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CITIES
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2019.102409
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Urban public space; Modernist planning approach; Urban transformation; Proactive urban design; Jeddah; Saudi Arabia
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- Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah [137-002-D1433]
- DSR
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Urban planning, design guidelines and new management practices have radically transformed public spaces in many countries. With fresh development decisions, urban spaces change spatially. This may improve places, increasing prosperity and extending expectations of modernization in many cities. However, widespread public disillusion and failures to produce environments reflecting local values can collectively shape public areas. This article contributes to debate about dynamism in such spaces. It explores how modernist approaches to planning and design alongside fractures in management practices in emerging cities have shaped the quality urban space. We use Jeddah as a radically re-planned city in a rapidly developing economy, but one where largely unusable public spaces have failed to meet people's everyday needs and aspirations. Our investigation based on extensive literature reviews, documentary analyses, morphological survey, photographic and qualitative surveys provides a better understanding of the role of a proactive urban design for promoting environmental quality. This helps resolve the multiple challenges confronting public space provision.
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