Planning Arabic Towns
Urban form and settlement patterns have changed dramatically in Saudi Arabia as a result of increased wealth and a shift to an urban services-based economy. Traditional Saudi urban form reflected climatic and social-religious constraints. Recent developments have followed Western urban forms that la...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Geographical review 1986-04, Vol.76 (2), p.160-172 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Urban form and settlement patterns have changed dramatically in Saudi Arabia as a result of increased wealth and a shift to an urban services-based economy. Traditional Saudi urban form reflected climatic and social-religious constraints. Recent developments have followed Western urban forms that largely ignore tradition. The gemeinschaft-gesellschaft model is proposed as an approach to unite traditional and recent urban forms into a coherent physical settlement. |
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ISSN: | 0016-7428 1931-0846 |
DOI: | 10.2307/214622 |