| Author(s) | Omar S. BaHammam |
| Affiliation | College of Architecture & Planning, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Title | Analyzing Street Planting and Detecting Existing Patterns in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Architecture & Planning. Volume 16, No 1. (2004/1424) |
| Abstract | Trees have been associated with human settlements since the dawn of time. In modern time, trees play a major role in shaping healthy and beautiful cities. They scatter among the urban fabric mostly along public streets. Cities all over the world gave serious attention to street trees in order to overcome the decline of the natural environment as a result of the new industrialized urban growth. Riyadh City, as one of the fastest growing cities in the world, has adopted a new applied trends that led to increase the presence of greenery in the city, especially through the use of street trees. This study is trying to assess the existing situation of planting, detecting planting patterns and analyzing the existing patterns to identify appropriate planting ideas for existing and future applications. In order to address this research, different techniques were applied to answer the research concerns. Keywords: Planning process, planting patterns, street trees, paved sides, middle islands, native trees, non-native trees, deciduous trees, maintenance, and pedestrian. |
