Document Type : Research Paper

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University of Technology / Department of Architecture/ Iraq

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Water is an important element of urban development due to its relationship with changing environmental and climatic conditions in particular, thus, contemporary trends suggest the link between water and urban development processes, offering a new kind of safe coexistence with water through the role of urban design, social life and ecological renovation.
The research explores the concept of (Water Urbanism) to make cities more coherent and open towards water environment, as a contemporary track contributing to the development and sustainability of cities on the one side, and extract the most important indicators for the design principles for the water urbanism approach on the other side, the problem of the research was identified as “the absence of a comprehensive theoretical framework for the design principles of the water urbanism approach according to sustainable city development trends”, and the hypothesis of the research states as "the design principles of the water urbanism approach for multi-uses are integrated through networks and water linkages”. The hypothesis of the research was tested in two urban models that adopted a clear blue network design with the open urban spaces system. The research found a set of theoretical and practical conclusions concerning formulas that fulfill the design principles of the water urbanism approach.
الملخص
 یعتبر الماء عنصرا مهما فی التنمیة والتطویر الحضری نظرا لعلاقته بتغیّر الظروف البیئیة والمناخیة على وجه الخصوص، لذا ظهرت توجهات معاصرة تقترح الربط بین الماء وعملیات التنمیة الحضریة وتعرض نوعاً جدیداً من التعایش الآمن مع الماء، من خلال دور التصمیم الحضری والحیاة الأجتماعیة والتجدید الایکولوجی.
یستکشف البحث مفهوم الحضریة المائیة (Water Urbanism) لجعل المدن أکثر تماسکاً وانفتاحاً تجاه البیئة المائیة کمسار معاصر یساهم فی تنمیة المدن واستدامتها من جانب، واستخلاص أهم مؤشرات المبادئ التصمیمیة لنهج الحضریة المائیة من جانب اخر، فتحددت مشکلة البحث فی "عدم وجود اطار معرفی شامل للمبادئ التصمیمیة لنهج الحضریة المائیة على وفق توجهات التنمیة المستدامة للمدن"، وفرضیة البحث لتنص على "تتکامل المبادئ التصمیمیة لنهج الحضریة المائیة الخاصة بتعدد الاستخدامات من خلال الشبکات والروابط المائیة". تم اختبار فرضیة البحث فی أثنین من النماذج الحضریة اعتمدت تصمیم واضح لشبکة البنى الزرقاء مع منظومة الفضاءات الحضریة المفتوحة. توصل البحث الى مجموعة من الاستنتاجات النظریة والعملیة المتعلقة بصیغ تحقق المبادئ التصمیمیة لنهج الحضریة المائیة.

 

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