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Arterial street as a place : an urban code for livability in Saudi Arabia
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The arterial street is considered the backbone and structuring element of an urban area. As a linear structure, this typology of street is understood both as the main mobility axis and as a place that stimulates urban vitality and provides the desired setting for everyday urban life. This research addresses how arterial streets, often exclusively seen as vehicle movement routes, can enhance public life and improve livability. Saudi Arabia’s 2030 Vision prioritizes people, their quality of life, and the social impact of the built environment. Rapid urban, social, and economic changes have shaped Saudi cities, especially since the 1970’s oil boom, impacting both the physical structure of cities and public life, leading to a decline in the significance of streets as interactive spaces. Amidst these transformative changes, redesigning arterial streets is seen as an opportunity to improve the quality of life. In addition to supporting the urban structure and connecting its parts, it can foster a more cohesive and integrated social interaction. In this regard, this study’s main objective is to build an urban code for arterial streets that enables the support of livability. The urban code is formulated by a process of reading, interpreting, and decoding the formal characteristics of eight international reference cases of livable arterial streets, and two local arterial streets. The decoding process was based on an interdisciplinary, multiscale approach that instrumentally combines morphological interpretation and public life studies to read, decode, and code their physical qualities. Based on the extracted morphological qualities that support livability, the urban code systematizes typological variants, expressed through abstract representations, reducing the street composition to its essential formal characteristics in three scales.
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Tese de doutoramento. Urbanismo. Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura. 2024.
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rua morfologia urbana vida pública código urbano habitabilidade street urban morphology public life urban code livability
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AL MUSHAYT, Nawaf Saeed - Arterial street as a place : an urban code for livability in Saudi Arabia. - Lisboa : FA, 2024. - Tese de doutoramento.
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Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura