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Anne Vernez Modoun. Built for Change: Neighborhood Architecture in San Francisco (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1986), 92.
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Karl Deutsch, quoted in East Cam, "Urbanization and Political Behavior." In The Middle East City:
Ancient Traditions Confront a Modern World, edited by A. Saqqaf (New York: Paragon House
Publishers, 1987), 339.
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^ Kevin Lynch loosely relates the "fit" of a settlement, that is the degree to which "its spatial and
temporal pattern matches the customary behavior of its inhabitants," to comfort, satisfaction and
efficiency Kevin Lynch, Good City Form (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987), 152. I risk the
general proposition that the contemporary Saudi built environment does not meet such criteria,
especially comfort and efficiency. Tarik Al-Solaiman (1989), who attempted to gauge such a
subjective indicator, cautiously concluded that the totally designed and built "model" communities,
such as the Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh and the Internal Security Forces' community housing in
Arar, are a "more favorable alternative to that of grid-iron speculative land sub-divisioning," which
marks the majority of contemporary uiban development in the Kingdom T. Al-Soliman, "The
Characteristics of Planned Communities and their Impact on Urban Development and Residents
Perceptions." In Urban and Rural Profiles in Saudi Arabia, edited by K. Al-Ankaiy and El-Sayed El-
Bushra, 45-76 (Berlin: Gebrudem Borntraeger, 1989), 73.
14 Lynch, 142.