الفهرس 
The Relationship between Design Of Urban Structure and Achieving Development
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Abstract
Urban Structure design is considered a critical pillar that plays an important role in
shaping the urbanization process. The thesis tries to figure out whether urban structure
impacts the development rates on the national and local scale. Studies and analysis are
carried out on the macro and micro scale to investigate the correlation between
development and urban structure formulation. The thesis is developed to include an
international analysis for countries and cities in Europe and North America representing
the developing countries that achieved high rates of development. from the analysis
results recommendations are developed and applied to reach an urban prototype model
on the neighborhood scale and tested on the city scale. This thesis tried to present a
comprehensive overview and a brief study about the city fabric and its urban structure.
The research started by explaining the meaning of a fabric, its elements and parameters
and the main factors that shape any city structure. The research then summarized the
fabric typologies into two main characters Compact city model and sprawled one. An
approach to reach the urban fabric typology that achieves the best results of
development and sustain the economic growth is the main goal of this research.
Consequently, A deep research was carried out about the meaning of urban economies,
its theories, recommendations as a way to understand what are the forces that boost an
economy or decline the growth in another. It was concluded from the study that there
are two main approaches for agglomerating economies either localization or scale
economies that depend on labor division and specialization in order to achieve mass
production mainly standardized job style, or urbanization economies that rely upon
diversity of uses in a collaborative intellectual working style. A method to translate and
reflect these forces upon a fabric typology that incubate these elements together in a
harmonic way was developed.
The main idea of the proposed model was to achieve a polycentric fabric on the macro
and micro scale. On the macro scale, a poly independent connected neighborhoods
shape the city image whereas the main autonomous unit is a neighborhood. On the
micro scale each neighborhood consists of clusters that are diverse in the residential
typologies, and employment life style. The main approach of designing the
neighborhood unit is to lay upon two main economic bases. The first near the center
which is the administrative diverse intellectual base where the mind of the urban fabric
is situated. As we go away from the center high tech. industries appear where the
creative residents are allocated. Further away, the second economic base start to appear
which is the scale industries that depend upon mass production and high number of
employees. It is worth saying that the sense of ambition is found to motivate residents
to gain high level of education that candidate them to move on and live nearby the center and at the same time it provides the aspect of just not equity between the
different residents categories. High residential typologies are allocated in between the
different connected neighborhood making good use of the spatial area between them to
be luxurious green lung that benefits the whole city as well. Last but not least all
neighborhood are connected through different transportation axes achieving the idea of transit oriented development neighborhood instead of the traditional neighborhood.