BOTTOM SQUATTED SETTLEMENTS VS. TOP GATED COMMUNITIES:A NEW DIRECTION OF SOCIAL SEGREGATION IN SANA'A CITY | ||||
| JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences | ||||
| Article 15, Volume 39, No 5, September and October 2011, Page 1157-1174 PDF (1.97 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesaun.2011.129395 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Abdullah Al-Abed | ||||
| Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Sana'a University, YEMEN | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Since 1960’s the phenomenon of urban social segregation has been developed in Sana'a city in three consecutive zones. These are the indigenous, transitional and spontaneous zones. The architecture of the indigenous zone was not used as a means to express wealth and status of the inhabitants. The trend in the transitional zone was ‘softly segregated’. To examine the new direction of social segregation between bottom squatted settlements and top gated communities in the fringe "spontaneous zones" of Sana'a city, this study adopted an investigatory approach and utilised multiple qualitative methods. Evidence in this paper reveals that social segregation between the well-off in gated communities and concentrated poverty in squatted settlements is blurred in the peripheral zone of the case study city. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| gated communities; squatted settlements; social segregation; Sana'a; Yemen | ||||
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