NATURE IN CITIES:AN APPROACH TO PROMOTE THE SENSE OF BELONGING INURBAN COMMUNITIES

Authors

NAHED HAMAWI Teaching Assistant (PhD Candidate), Faculty of Architecture - Design & Built En, Beirut Arab University, LebanonFollow

Keywords

Space, Urban Community, Sense of Belonging, Natural Cities, Cultural Perception

Disciplines

Architecture | Business | Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences

Abstract

During the second half of the twentieth century, a time that has been noticeable by rapid urbanization of societies, urban environments have become diminished and dysfunctional. Particularly in the practice of forming urban space and in addition, the design of buildings has been allowed to be bloomed, with the lack of both social and environmental responsibility have turned into revolting influences of the plot. With regards to the Urban Environment, sociological consequences will undermine the amenity value of the social environment if the community and the end user are not satisfied by the incompetence to meet the cultural needs. The absence of cultural perception and environmental ethos proposed by the contemporary buildings and urban landscapes, obviously through ignoring the approaching depletion of natural resources. Architects and urban designers should not disregard signs of global stress that are of social and ecological major consequence. Therefore this paper aims to study the urban environment within architecture and urban design. Based on scientific methodology, the paper reviews the contemporary literature of the environmental goals for the new world through analysing current contemporary work and illustrating the environmental elements in shaping the urban landscape. Finally, the one of the important conclusion is that the Humanistic and environmental resource elements should manage innovative powers in architecture and in shaping the urban landscape.

Recommended Citation

HAMAWI, NAHED Teaching Assistant (PhD Candidate), Faculty of Architecture - Design & Built En (2018) "NATURE IN CITIES:AN APPROACH TO PROMOTE THE SENSE OF BELONGING INURBAN COMMUNITIES," BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing: Vol. 1: Iss. 3, Article 27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8288.1079