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Al-Hathloul, S. (1981) Tradition, Continuity and Change in the Physical Environment: The Arab-Muslim City. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

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• TITLE: The Hierarchical Order of Spaces in Arab Traditional Towns: The Case of Najd, Saudi Arabia

  AUTHORS: Mohammed Mashary Alnaim

  KEYWORDS: Hierarchy, Order, Space, Built Environment, Najd, Urban Fabric, Culture, Space Syntax

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol.8 No.3, July 24, 2020

  ABSTRACT: The built environment faces many challenges in accommodating multi-cultural diversity and migrating from the suburbs, which led to different places being isolated or neglected. Sub-identities established by a specific group of people become isolated and away from the shared identity that the built environment established for itself. We examine this issue in the Najdibuilt environment by examining how Najdi locals generated a holistichierarchical order of specs. This paper argues that the spatial order encouraged locals to develop a shared and agreed mechanism while in parallel, it gave individuals the ability to modify their places without affecting that shared holistic spatial order.