The Population Growing and the Urban Development in Saltanate Omman

The comprehensive and urban development has many of aspects in saltanate Omman, these aspects correspond in growing and developing these cities and in increasing is its size because of the natural growing for population and the coming emigration .

Participatory Urban Planning and Design - Lessons Learnt from Germany for Post-War Urbanism in Syria

This paper deals with participatory decision making and planning processes. It critically looks at methods and tools that are practiced currently in Germany and in particular in the city of Berlin, where the author has close relationship to and hasstudied in depth the Berlin experience made during the past decades. The process of public involvement that started in the 1970ies in Berlin and in the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD) is going to be monitored continiously. Focus is laid on the discourse on whom and how when to involve. Meanwhile the city of Berlin has developed a handbook on public participation that is briefly presented and assessed in this paper. Selected best practice cases where certain tools have been successfully applied in Berlin will be presented and analysed. This paper is meant to enlarge the knowledge about state of the art dicourse on participatory urban planning, design and implementation and gives a brief outlook on replicability of instruments for participatory urban planning and design in the Syrian context.