Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted How Can we Enhance the Social Connection in Mayfield by Engaging With the River and Doing Exciting Activities Around it?(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-06-01) Albaity, Shadi Mohammed; Atelier, FluxThe Research outcome Develop the social connection between the residents from different backgrounds and connect the area to the Manchester city center to be an active part of the city by developing the relationship and accessibility of sustainability approaches. Take advantage of Mayfield Park as an attractive point and center of connection to the town. Make a more substantial connection by resolving the unused areas around the River to enhance openness from the city center to Mayfield by taking the opportunities and attractivity of Medock River. Also; Enhance the nightlife and feeling of safety in the regions by bringing different kinds of activities that aim for different purposes in the short term and long term for social connection and enriching the cultural activities like music; painting; dancing, reading, and discussion, and gathering during daytime and night. Using temporality of Architecture in terms of Space, Time, and User in different schemes and situations to have many other activities in different times and places as well as users. Engaging with the River and Coffee together in the short term for starting the invitation to the area: The River is isolated from the community in many ways; first, it is hidden by trees in most areas around Mayfield; also, it is hidden from the streets by tall walls that prevent the eyes from seeing the River. Also, it is not well lighted at night, so it is mainly neglected. Secondly, there is a significant difference between the River and the Lands around it, which need to be treated to be accessible for the community, as the people in Mayfield haven't engaged with the River and missing opportunities to have coffee and enjoy the sense of water and taste of the coffee in the same time; and relaxing with coffee in front of the beautiful visual mind of the River. Making a new atmosphere around the River for the long term: Green areas and trees are interesting natural elements integrated with the River and make it an attraction for the Mayfield community; also, this gives a chance to develop new buildings and activities around the River to enhance the social connection in the area by making new Public – Semi-Public spaces for different users in different times. The new sites engaged with the River and took advantage of it in viewing and making social activities and engagement with water. However; restoring and developing the Mayfield Bath will achieve these goals perfectly as the area need this kind of development for enhancing social connection. We achieving this goal by proposing a Bathhouse in Studio 2-3 to make such kind of engagement. Use the River as Connection: Interesting experience to make a journey by using the River as a medium for transportation between the existing sites of Mayfield. This creates an exciting adventure in the area and facilitates the encouragement of social connection in Mayfield. Also, develop the link above the rivers and make it easy for the community to reach them. As there is a barrier resulting from the railway we still connect the people in Mayfield by letting them play with the water after cleansing it naturally within the bathhouse. Celebrate with the River: Do activities with it, like, playing and enjoying the water around the River. Also, increase the eye connection between the areas around the River to feel and enjoy the water's sense, sound, and outlook. Making additional values by lighting arts and technology will enhance the happiness and nightlife of River and make it an attraction for the community to socialize around it. We propose to make a Pavilion to achieve this.38 0Item Restricted Cities and socio-technical transitions: An evaluation of the use of the multi-level perspective for examining the green economy transition in Makkah City, Saudi Arabia(2023-07-06) Alameer, Ali; Farrelly, Lorraine; Dixon, TimThe green economy has been widely advocated by global policy frameworks as a promising concept for accelerating urban sustainability. Its applications and practices have been spatially connected to cities due to their roles and functions as hubs of people, resources, knowledge, and economic activity. This distinction for cities emphasises the importance of examining how cities can accelerate the transition to the green economy by clarifying what influences and inhibits change toward this goal, and what the interrelationship between the city contextual setting and the green economy applications might look and feel like. Thus, the quest to implement this change also needs to analyse and understand the city's physical and functional features as well as its broader socio-technical networks. However, in practice there is a huge gap between real-world practises and contemporary transition research analytical frameworks, which are dominated by ‘acontextual’ approaches and thus fail to represent cities' real-world spatial, functional, and physical challenges. Whilst the multi-level perspective (MLP) provides a useful framework for understanding socio-technical transitions, it falls far short as a means of providing a contextual approach for urban transitions. To address this, in this thesis a modified analytical framework that placed spatial dimensions that shape and influence cities at the heart of MLP was developed for better understanding real-world challenges. Based on an analysis of twenty-six (26) interviews, three (3) focus groups, and secondary sources, this framework is tested using Makkah city as a case study for empirical examination of the nature and characteristics of the national KSA green economy transition, thereby generating valuable insights and evidence that reflect the complexity and fragmented nature of urban transitions. Four overarching dimensions have been identified that affect and shape the city's spatial context and strengths its role in the MLP and socio-technical transitions: (i) city functions and activities, (ii) city spatial and physical features, (iii) local government arrangements, and (iv) local economic structures. This novel MLP spatial technique combined top-down and bottom-up spatial analysis approaches that helped find spatial variability in transition pathways and provided better understanding of how new networks, fluxes, and activities drive developing niches. Additionally, the MLP's analytical framework moves from a descriptive study of the transition to pragmatic, practice-led spatial analysis that better explains city progress, disparities, successes and failures in urban systems reconfiguration as well as change in the built environment. This spatial MLP framework empirically shows that the original three MLP lenses, though useful, cannot provide a complete, detailed, and clear picture of social and technical urban transitions in the real city context and that explicitly including spatial dimensions analysis was a crucial step to understanding and interpreting functional and physical spatial forces and their impact on the city's socio-technical transition to sustainability. However, the findings suggest that unless the city’s existing multi-segmented regimes that drive urban action are re-configured in line with systematic and long-term characteristics of a green economic transition, then progress will be slow and may be limited. It further suggests that top-down ‘green innovation’ and bottom-up ‘project-based approach’ alone will not be enough to accelerate the green economic transition. Thus, future research and policies should focus intensively on destabilizing and unifying the city's existing fragmented regimes, including the integration, replication and expansion of successful experimental initiatives. Furthermore, consistency in both policy and practice is needed across scales and levels. To this end, there is a need for indicators or assessment tools, new business models, capacity buildings and better-integrated leadership at the city level.15 0