Cairo is a sprawling megacity that has a strikingly fragmented socio-spatial pattern,manifested in a dichotomy of spatial concentrations of urban poverty in informal areas onone hand, and high-level income groups in upscale gated Communities on the other. Thepaper inspects the diverse facets of this socio-spatial division, in an attempt to outlinegeneral policies that can curtail unconstructive influences of urban fragmentation, byenhancing positive aspects and diminishing negative impacts of both gated communities andinformal areas. Proposed policy intervention would prohibit further future division, andfoster adjusting measures to amalgamate Cairo on principles of cohesion, integration andbalance of its socio-spatial structure; a goal emphasized by the Egyptian 25 January 2011revolution which envisions a makeover towards a more equitable society.