The role of urban connectivity in progressing new cities

Year 2023, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 214 - 219, 27.12.2023

Inaam Qassem

Abstract

As a result of social, economic, environmental, and technological changes, the master plans of the existing cities expanded, and new cities were developed within the existing cities to meet the increasing needs of individuals for housing, work, learning, and entertainment, so the urban fabric changed and lost its connection with its surroundings and its existing center, the urban and the environmental areas deteriorated within city plan, buildings were formed with new formal characteristics and an unclear identity that embodied visual pollution, as it is difficult to see the master plan areas as a consistent urban unit; consequently, the research problem was identified by: the lack of a clear cognitive perception of the policies of upgrading the new urban environments, and activating the mechanisms of urban connectivity in them, as a strategy to renew and restore degraded places, and link the new areas with the old historical center spatially and temporally within a unified, coherent and sustainable master plan scheme.
Starting from the principles of urban design and its objectives concerned with creating environments with interconnected places functionally, physically, socially and spatially with the surrounding areas and with all facilities, services, schools and shops as a policy to advance the new cities towards a sustainable perspective; The current research will focus on a description and analysis of some experiences in the field of activating the mechanisms of connectivity between new and existing places as an important strategy in repairing, developing and sustaining degraded places.

Keywords

new cities, patterns of new cities, urban connectivity, upgrading policies, connectivity mechanisms

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