THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE ARAB WORLD ON LOCAL REGIONAL LEVELS – A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE REALITY AND THE SCOPE OF ARAB TOWNS | ||||
| JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences | ||||
| Article 11, Volume 35, No 4, July and August 2007, Page 1023-1039 PDF (1016.55 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesaun.2007.114361 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Saif Abdullah i Ahmed AL-kubat 
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| Prof. of Urban Design Arch. Department Faculty of Engineering, Sana'a University Yemen Republic P.O.Box 14288 Sana'a | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Towns play a major role in the development field; because they are productive places in general as they suitably contribute in the national economical growth. Yet the process of the urban development in itself generally causes a distinct deterioration of the surrounding environmental conditions. As towns are considered places for the population growth as well as for trading and industrial activities, they intensity the consumption of energy, the deterioration of resources and the production of wasteproducts to an extent, which surpasses the endurance of the systems created by the human being and nature together, as well as it confuses the administrative abilities of administrating these systems. The acute state of this situation deteriorates with the rapid growth of the population in towns. These harmful effects or the environmental loses resulting; threaten the continuity of the production of these towns, the health of their population and their kind living. The Arab towns are facing real challenges implemented by increasing urban growth and its effects on changing the social dynamics, that change will create new possibilities for social progress, but it will also increase the greater difficulties all towns face in supplying sufficient infrastructures. The skeleton structure for any town is affected by several factors, political, social, economical, modern technology and the climatic factor, which is very difficult to study its effects by itself, as it is one of the comparatively stable factors all through the passing years and eras compared with the other changing factors, therefore to organizing the skeleton of any town we have to bear in mind modern issues, like the population density, The crowdedness problem, the air movement, transport, other necessities of health, as well the climatic factors. Several of the Arab towns administrations tried to face the new situations through development and modernization, yet the rate of increased construction growth surpassed all the expectations of these plans, which hindered the possibility of planning the suitable future directions of developing the public utilities, civil services, directing the population's activities, the investment movement, which would suit the situations the conditions and the growth constituents in these towns to realize the maximum benefit of its potentials and growth abilities. To overcome such defect most the Arab towns used to adopt plans more flexible, but they generally do not have a comprehensive look or integrating one between these towns and their surroundings, which generally consists of secondary towns or regions connected to these towns, which weakens the role of these towns in achieving the balance and looked for integrating growth on local and regional levels. For a sustainable development it must be balanced in a better way between the rural and urban areas, between little towns, middle and big ones adopting a method of development, whose axis is the human being, The ability of the towns to survive depends on their answering the people's needs through more effective investments in the fields of health, education …etc. This needs the active share of the societies in the urban development, stressing role of women as full partners in the sustainable development. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Sustainable development; Environmental considerations | ||||
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