The Adoption of Rapid Urban Development Approaches to Enhance the City’s Open Spaces
Refaat, Ahmed Alkesmi, Fatima
Refaat, Ahmed
Alkesmi, Fatima
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2024-05-11
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Due to rapid urbanization and the fast pace of urban development, several open spaces experience a lack of fulfilling the physical and social needs of their users. To enhance these open spaces, there is a need to adopt more rapid urban development and transformation approaches rather than traditional ones. Thus, this paper explores the types of rapid urban development approaches to enhance urban open spaces. To achieve this aim, the authors investigate two urban development approaches tactical urbanism and urban acupuncture. In this sense, the paper attempts to identify these approaches’ strategies, principles, and constraints. Thus, through a cross-comparison of different approaches, the paper identifies the convergences and divergences among these approaches and highlights the resemblance strategies, principles that can be adopted to enhance the cities’ open spaces, and the common constraints that should be addressed.