Sustainable Residential Development and Open Space Networks

This study presents design guidelines for Sustainable residential system for urban landscapes, based on key landscape environmental principles which recognize the importance of spatial configuration and the role of connectivity within the whole urban fabric. The urban open space complex is proposed as a key component of a sustainable urban landscape. The study aims to investigate possible benefits of urban green space networks for more socially integrated residential spaces and places. The research method consists of the site inventory, analysis and synthesis through site documents that include pictures, maps and aerial images of some residential projects of the “Holy city of Makkah”, Saudi Arabia (as a case study). The proposed strategy is used to develop relationships between the importance of community life pattern and quality, as well as; the quantity of residential urban open space networks. Although the proposal is case specific, its aim is to provide an integrated approach to the ecological planning, design and management of residential urban open spaces. to improve the quality of life in existing cities of Saudi Arabia. The aim of this work is not to achieve a united form for all the elements of residential principles and using them without concerning about the city’s mechanism qualities and time circumstances. Actually it is an approach to reach the idea of making Sustainable Residential Development and Open Space Networks which is the reason of an effective production of valuable principles and criteria towards sustainable cities. We cannot stop develop, but we can control that by logical and suitable landscape architectural guidelines.