A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Urban streets : towards sustainable mobility in Arabic cities
The main objective of this research is to identify approaches to win the streets back for the people, reduce transportation impacts, create civilized streets that respond to worldly design standards of safety, comfort and design sustainability, but above all, such, that are compatible with the unique urban structure and culture of Arabic cities. This study argues that a context–sensitive and culturally responsible urban street design is needed and that past experiences in borrowing foreign solutions for the urban problems of Arab Muslim countries have been invariably unsuccessful because they were merely blindly copied instead of being adapted to suit the new local urban culture, preserve and revitalize its essential characteristics and make use of available opportunities.
Urban streets : towards sustainable mobility in Arabic cities
The main objective of this research is to identify approaches to win the streets back for the people, reduce transportation impacts, create civilized streets that respond to worldly design standards of safety, comfort and design sustainability, but above all, such, that are compatible with the unique urban structure and culture of Arabic cities. This study argues that a context–sensitive and culturally responsible urban street design is needed and that past experiences in borrowing foreign solutions for the urban problems of Arab Muslim countries have been invariably unsuccessful because they were merely blindly copied instead of being adapted to suit the new local urban culture, preserve and revitalize its essential characteristics and make use of available opportunities.
Urban streets : towards sustainable mobility in Arabic cities
Straßen und Urbanität : Perspektiven für eine nachhaltige Mobilität in arabischen Städten
Jaber, Sylvia (author) / Universität Stuttgart (host institution)
2013
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