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Notes to Chapter VII
1 Helmut Mejcher, "Saudi Arabia's "Vital Link To The West': Some Political, Strategic and Tribal
Aspects of the Transarabian Pipeline(TAP) in the Stage of Planning 1940-1950," Middle Eastern
Studies 18 (October, 1982): 371.
2 Mejcher, 359.
^ Peter Mansfield, The New Arabians (Chicago: J.G. Ferguson Publishing Co., 1980), 68-70.
4 Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Selected Documents of the International
Petroleum Industry, Saudi Arabia- Pre-1966 (Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Co., Inc.,
1983), 55.
5' Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco Handbook: Oil and the Middle East (Netherlands: Enschede
en Zonen-Haarlem, 1968), 152.
6 Doxiadis, Arar, Existing Conditions, Final Report No. 5 (1974).
7 King Saud's reign was a period of ambivalence, Saud was caught in a whirlpool of tradition versus
modernity which was brought about by increasing pressure from within the country's leading sectors as
well as outside, both by friends and foes (see chapter two of this study). Development brought changes
in the society, which in turn yearned for a larger share in the national resources and the national
decision-making process.
8 Doxiadis Associates, Northern Region: Urban and Regional Plan and Program for Improving Existing
Conditions , Final (Revised) Report No. 1, Volume 1 (Athens, Greece: Doxiadis Associates, 1974),
146.
9 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Finance and National Economy, Statistical Year Book 20th
Issue, 1409H (1989), 635.
The role of government has been instrumental to the development of modern economies based on
government employment, services and development programs in agricultural as well as urban
settlements. For example, Al-Shamli, in northern Saudi Arabia's Hail region, a town of 130
dwellings, the government sector employs 32% while agriculture accounts for 12%. Al-Saghra of the
Al-Baha district, is inhabited by a population of 32,000. The leading employer is government which
employs 30%, followed by commerce 27%. and agriculture and construction which both employ 13%.
In 1983, Al-Ju'ranha in Makkah's district had a population of 1,700 living in 310 dwellings (and 1,100
vacant lots in modern subdivisions). The government sector was the leading sector accounting for
55%, followed by transport (21%) and trade (15%) all giving the tertiary sector a ninety percent share in
the town's economy. The agricultural sector employed only 3%. Muhammad Aslam Mughal," Land
Use in Rural Settlements of Saudi Arabia- Transition and Prospects," In Al-Ankary and El-Bushra,
Urban and Rural Profiles in Saudi Arabia (1989).
11 The modified form of this dwelling type prevalent in ahieaa Sha'abiyah is essentially an introverted
housing unit organized around the courtyard. It also called biout Sha 'abiyah (houses or residence of
the masses).