land in ashwaiyyat unregulated