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Category: Urban Planning

Houses without tranquility

Houses without Tranquility, Neighbors without Neighborliness

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Kuwaiti house designs, and modern neighborhoods by extension, lack some important qualities and elements of natural human habitation and urban settlements. They are missing:

Civility

Architecture

Urban presence

Objective identity

Sustainable approach

Pattern and spirit

Proportion and proportionality

Efficiency

Functionality

Consideration and care

They also lack:

Flourishing life

Humanity

Social responsibility

Beneficial neighborliness

Harmonious fabric

Warmth and intimacy

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Private Housing Prices and Freedom of Action vs. Freedom of Control

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Prices are against Kuwaiti Citizens
and the Solution is Free and Easy

If the government claims it doesn’t intervene in private housing real estate prices based on the principles of “owner’s freedom to manage their property” and “market freedom” in setting prices according to supply and demand, it has free measures that can significantly limit the astronomical prices affecting Kuwaiti … Read the rest

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Spatiotemporal Land Use in Kuwait

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One group asks “Most of Kuwait’s land is empty, why don’t you build residential areas? Why don’t you build border cities?” Another group says “Cultivate the land, we don’t want ready-made houses!”

The attached maps show the natural urban and population expansion over decades for four countries with varying areas, population, geography, and economy:

– Bahrain
– Hong Kong
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