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Abstract | ||
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Kuwait's urban history can be divided into two periods: the urbanization era between the seventeenth century and the early twentieth century and the rapid urban expansion that started shortly after. So far, the historical and geographical factors that drove these trends have not been studied extensively. In this work, an abundance of cartographic raw and secondary data was used to analyze the urban expansion and the evolution of the form of Kuwait City since antiquity. The analysis for the first period mainly includes mapping early settlements and linking them to events that dominated the regional history. For the second period, multiple custom-made maps were developed and studied in order to understand and explain the patterns of urban expansion. The findings show that early urbanization in Kuwait was driven by the topography of the area, as well as the strategic placement of trade and defensive settlements. Subsequently, urban expansion was driven initially by adhering to areas with economic activity and later by expanding along trade route paths. Finally, over the last 70 years, the local evolution of urban form has been driven completely by centralized planning from the government. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2021 | 10.3138/cart-2020-0019 | CARTOGRAPHICA |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
cartographic analysis, historical analysis, urbanization, urban expansion, master plan, Kuwait | Journal | 56 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
3 | 0317-7173 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mohamed Alkhuzamy Aziz | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Nayef Alghais | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |