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Document Type : Article In Conference 
Document Title :
Celebration or Negligence: Two Gestures in Landscaping the Urban Periphery of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
إيماءتين متباينتين في عمارة بيئة محيط المنطقة الحضرية لمدينة جدة - المملكة العربية السعودية
 
Subject : Celebration or Negligence: Two Gestures in Landscaping the Urban Periphery of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 
Document Language : Arabic 
Abstract : The nature of an urban edge registers, I argue, a societal outlook towards urbanity and wilderness and a tendency to cater for human recreational needs. Its form is a function of social and economic changes in the local history of urban development and the consequential regulatory planning measures. Since Jeddah (a major seaport in Saudi Arabia) leaped over its old walls in the 1950s, it has sprawled rapidly to make contact with the prominent features of its natural setting. Jeddah is caught between the foothills of the formidable Sarat Mountains and sterile desert to the east and the more hospitable Red Sea to the west. Both interface zones present prime recreational opportunities. However, the urban morphology of the city and the tissue of its borderline territories do not recognize these assets equally. Two completely different sensibilities have guided the shaping of the middle landscapes which mediate between the densely built-up area of the city and its pre-existing natural contexts. This paper underscores the rationale behind the design treatments of both edges as well as the latter events which compromised those visions, if any. Using historical snapshots and present-condition transects I highlight the differences in land uses, and social and economic roles of these two urban-natural interfaces and the spatial implications thereof. The failure of Jeddahs largely undifferentiated urban fabric at mediating a pleasant meeting between the urbane and the natural will be discussed. I will conclude by suggesting urban landscape design strategies to transform the experience of nature in the city. 
Conference Name : Intern. Federation of Landscape Architects 
Publishing Year : 1424 AH
2003 AD 
Article Type : Article 
Added Date : Sunday, February 21, 2010 

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علي يسلم باعبيدBaobeid, ali yslmInvestigatorDoctorategsfa@hotmail.com

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