Making Healthy place As Contemporary Urban Trend

Fawzi Abbawi, Rawaa; Abdul-Kareem, Baneen

doi:10.30684/etj.34.14A.1

	Making Healthy place As Contemporary Urban Trend
Engineering and Technology Journal
Article 1, Volume 34, 14A, 2016, Pages 566-586 PDF (1.6 M)
DOI: 10.30684/etj.34.14A.1
Authors
Rawaa Fawzi Abbawi; Baneen Abdul-Kareem
Abstract
The world experienced an increasing interest in the concept of place-making in accordance with the contemporary urban trends. The healthy trend was considered as the trend that combines most of the other trends properties. It represents a response to the challenges facing the society. These are environmental, economic, social, cultural, Urban and security. Most states and world countries focus on making a sustainable healthy place, achieving the dwelt desires and considered as a container for all human activities ; social, recreational, economic and cultural. Local places continue suffer from neglect, extinction, random design and the lack of clarity of policy handled according to the contemporary healthy urban trend. To stand out the problem of the research thoroughly (Lack of comprehensive knowledge study describes the most important dimensions and features that contribute to the making of the healthy place within cities) and to address this research problem, a comprehensive knowledge framework was built relying on vocabulary extracted from the theoretical framework in the analysis of a number of global urban cities. It includes a range of healthy places designed according to this trend. After reviewing a number of global studies, researches and experiments, it appeared that there are certain dimensions and features for making a healthy place. Then, some dimensions and features were neutralized. The environmental dimensions and features of the open spaces were chosen because they are more important, effective and influential than the rest of the dimensions and features. After analyzing the results it appeared that the environmental dimension contributes in making a healthy place, achieve health, well-being and sustainability for the population. The open space features had a great role in making a sustainable healthy place, that supports biological, cultural, social and intellectual diversity, improves the urban landscape of the city as a whole (environmentally and visually), enhances coherence and social interaction between individuals and achieves participation community. Then places will be healthy, social, aesthetic, functional, which Root urban identity of the city in general and the place in particular.
Keywords
place; Making; Healthy place; urban health; Contemporary urban healthy trend; Attributes healthy place; the Dimensions of the healthy place

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