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open house international Vol.37 No.2, June 2012 A perceptual approach for investigating urban space diversity in the city of Doha. INTRODUC TION Historically, Doha was a fishing and pearl diving town. Today, the capital is home to more than 90% of the country’s 1.7 million people, with over 80% professional expatriates from other countries. Up to the mid 1960s, the majority of the buildings were individual traditional houses that presented local responses to the surrounding physical and sociocultural conditions. During the 1970s Doha was transformed into a modernized city. However, in the 1980s and early 1990s the development process was slow compared to the preceding period due to either the overall political atmosphere and the first Gulf war or the heavy reliance of the country on the resources and economy of neighboring countries (Salama, 2008). Over the past few years, the city has acquired a geo-strategic importance. Through the shift of global economic forces, it is being developed as a service hub (together with other major cities in the region such as Abu-Dhabi, Dubai, and Manama) between old economies of Western Europe and the rising economies of Asia. In the context of international competition between cities new 2 4 A PERCEPTUAL APPROACH FOR INVESTIGATING URBAN SPACE DIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF DOHA Ashraf M. Salama and Remah Y. Gharib A bstract The city of Doha is growing rapidly with emerging urban nodes and centers, housing development. Little attention however has been paid to several growth aspects including the understanding of urban space diversity and the resulting inhabitants’ spatial experience, their attitudes toward emerging urbanized spaces. Utilizing a perceptual approach in the form of an attitude survey, this paper explores urban spaces in the city of Doha as perceived and experienced by different groups. An investigation of a number of key urban spaces is undertaken through the identification of key urban nodes that are identified based on parameters that include density, commercial activity, and public accessibility. Spaces are examined from the perspective of Doha’s inhabitants using 490 responses to a survey questionnaire. The results delineate that urban spaces lack key conditions amenable to creating urban diversity. Nevertheless, they corroborate the postulation that urban spaces are perceived and experienced differently by different groups based on their gender, age, and cultural background. The paper concludes with suggestions toward a more inclusive approach to the design of the city’s urban spaces. Keywords: Urban diversity, perceptual approach, centers, peripheries, Doha. challenges are emerging. Cities need to find ways to sustain and extend their position. No doubt, architecture and the overall urban environment are tools utilized by governments and decision makers to help cities survive in the global competition of geographic locations (Salama, 2011). In current discourse on urbanism in Middle Eastern cities emphasis is always placed on contextual and critical approaches for investigating place making. The contextual approach fosters an understanding of place by focusing on the regional, historical, and natural aspects of the city or the region within which it exists. The critical approach involves descriptions that analytically discuss the practice of contemporary place making and the growing culture of fictionalizing and capitalist profit-seeking practice. This paper, however, attempts to offer a different slant toward the understanding of place in the city of Doha with a focus on urban diversity. The perceptual approach is proposed and utilized with an emphasis on the relationship between the physical qualities of the urban environment and those who perceive and comprehend such qualities. Such an approach has received little or no attention among both scholars and practitioners in the Middle East and the Gulf region.
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