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Landscape design studies of Al Shallalat south garden in AlexandriaOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Al Shallalat Gardens are the third-largest parks in Alexandria which are considered as a heritage park. So there is an urgent need to protect these gardens in proper condition. Al Shallalat Gardens were divided into the northern one called El Bahariya and the southern one called El Qebleya section. This study carried out on the southern section of Al Shallalat gardens. AL Shallalat south garden’s total area is 32600 m². Its borders are Abou Quer Street and Watch Square at the north, Omar Toson Street and Alexandria Stadium at the south, Suez Canal tunnel{ AbdelMoneim Riad Tunnel} at the east, and Salah Mostafa street at the west. In this study, we analyzed the location of Al Shallalat south garden in all aspects and making a questionnaire to take the people opinion of Al Shallalat south garden, a historical green space deserted and underutilized despite its central and accessible location in the city, to determine the real reasons for disusing the garden in order to propose a development program capable for pushing the garden to attract people and achieve the best performance. Results of the questionnaire analysis and site observations showed the problems that the garden are suffering from as following: -
1) Lack of public awareness of the importance of the garden as a historical garden.
2) Neglecting the maintenance of historic buildings. 3) Lack of maintenance of plants as well as the hedges are unpleasant and make the garden look divided and smaller.
4) Lack of plant variation, not enough colors and limited to a few types of plants and their repetition, which led to a lack of botanical variety in the garden.
5) Lack of cleanliness and there is much rubbish in the garden
6) Most of the Seats are broken and not enough.
7) The fence is very low in height and incomplete which allows the entrance of the homeless and peoples who don’t respect the laws.
8) Lack of safeness and security.
9) There is no existence of facilities such as bathrooms - restaurants - cafes. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 123
10) Lack of clarity paths and they are unpaved.
11) Lack of night lighting sufficiency, which made it a den of crime.
12) Lack of physical and social activities in the garden.
13) The heights are not being used in a proper way in the garden design.