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العنوان
Walkable Green City (WGC) in Mediterranean Countries :
المؤلف
Moussa, Mennat Allah Mostafa Imam.
هيئة الاعداد
باحث / منة الله مصطفى إمام موسى
mennam.imam2015@hotmail.com
مشرف / على فؤاد سعيد احمد بكر
alibakr2000@gmail.com
مشرف / زياد محمد طارق الصياد
zelsayad1@hotmail.com
مناقش / حسن محمد كمال عبد السلام
hasalam2001@yahoo.com
مناقش / حاتم عبد المنعم الطويل
الموضوع
Architecture.
تاريخ النشر
2020.
عدد الصفحات
93 p. :
اللغة
الإنجليزية
الدرجة
الدكتوراه
التخصص
الهندسة المعمارية
تاريخ الإجازة
21/3/2020
مكان الإجازة
جامعة الاسكندريه - كلية الهندسة - الهندسة المعمارية
الفهرس
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Abstract

Walking is a safe, accessible and pleasant mode of transport. It is a measure of how friendly, healthy and livable the countries are. Walkability is considered as an important element in assessing cities to be green. The “Green” term is considered as a special case of “Sustainable development” for cities. It integrates environmental, social and economic considerations into urban development processes. These considerations are must study to understand and develop countries of a special nature such as Mediterranean countries. Mediterranean people, where their cities have narrow streets, difficult to access, with not always easy services, have similar cultures and traditions such as the habit of daily walking. A significant number of daily trips are made by foot. However, the walking environment in Alexandria city is limited, unsafe and inconvenient. Mainly, pedestrians are secondary to vehicles causing transportation congestion, pollution, source depletion and increasing statistics of obesity. Therefore, this dissertation is a chance to find solutions for decreasing the number of vehicles in the streets by converting the short trips into walking tours. It proposes to establish new theoretical basis for walkable green city (WGC) composite indicators to measure the walkability and the greenness in the Mediterranean Countries. The dissertation is an analytical deduction work, starting with the literature review which discusses the walking environment in the Mediterranean region. In addition, analyzing several examples of the previously developed indexes that have been conducted to measure the walkability and Greenness of Mediterranean cities to produce the new basis. The case study was conducted on Ramleh station district in the city center of Alexandria using Geographic Information System program (GIS). The results showed that the study area is not considered as a walkable green district, despite it has many potentials that could be exploited. Briefly, the results help to prove that (WGC) composite indicators are able to measure how walkable and green any Mediterranean country is.