The actual effect of unplanned transition of rural environment with its different
components towards urban areas had played a big role in giving the gray tincture on the
housing reality of Syrian cities in general, which in turn released a problem
that faced
planners to solve as one of the most important priorities through concentrating on the
possibility of selective elevating of positive specifications of the rural environment as a
large effect contributing factor in solving the housing problem through suggesting a group
of helping solutions by implementing them as a developing type with a rural quality in
actual stopping of housing problem.
The popular participation is one of the main pillars of the local development process,
as it allows the opportunity for various community groups to contribute to the preparation,
management and implementation of development plans in line with their
needs and
aspirations, and it has a positive role in making success of development projects in a
sustainable manner, so as to ensure the achievement of the comprehensive national
development objectives. A real and effective participation requires adoption of sustainable
enablement principle to build the public capacity, and to devote the human potential and
efforts of local communities.
In this context, the research presents a study of the concept of popular participation
and its importance in local development, and it identifies the methods and levels of
participation in the development process, its conditions, requirements and principles, as
classifies levels and forms of popular participation during the phases of local development;
in addition to presenting challenges of the participation in the local development processes.
The research deals with an analysis of one of global experiences that applies sustainable
enablement principle, to enhance the contribution of the community in achieving
sustainable development of the local urban environment, in order to conclude the most
important phases and criteria for sustainable enablement.
The research concludes to a number of conclusions and recommendations aspires to
promote the important role of public participation in local development, by creating
mechanisms which could be used to activate participation at the level of
local administrative units, and exploring the practical application way for enabling
communities in all stages of the local development process, in order to provide different
domains for popular participation in most important development issues.
The modern techniques of the information systems are considered as one of the most
important tools, that most institutions, bodies and organizations working in the areas of
planning and future development are seeking to use as effective analytical
and technical
tools for collecting and analyzing the vast amount of spatial and descriptive information
and the data of the human and natural phenomena, for both planners or decision-makers, at
the various stages of the planning process to cope with the urgent urban problems in
addition to supporting the completion of development plans in record time and high
quality, and reduce waste in energies and resources.
In this context, the research displays the advanced analytical techniques and tool, and
their role in whole planning processes, and identifies the methods of application of GIS
systems as the most efficient and widely used system in the fields of urban planning and
land use, and in developmental decisions support. Also, the research presents a practical
model for the distribution of tasks within the departments and institutions involved in the
planning, to introduce the information systems in their work, and highlights the most
important obstacles that may face the use of those systems.
The study comes up with a number of conclusions and recommendations for the
potential application of advanced techniques and avoiding obstacles, which directly
contribute to raising the efficiency and effectiveness of planning processes, and
improving the planning process management.
The surrounding urban environment doesn't only affect the human behavior, but also
affect his character, behavior and his physical and psychological status, and thus his
feelings of comfort, happiness, relaxation and satisfaction, or his sense of f
eeling
uncomfortable, exhaustion and fatigue; the most important thing that the human pursues is
to meet his vital, physiological and psychological requirements through Architecture and
Urbanism, and in as much as he gets his basic requirements, he would be capable of being
effective to promote urban development.
Generally, most of the urban planning and design processes rely in their solutions for
the urban spaces issues on the development of the built (physical) environment, neglecting
the moral aspect, which is presented in the humanistic behavior of users. As a result, this
negatively affects the efficiency of the urban space in performing its social, environmental,
cultural and economic functions, in addition to the direct impact on the functions and
aesthetics of the built environment.
This research discusses the interaction between the residents and the urban
environment in which they live. It aims at ensuring and analyzing the role of the urban
planner in organizing the urban-human interaction on the mental contact level for this
interaction. The research consists of three main parts; the first part deals with the analysis
of the main components of the interaction between human and environment, and the
various results of this interaction, the second part discusses the concept of kinetic clarity,
as one of those determinant factors, based on clear mental impression and oriented actual
movement in the surrounding environment. The third part, however, ends with analyzing
the planning factors that affect the kinetic clarity, based on the spatial organization of
urban environment, and on the environmental communication.
The research comes up with selecting the suitable designing determinants to set a
clear kinetic system for the urban fabric, either on the city level, or its various spaces level,
through a group of recommendations, related to the mythologies of the interlink between
the physical environment and the humanistic behavior in both urban designing and
planning processes, to improving the residents psychological status.
