“A city exists for the sake of a good life – not for the sake of life only” –Aristotle
My name is Aisha Ali and I think that urban design is about connecting people together to improve their lives, and create beautiful spaces.
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“A City is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims” -Leon Krier
My name is Amal Saleh and I think that urban design is about building for the future through the community and the environment for a better quality of life.
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“Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true”. -Lester Robert Bittel
Hi, My name is Reem, I am a third year architectural student. I always looked at how the city of Doha was planned, and how there were many empty spots nearby. I took this course to know more about urban planning and design in order to plan a more efficient urban fabric for the city of Doha in the future.
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“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one”. -Aristotle
My name is Abida khan, i believe that urban design is about giving the place its value and creating a valuable public space.
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“Economics, urban planning, ecology are only the means. Happiness is the goal. – Enrique Penalosa”
My name is Rand Faris I’m third year architectural student. I think urban design and planning is Urban design is about making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric. Urban design draws together the many strands of place-making, environmental stewardship, social equity and economic viability into the creation of places with distinct beauty and identity.
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“The building of cities is one of man’s greatest achievements.” -Edmund Bacon
My name is Fatma Ahmed and I think that urban design is the art of creating and shaping cities with a sense of integration between people and places which makes life better for all!
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Al-salamu Alaykum, my name is Noor M. Salame, in some peoples opinion Urban planning is a technical and political process which is concerned with the use of land; but on the other hand urban planning is a long designing process that conceders many aspects in city/country. Urban planning are harmonic lines that connects the city as one melody joining the whole country as one song
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“A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness.”
I’m Hanan AlObaidly, and I think everything we do in this life has to have meaning and of greater goals, which also implies on Urban Design and Planning since it touches many aspects of our lives!
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“Are we actually becoming ‘good at cities’ in a way we weren’t hundreds of years ago?” Ben Hammersley
I’m Moza AlMarri, and I think we should learn from the past, plan for the future by focusing on today!
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“Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how?”
-Edward T. McMahon
Hi, My name is Fatima AlNuaimi and I think that planning a city is not that easy!
We should maintain the city’s soil, air, and water (history, culture, and civilization)
try to develop it without killing the city’s existence!
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“There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Hello! My name is Urshi Khan. I believe that buildings create cities and with careful planning of buildings comes the best development of cities that comprises these buildings. The planning of a city must also consider itself to be a part of nature and respect the biodiversity and maintain the trees and rivers of the cities.
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“A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time”
― Patrick Geddes
“Nothing in the world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people”― Jan Gehl
“No urban area will prosper unless it attracts those who can choose to live wherever they wish”
– Jonathon Barnett
I`m Sara Al-Khalifa. I believe that cities shape our behavior, and great cities are those who contains the happiest people.. it is not great because they are happy.. they are happy because its great!
“If car ownership is mandatory, [the place is] not urban.” – Donald Baxter
My name is Marwa Dib. I strongly believe that we shape our cities and our cities afterwards shape us, and affect the way we behave. During this course, I expect to learn more about urban planning and how to utilize it in a way that improves walkability in Doha and its neighborhoods.
I am Angelica Caccam and I believe that a city is as good as the experience it offers to the people. It may be in the way the city converses its past within its present state. It may be in the way the city allows interaction between individuals. It may even be in the way the city provides opportunities for people to be exposed to other forms of art and architecture. Therefore, this growth of curiosity about what makes urbanism work led me to want to acquire more knowledge of what has been done and what is being done within the city fabric to achieve a ‘good experience’ for the people.
“ We are not running out of land. We are running out of urban places. ” – Andres Duany
My name is Dina Saleh and I believe lands should be developed, with a density of human structures such as houses, commercial buildings, roads, bridges, and railways, to meet the needs of an Urban area.
“ A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” – George S. Patton
I am Abeer Abunadi and I believe planning the cities we live in will improve our quality of life and its concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment. Sometimes getting the job done today is more than half the battle, so we need to begin today and tomorrow will be perfect for others and us.
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“A city’s environment is shaped not only by people who have an important influence, but by everyone who lives or works there.” -Robert Cowan
This is Noura ALmansouri, I believe that all cites all over the world are influenced by people who lives there and its obvious that there ides, inspirations, perspectives and traditions are reflected on their city, and simply that will create a great urbanism at the end.
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“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put together to form the whole is more important than any of the parts taken in isolation.”
Bill Hillier, Space is the Machine: A Configurational Theory of Architecture
This is Somaia, I believe it’s the small elements that form any whole compound & what configuration means is to put simply, relations taking into account other relations which accordingly develop a system, and this involves all disciplines interacting with each other to keep an equilibrium state of our natural environment as well as the built urban cities.