Towards Sustainable Public Open Spaces for Promoting Human Comfort, Health and Well-Being: The Case of Oxygen Park in Doha, Qatar
Author | Al-Fadala, Eman |
Author | Fadli, Fodil |
Available date | 2020-04-30T12:48:26Z |
Publication Date | 2020 |
Publication Name | Proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Infrastructure and Construction |
Citation | Al-Fadala E., Fadli F., "Towards Sustainable Public Open Spaces for Promoting Human Comfort, Health and Well-Being: The Case of Oxygen Park in Doha, Qatar", International Conference on Civil Infrastructure and Construction (CIC 2020), Doha, Qatar, 2-5 February 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.29117/cic.2020.0121 |
ISSN | 2958-3128 |
Identifier | P. O. Box: 2713 Doha-Qatar, Email: qupress@qu.edu.qa |
Abstract | Public Open Spaces (POS) are an important and necessary component of the urban city design. Well-designed and well-functioning public open spaces provide a variety of social, economic, environmental, physical and psychological advantages for populations, and thus play a substantial role in improving the quality of city life and contributing to livability. Doha city, the capital State of Qatar, has encountered a rapid urbanization which brought with it an increasing number of inhabitants and the implementation of many urban projects (Salama & Wiedman, 2013); these changes demand well-designed and well-functioning public open spaces. Responding to this need, this paper aims to develop design guidelines for a sustainable public open space by exploring the physical and non-physical characteristics of a few key public open spaces as well as the ways in which environmental conditions impact user comfort, health and well-being-with an eye for accessibility, sociability, activities and user's comfort-in these POS. To achieve this aim, a combined methodology based on quantitative and qualitative techniques was developed and used to encompass the multi-dimensionality of the POS. Expected outcomes state that POS can become catalyst for healthy urban spaces if a series of multi-dimensional parameters are considered at all design stages |
Language | en |
Publisher | Qatar Univesrity Press |
Subject | Sustainable urban development (SUD) Public open spaces (POS) Sustainable city design Oxygen park |
Type | Conference Paper |
Pagination | 927-936 |
ESSN | 2958-3136 |
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