24Sep 2017

THE ROLE OF URBAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN ENHANCING PEOPLE'S OUTDOOR PLACES AND SPACES.

  • Faculty of Islamic Architecture, College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture, Umm Al Qura University, Makah Al Mukarramh, Saudi Arabia.
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The purpose of this paper is to high light the importance of landscape design principles to enhance people's outdoor places and spaces, as a mean to improve overall community urban open spaces environment. In fact, urban open spaces as a recreational facility were not so adequate to respond to the people's desires and needs. Factors, such as culture and climate that influences the people behavior and their use of the environment and these facilities are ignored in contemporary planning and designing of these urban places and spaces. Alien planning and design concepts gave priority to vehicular systems, without enough regards to pedestrian movements within overall urban fabric of city's morphology. Community open spaces, such as neighborhood gardens, parks, mini-vest pocket parks, campus open spaces, and streetscape assumed to be the primary resource for reformation for family members. They have the accessibility advantage for everyday amusement activities. This is more important if we take into consideration the fact that children, ladies, elders and disabled have no easy; or even appropriate direct accessibility to outdoor urban areas. The ultimate goal is to increase the decision makers? awareness and appreciation of the importance of applying landscape design principles in all process of city planning and design. In other words, this paper will investigates the current process of planning and design of some urban outdoor open space in city of Makkah ,Saudi Arabia, and how the landscape design techniques might be incorporated during initial manifests of emergence new people places and spaces urban facilities. However, short notes on THE ROLE OF URBAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN ENHANCING PEOPLE'S OUTDOOR PLACES AND SPACES will be briefly mentioned due to their importance in overall urban fabric of the city components of the holy city of Makkah Al Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia.

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[Talal Hammadi. (2017); THE ROLE OF URBAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN ENHANCING PEOPLE'S OUTDOOR PLACES AND SPACES. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Sep). 1084-1099] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Talal Hassan Hammadi
Umm Al Qura Universityt

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5427      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5427

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