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36 H. St J. B. Philby, "Riyadh: Ancient and Modern," The Middle East Journal 2 (1959): 131.
37
Mansfield, 76.
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39 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ministry of Planning. 1983. Achievements of the Development Plans:
1390-1403 (1970-1983). P. 2.
40 The government did not publish the Kingdom's total population, leaving the total number to
speculation. An average of national and international estimates suggests a national population of 7
million.
41
In 1987, Saudis accounted for only 13% (or 37,000) of the number of employees in the private sector.
Of the 37,000 Saudis working in the private sector, 21,000 were wage and salary earners. Most of the
rest were non-salaried managers of private establishments. Eighteen percent of non-Saudi workers in
the private sector were private household workers. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, High Commission for
the Development of Arriyadh. Demographic, Transportation, Land Use, and Economic Studies For the
City of Arriyadh, Executive Summary (Riyadh: National Offset Printing Press, October, 1987), 16.
42 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Finance and National Economy, Central Department of
Statistics, Statistical Year Book: Twenty Fifth Issue, 1409/1989 Riyadh: CDS), 634.
43 In Riyadh the villa type comprises 37.9% of the residential stock. Source: High Commission for the
Development of Riyadh. Land Use Survey: Summary Report. (Riyadh: A1 Shathry Consulting
Engineering, 1987). However, the proportion of mud houses shrunk from 45% in 1968 to 7.5% by
1986. Apartment units comprise 39% of the housing stock.
44 SECT International/SEDES. Arriyadh: Hadirah Dawolliah (Riyadh: International Metropolis, c.
1977), 14.
45 Khalid M. Al-Ankary and El-Sayed El-Bushra, "Urban Growth and Urbanization in Saudi Arabia." In
Urban and Rural Profiles in Saudi Arabia (Berlin, Gebrudern Borntraeger, 1989), 12.
46
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Information, A. I. Daghistani. Ar-Riyadh, Urban Development
and Planning (Riaydh: Saudi Arabian Printing Co. Ltd., 1985), 110.
47 SECT, 19
48
Ibid, 37.
49
M. E. Bonine, "The Urbanization of the Persian Gulf Nations." In The Persian Gulf States: A General
Survey, edited by A.J. Cottrell, C. Bosworth, M. Burrell, K. McLachlan, and R. Savory, 225-278
(Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1980).
50 Speerplan Regional-Und Stadtplaner, 2-284.