LANDSCAPE DESIGN AS A TOOL TO ENHANCE RESIDENTIAL SPACES AND PLACES IN SAUDI ARABIAN CITY URBAN FABRIC.
- Associate professor of Landscape Architecture, (Ph.D., MLA), Faculty of Islamic Architecture, College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Al Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia.
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The environment of residential area has a closed relationship with peoples' pattern of the daily life. It is not only an important place of social activities, but also an important constituent in urban setting. Along with the development of society and economy, the residential landscape is also changing. However, in the course of development, many problems have appeared. These issues have had negative effect on the quality of landscape and seriously stuck the development of residential landscape design for the future. In this paper, urban residential landscape was selected as the research focus, to suggest some operational solutions for the current problems that associated with design of urban residential space and places. The ultimate aims of this paper are to get some motivation about how landscape design might enhance and develop urban residential spaces and places, and also as a mean to avoid the redundant mistakes in future. Finally, some landscape design principal approaches had come up for a melioration of urban residential landscape.
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[Talal Hammadi. (2017); LANDSCAPE DESIGN AS A TOOL TO ENHANCE RESIDENTIAL SPACES AND PLACES IN SAUDI ARABIAN CITY URBAN FABRIC. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Sep). 1100-1114] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
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