A review of advanced industrial technology as an approach to developing industrial desert communities in arid countries of the Middle East is offered. Appropriateness of the new approach for the development of the physical and the social environments of these countries on the na…
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The physical changes brought about by the recent developments in the Muslim cities have been achieved at considerable cost to the quality of its social cohesion and spatial organization. Its architectural style and urban patterns are becoming mere copies of perhaps the worst ele…
This thesis is a report of a study of some aspects of the architecture and urban planning of the M’zab Valley communities of southern Algeria, North Africa. The interrelation of physical planning and religious/social structures of the communities of the M’zab Valley are explored…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Fourth Economic Development Plan, 1985-1990, proposed to replace foreign workers with Saudis. This study describes the population and labor force in Riyadh in 1986, estimates the wage differences by nationality after controlling for other variables,…
Since the discovery of oil about a half century ago, industrial development in Saudi Arabia has been concentrated in the three major urban centers of Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam. With the exception of the two cities of Jubail and Yanbu where basic petrochemical industries are bei…
This study documents a performed research on transportation trip (traffic) assignment procedures as well as on techniques of aggregation applied to urban transportation networks. It should be seen as a contribution to the analysis and research on assignment and aggregation princ…
In order to serve the Muslim community, the Ottomans built nuclei which included educational and social services around the mosque. A nucleus of these was called a 'kulliye'. Facilities in kulliyes can be categorized under four main areas: religious, educational, social, and pri…
The existence of regional inequality is a problem shared by most developing countries. While some degree of regional inequality in development is inevitable, its persistence and increase in magnitude has been recognized as a major obstacle in the achievement of significant devel…
It is important to study pedestrian behavior related to safety because as a road user group they are vulnerable in accidents. The main goal of this research is to study pedestrian behavior and based upon the findings to recommend ways for improving pedestrian safety. The behavio…
The end of World War II led to the progressive formation of nations and states in Southeast Asia as their peoples disengaged from former Western and Eastern colonizers. Geographical boundaries and historical narratives were redrawn and created as indigenous groups in the various…
In this dissertation, my primary aims are threefold: to contribute to the anthropological and regional studies' discussion about the Arabian-Persian Gulf region; to investigate the concrete manifestations of what Mike Davis (1992) has called "the sociology of the boom"; and to d…
The aim of this thesis is to critically examine the contribution of nongovemmental organizations (NGOs), or, more accurately, advocacy NGOs, to the mediation of the conflicting relationships between the State of Israel and the Negev Bedouin, one of the most underprivileged minor…
This study investigated Arab American immigrants' use of the Arabic satellite channels in light of a uses and gratifications model. The study investigated reasons people use satellite broadcasting and explored differences between viewers and non-viewers of this new medium across…
Beirut as a war torn city is going through a critical transformation and being stretched between two extremes: The Western/Mediterranean and The Arabian/Middle Eastern cultures presenting itself through multilayer of civilizations through history. It becomes necessary to underst…
This dissertation analyzes the efforts since the mid-1980s to regenerate Istanbul's centrally located waterfront area on the Golden Horn, in Turkish Haliç. More specifically, it investigates this transition by focusing on the key actors involved and their power dynamics in the p…
There is a considerable body of work which describes the process of developing new communities both in the United States and abroad. These have generally taken the form of case studies, which have micro scale orientation and are descriptive and focus directly on the process of d…
This dissertation illustrates that the concept of "brownfield" in defining and organizing the discourse on contaminated land is a social construction of Western origin, e.g., in the rapidly-industrialized economies of North America and Western Europe, that serves to focus the un…
Geospatial data is an essential component of various activities in local communities and government agencies. The efficiency of planning and decision-making processes in many government activities are based on the availability of geospatial data. This data need to be easily and …