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Evaluating the Efficiency of the Adopted Strategies Addressing Informal settlements in Saudi cities: The Case of Makkah Al-Mukaramah
ALMTAYRI, RABIYAH
ALMTAYRI, RABIYAH
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Informal settlement areas are a phenomenon that spreads in all countries of the world, and popular attempts reflect popular trends with the aim of obtaining housing. Major cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia suffer from the spread of this phenomenon in a large way, which affects the urban development process and the research aims. In general, to evaluate urban policies and determine their effectiveness and suitability for dealing with degraded informal settlements in order to extract the best of these policies to deal with the spread of informal settlements in Saudi cities. This is done by studying the concepts and characteristics of informal settlement areas and their role in providing housing for the residents and the problems they suffer from, with a focus on studying the informal settlement areas in the city of Makkah Al-Mukarramah in terms of their size, the reasons for their emergence analyzing their current situation, and then analyzing the opinion of experts, real estate developers and residents through a set of interviews, questionnaires and informal settlements site data in the city of Makkah Al-Mukarramah. This is done to determine the most important criteria that can be focused on during the policy of upgrading the urban and architectural environment of the region. In addition, studying the social and economic aspects of the residents in order to improve the reality of these areas without resorting to comprehensive removal operations, which have always been the adopted approach in dealing with these areas, and then drawing general results and presenting the proposed recommendations.