Pub Date : 2022-02-19DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021812540
S. Mazzetto
The oil industry in Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East has generated rapid urban growth and sparked a lively debate over the direction that such growth should take. While the construction of contemporary cities using innovative materials and technologies has been pursued, the need to preserve and maintain the nation's identity, rehabilitate national heritage, and establish new relationships with the local history and culture has also been recognised. This paper examines recently completed adaptive reuse projects and argues for the need to increasingly value local traditions and architecture. Based on data collected using mixed methods, and employing terms derived from reuse proposals, our analysis addresses each project’s environmental, socio- economic, and socio-cultural aspects. Sustainability was identified as one of projects’ common concerns. Broadly considered in terms of unity and harmony, the sustainability of the projects was further analysed in terms of the materials used, respect for the ecosystem, social aspects, and the required investments and costs related to the scale of interventions (urban-architectural). By presenting this assessment of the projects’ innovative practices and overall sustainability, this study aims to promote new solutions for the restoration of architectural heritage in Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-19DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021812614
Ian Fookes
Welcome to the special issue: Saudi Vision 2030 - Habitats for Sustainable Development. Led by Dr Yenny Rahmayati of Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia, this issue presents a range of responses to the ambitious project inspired by Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman: ‘Saudi Vision 2030’. As a guide to diversifying the oil- based economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Vision 2030 encompasses a range of initiatives in all areas of development. These can be understood through three key themes relating to society, the economy, and the nation. In short, Vision 2030 aims to facilitate the creation of a vibrant, thriving, and ambitious kingdom.
欢迎大家关注本期特刊:《沙特2030愿景——可持续发展的栖息地》。本期由沙特阿拉伯苏丹王子大学的Yenny Rahmayati博士领导，对王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼(Mohammad Bin Salman)启发的雄心勃勃的项目“沙特愿景2030”提出了一系列回应。作为沙特阿拉伯王国以石油为基础的经济多元化的指南，《2030年愿景》涵盖了所有发展领域的一系列举措。这些可以通过与社会、经济和国家相关的三个关键主题来理解。简而言之，2030愿景旨在促进建立一个充满活力，繁荣和雄心勃勃的王国。
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Pub Date : 2022-02-19DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021812437
Y. Rahmayati
Situated in the heart of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has played a significant role in the Arab region since the pre-historic and pre-Islamic periods. The discovery of oil in 1938 brought a major transformation to the country, which has since become one of the world’s largest oil producers and exporters. The oil industry boom occurred during the 1970s and 1980s and resulted in the rapid development of the economy. This in turn transformed the country into a modern state; a change that touched all sectors, including the built environment.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-19DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021812557
Amira Abdelrazik Elbortokaly, Noorhan Mustafa Hanafi
City urban visions are an increasing concern all over the world and exceptionally for Saudi cities. Saudi Arabia leaders have just launched the Saudi Vision 2030, which is a bold vision for an ambitious country in 2016. At the same time, planners in major cities tend to diversify their economies, improving quality of life, and repositioning their cities in the global context. Notably, Riyadh city, the capital of KSA expected to be not only a great city for its citizens but also a city that symbolizes Saudi urban aspirations. The research aims at investigating Riyadh's urban vision history since the urban city development accumulates different approaches according to the nature of the visioning process. It has changed from urban development decisions made on a case-by-case principle, with no vision, to decisions derived from a vision based on the strategic planning process of MEDSTAR 2003 (The Metropolitan Development Strategy for Ar-Riyadh Region) to more integrated vision based on the sustainable development process of Saudi Vision 2030. The main research argument is that urban planning paradigms affect intense approaches that cities experience when formulating their urban visions. Using an analytical framework, the paper analyses Saudi Vision 2030 and MEDSTAR vision 2003. The aim is not to compare but to investigate Riyadh's vision history that diversifies from strategic planning-based vision to sustainable development tending to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The framework includes qualitative variables focusing on the process of city vision formulating as the nature of the process, time horizon, and scope of visioning, etc. The research concludes that the nature of the visioning process plays a great role in the vision-formulating process. Especially when it comes to Riyadh city's case since adopting the sustainable development process of Saudi Vision 2030 helps integrating multiple comprehensive development aspects such as (urban, economic, social, etc.) and forms a new mindset of the city's future.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-19DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021812490
Sulaiman M. Almazroua, K. Maniruzzaman
There is a strong connection between public spaces and the quality of residential areas. Public spaces are essential elements for enhancing the livability of a city. However, not all public spaces are successfully playing its role in this case. Using Dammam city, Saudi Arabia as a case study, this paper examines how public spaces can impact the quality of life of its residents. A survey on a sample of residents of eight central districts of the city was conducted to explore their satisfaction with public residential spaces and its impact on their lives. Most respondents are reportedly considering changing residences due to the problems with current neighborhood public spaces. The result of this survey revealed that public residential spaces in central districts of Dammam need improvement to provide a better living environment to its residents. This study proposes some suggestions and recommendations for the relevant authority
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Pub Date : 2022-02-19DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021812572
Arshi Parashar, H. S. Lakra
Launched in 2016 to bring wellbeing to its citizens through the diversification of its economy, Saudi Arabia has gained much appreciation with its Saudi Vision 2030. Among its themes, the vision includes the 'A Vibrant Society' which aims to facilitate happy and fulfilling lives through the development of livable cities. The goal is to have three cities among the top 100 livable cities in the world. Riyadh is the nation’s capital and biggest city. It represents Saudi Arabia as a whole and as such, is a promising candidate to be one of Saudi’s most livable cities. This article argues that the vision for Riyadh should facilitate a ‘vibrant society’ comprised of happy citizens. To further our understanding of ‘happiness’, we focused on the ‘Vision for Riyadh city’ in the ‘Quality of Life Program’, which was developed as part of the ‘Vibrant Society Theme’ under the Saudi Vision 2030. It was compared with design proposals by architecture students from Prince Sultan University for urban spaces in Riyadh made between 2016-2019. Our analysis clarifies the extent to which the students’ vision for the city resonated with the administrative plans for Riyadh. Similarities between the visions reveal that the Saudi Vision 2030 is aligned with the students’ preferences and the views of citizens, while differences indicate the need for a more collaborative approach to developing Riyadh’s city vision; one in which students can play a vital role along with their professors and city administrators to ensure the development of a harmonious and ‘happy’ city.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-19DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021812
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Pub Date : 2022-02-19DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021812458
A. Klingmann
This paper explores the employment of urban and architectural branding strategies within Riyadh's plan to become a globally recognized city. Within this framework, the text examines Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 and its spatial impact on the city's urban environment. The paper discusses how mega-events and urban mega-destinations function as branding, place marketing, and placemaking tools to showcase this vision and promote a "new" Saudi Arabia image. The paper also examines in how far globally established values of culture, leisure, greening, wellbeing, connectivity, and quality-of-life are leveraged in the branding process of Riyadh's mega-destinations to communicate a positive image to a transnational class of metropolitan business travelers and tourists, and an affluent, cosmopolitan Saudi middle class. Deliberating this market-oriented methodology's various implications, the paper concludes with a call for a more participatory and inclusive approach to Saudi Arabia's urban branding process to enhance long-term credibility and identification. To achieve the outlined objectives of this paper, the author employed a combination of qualitative methods that included on-site field research, literature reviews, and conversational interviews with various stakeholders that include representatives of involved architectural and urban planning offices, members of the academic community, and citizens of various professions and age groups
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021811503
G. Palantzas, Dimitrios Nalmpantis
The issue of micromobility has been raised suddenly in recent years and although it includes several transportation modes, in shared or private form, shared e-scooters have become the fastest growing trend. While private e-scooters have been on the market for decades, the phenomenon of the shared e-scooter systems emerged mainly due to the advances of innovative technologies. However, the main question today is how e-scooters could be integrated into the urban environment of cities in terms of environmental, economic, and social performance, especially towards providing better first/last/only-mile connectivity. The answer is not simple because their sustainability in relation to the mobility system is mainly determined by how they are used and what they replace. If an e-scooter trip replaces a motorcycle or a car trip, the environmental and health effects are positive. If it replaces a trip on foot or by bike, the situation gets worse. This paper gives an overview of e-scooters’ use in Mediterranean cities, presents some preliminary results of a relevant ongoing quantitative survey in Greece, and offers a discussion on available data, challenges, and perspectives. The rides of shared e-scooters in several Mediterranean cities have overcome the one (1) million in just 10-12 months after their availability, while private e-scooter market shows also a growing demand. Given that this new mode of transport is still in its infancy, in this paper we examine the first indications in regard to its necessity, attractiveness, safety, cost, people’s attitudes, and integration into the urban environment focusing on Mediterranean cities.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.53910/26531313-e2021811562
Á. Aparicio
This paper explores the difficulties of properly developing the social dimension of the sustainable mobility paradigm in urban mobility. It analyses the experience and results of one of the threes implementing actions funded by the CIVITAS initiative in the 2016-2020 period: the ECCENTRIC project implemented in 5 cities, including Madrid. As in the other participating cities, in Madrid most of the planned measures were successfully implemented and achieved their self-defined sustainability targets. However. the project struggled to address the social challenges in its living labs. This experience suggests that innovation in urban mobility may be responding more to the expectations of European “mobile elites” than to bridging the growing social gap in cities. It also sends a strong message to benefit more from the social potential of sustainable mobility measures, by embedding them within wider social and urban regeneration strategies. Finally, it calls for a social turn in the EU urban mobility initiatives to better address the social dimension of sustainability in future.
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