Khaled Alawadi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4616807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Khaled Alawadi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Khaled |
| FAMILY NAME | Alawadi |
| SIGNATURE | ALAWADI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Khalifa University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5875-5006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Designing urban networks for morphological resilience
Spatial equity assessment in urban open spaces: Development of an objectively measured walkability index for women in Monastir, Tunisia
How is urban agriculture practiced, institutionalized, implemented, and sustained? A literature review
Urban agriculture (UA) has emerged as a crucial strategy for ensuring sustainable food access in both developing and developed nations. However, the interplay between planning regulations and land availability significantly influences farmed land's scope and location, directly impacting UA activities' scale and intensity. The spatial mechanisms governing land use for UA stem from planning regulations, which may or may not align with food policies…
Harvesting potential: Unveiling urban agriculture trends in Abu Dhabi’s cityscape
Building with superblocks: Study of Gulf corporation cities
Rethinking Urban Sustainability in the GCC: Translating Plans into Practices
This study uses morphological mapping to trace sustainable urban forms over six decades in sixty-five neighborhoods in seven Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) cities. The study examines the evolution of three dimensions—compactness, connectivity, and diversity. The aims are (1) to assess the extent to which sustainable forms have been implemented in neighborhood development and (2) to identify model neighborhoods that can guide sustainable neighborh…
Navigating the network: Comparing modular and non-modular neighborhoods for better pedestrian flow
A Grid Is Not a Tree: Toward a Reconciliation of Alexander’s and Martin’s Views of City Form
Christopher Alexander famously declared that “a city is not a tree,” while Leslie Martin declared that “the grid is [a] generator.” This article investigates how Alexander’s call for overlap, adaptability, and order can indeed be manifested in grid networks, as Martin claimed. Order has been measured using the entropy of street orientation, while adaptability has been denoted by the streets’ betweenness values. Through the analysis of Abu Dhabi’s…
Typological index of alleyways: Mapping the pattern of a forgotten urban form element
Alleys have been neglected in the definition of urban form even though they have existed since antiquity and have served a variety of purposes. This paper identifies alleys as a critical space, especially at the neighbourhood scale. Neighbourhood samples belonging to different growth phases in Abu Dhabi and Dubai are taken as case studies to document the changing morphologies of alleys. Morphological mapping identified ten typologies of alleys. F…
The edge and the center in neighborhood planning units: Assessing permeability and edge attractiveness in Abu Dhabi
Assessing walkability in hot arid regions: The case of downtown Abu Dhabi
Transnational mobilities of the tallest building: Origins, mobilization and urban effects of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa
The media and scholarly descriptions and understandings of the tallest building in the world, namely the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, generally, have been simplified. Either celebrating or condemning it, these explanations typically stress the unique technological solutions, the symbolic and political motivations or the financial risk and economic gamble. This manuscript documents the origins – in terms of both its generation as centrepiece of the larg…
Planning in the age of pandemics: Renewing suburban design
Perspectives on Everyday Urbanism: Evidence from an Abu Dhabi Neighborhood
Everyday urbanism, a bottom-up planning approach, exemplifies the discourse in current planning practice through the lens of critical urbanism. This study uses morphological mapping, observation, and open- and closed-ended questionnaire responses to identify factors that facilitate everyday urbanism in a neighborhood in Abu Dhabi and offer an action plan for putting everyday urbanism into practice. Findings indicate that everyday urbanism is faci…
Rethinking suburban design: Streets v/s alleys in improving network connectivity
The notion of an urban-suburban dichotomy is deep-rooted in the literature, which regularly denigrates suburbs and nostalgically g lorifies urban centres. Meanwhile, suburbs have continued to dominate the urbanization process in many regions. This paper does not reject suburbs as an undesirable phenomenon but instead investigates how suburbs can be improved. Taking Abu Dhabi and Dubai as case studies, the article studies the connectivity efficien…
Design and planning for accessibility: Lessons from Abu Dhabi and Dubai’s neighborhoods
Reclaiming Alleyways to Improve Network Connectivity: Lessons from Dubai’s Neighborhoods
This study highlights the necessity of studying both streets and alleyways when assessing network connectivity efficiency. Taking Dubai as a case, the research evaluates eleven neighborhoods with different streets and alleyways systems designed during different growth periods. The focus is placed on the efficiency of different street layouts and explores the contribution of alleys to that efficiency. A Pedestrian Route Directness (PRD) test is us…
Walking the superblocks: Street layout efficiency and the sikkak system in Abu Dhabi
A return to the old landscape? Balancing physical planning ideals and cultural constraints in Dubai’s residential neighborhoods
Land, urban form, and politics: A study on Dubai's housing landscape and rental affordability
Whatever Happened to Dubai's Public Spaces
As an ambitious city aspiring to become a major contributor to and player in the global world, Dubai often tends to be endeared to and affected by grand-scale urbanism and skyscraper skylines. The recent practice of architecture in Dubai is replete with examples of architectural monuments and miraculous constructions. Whilst the architectural feats required to raise grand structures for global branding and economic strategy are noteworthy, many o…
The Debate over Neighborhood Density in Dubai: Between Theory and Practicality
This research surveys and compares the opinions of specialists, residents, and government officials on the feasibility of implementing compact forms in the development of Dubai neighborhoods. Results reveal that while experts and policy makers appreciate the virtues of density, Dubai’s citizens perceive density as a threat to their economic and social statuses. While density constitutes a morphological ideal for generating better urban landscapes…
Rethinking Dubai's urbanism: Generating sustainable form-based urban design strategies for an integrated neighborhood
Place attachment as a motivation for community preservation: The demise of an old, bustling, Dubai community
This paper describes how Dubai’s top-down redevelopment strategy affected residents of Sha’biyat Al Defaa’ and Sha’biyat Al Shorta, or Army and Police Colony, a densely aging Dubai neighbourhood. The article draws on an original ethnographic case study, including field observation, interviews with residents and local press reports. Findings show that redevelopment demolished this old neighbourhood to appeal to economic elites without making any e…
Place attachment as a motivation for community preservation: The demise of an old, bustling, Dubai community
This paper describes how Dubai’s top-down redevelopment strategy affected residents of Sha’biyat Al Defaa’ and Sha’biyat Al Shorta, or Army and Police Colony, a densely aging Dubai neighbourhood. The article draws on an original ethnographic case study, including field observation, interviews with residents and local press reports. Findings show that redevelopment demolished this old neighbourhood to appeal to economic elites without making any e…
The Debate over Neighborhood Density in Dubai: Between Theory and Practicality
This research surveys and compares the opinions of specialists, residents, and government officials on the feasibility of implementing compact forms in the development of Dubai neighborhoods. Results reveal that while experts and policy makers appreciate the virtues of density, Dubai’s citizens perceive density as a threat to their economic and social statuses. While density constitutes a morphological ideal for generating better urban landscapes…
Rethinking Dubai's urbanism: Generating sustainable form-based urban design strategies for an integrated neighborhood
Land, urban form, and politics: A study on Dubai's housing landscape and rental affordability
Whatever Happened to Dubai's Public Spaces
As an ambitious city aspiring to become a major contributor to and player in the global world, Dubai often tends to be endeared to and affected by grand-scale urbanism and skyscraper skylines. The recent practice of architecture in Dubai is replete with examples of architectural monuments and miraculous constructions. Whilst the architectural feats required to raise grand structures for global branding and economic strategy are noteworthy, many o…
Rethinking Urban Sustainability in the GCC: Translating Plans into Practices
This study uses morphological mapping to trace sustainable urban forms over six decades in sixty-five neighborhoods in seven Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) cities. The study examines the evolution of three dimensions—compactness, connectivity, and diversity. The aims are (1) to assess the extent to which sustainable forms have been implemented in neighborhood development and (2) to identify model neighborhoods that can guide sustainable neighborh…
Design and planning for accessibility: Lessons from Abu Dhabi and Dubai’s neighborhoods
Reclaiming Alleyways to Improve Network Connectivity: Lessons from Dubai’s Neighborhoods
This study highlights the necessity of studying both streets and alleyways when assessing network connectivity efficiency. Taking Dubai as a case, the research evaluates eleven neighborhoods with different streets and alleyways systems designed during different growth periods. The focus is placed on the efficiency of different street layouts and explores the contribution of alleys to that efficiency. A Pedestrian Route Directness (PRD) test is us…
The Debate over Neighborhood Density in Dubai: Between Theory and Practicality
This research surveys and compares the opinions of specialists, residents, and government officials on the feasibility of implementing compact forms in the development of Dubai neighborhoods. Results reveal that while experts and policy makers appreciate the virtues of density, Dubai’s citizens perceive density as a threat to their economic and social statuses. While density constitutes a morphological ideal for generating better urban landscapes…
Rethinking Dubai's urbanism: Generating sustainable form-based urban design strategies for an integrated neighborhood
Place attachment as a motivation for community preservation: The demise of an old, bustling, Dubai community
This paper describes how Dubai’s top-down redevelopment strategy affected residents of Sha’biyat Al Defaa’ and Sha’biyat Al Shorta, or Army and Police Colony, a densely aging Dubai neighbourhood. The article draws on an original ethnographic case study, including field observation, interviews with residents and local press reports. Findings show that redevelopment demolished this old neighbourhood to appeal to economic elites without making any e…
Walking the superblocks: Street layout efficiency and the sikkak system in Abu Dhabi
A return to the old landscape? Balancing physical planning ideals and cultural constraints in Dubai’s residential neighborhoods
Land, urban form, and politics: A study on Dubai's housing landscape and rental affordability
Whatever Happened to Dubai's Public Spaces
As an ambitious city aspiring to become a major contributor to and player in the global world, Dubai often tends to be endeared to and affected by grand-scale urbanism and skyscraper skylines. The recent practice of architecture in Dubai is replete with examples of architectural monuments and miraculous constructions. Whilst the architectural feats required to raise grand structures for global branding and economic strategy are noteworthy, many o…
Design and planning for accessibility: Lessons from Abu Dhabi and Dubai’s neighborhoods
Reclaiming Alleyways to Improve Network Connectivity: Lessons from Dubai’s Neighborhoods
This study highlights the necessity of studying both streets and alleyways when assessing network connectivity efficiency. Taking Dubai as a case, the research evaluates eleven neighborhoods with different streets and alleyways systems designed during different growth periods. The focus is placed on the efficiency of different street layouts and explores the contribution of alleys to that efficiency. A Pedestrian Route Directness (PRD) test is us…
Rethinking suburban design: Streets v/s alleys in improving network connectivity
The notion of an urban-suburban dichotomy is deep-rooted in the literature, which regularly denigrates suburbs and nostalgically g lorifies urban centres. Meanwhile, suburbs have continued to dominate the urbanization process in many regions. This paper does not reject suburbs as an undesirable phenomenon but instead investigates how suburbs can be improved. Taking Abu Dhabi and Dubai as case studies, the article studies the connectivity efficien…
Assessing walkability in hot arid regions: The case of downtown Abu Dhabi
Transnational mobilities of the tallest building: Origins, mobilization and urban effects of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa
The media and scholarly descriptions and understandings of the tallest building in the world, namely the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, generally, have been simplified. Either celebrating or condemning it, these explanations typically stress the unique technological solutions, the symbolic and political motivations or the financial risk and economic gamble. This manuscript documents the origins – in terms of both its generation as centrepiece of the larg…
Planning in the age of pandemics: Renewing suburban design
Perspectives on Everyday Urbanism: Evidence from an Abu Dhabi Neighborhood
Everyday urbanism, a bottom-up planning approach, exemplifies the discourse in current planning practice through the lens of critical urbanism. This study uses morphological mapping, observation, and open- and closed-ended questionnaire responses to identify factors that facilitate everyday urbanism in a neighborhood in Abu Dhabi and offer an action plan for putting everyday urbanism into practice. Findings indicate that everyday urbanism is faci…
A Grid Is Not a Tree: Toward a Reconciliation of Alexander’s and Martin’s Views of City Form
Christopher Alexander famously declared that “a city is not a tree,” while Leslie Martin declared that “the grid is [a] generator.” This article investigates how Alexander’s call for overlap, adaptability, and order can indeed be manifested in grid networks, as Martin claimed. Order has been measured using the entropy of street orientation, while adaptability has been denoted by the streets’ betweenness values. Through the analysis of Abu Dhabi’s…
Typological index of alleyways: Mapping the pattern of a forgotten urban form element
Alleys have been neglected in the definition of urban form even though they have existed since antiquity and have served a variety of purposes. This paper identifies alleys as a critical space, especially at the neighbourhood scale. Neighbourhood samples belonging to different growth phases in Abu Dhabi and Dubai are taken as case studies to document the changing morphologies of alleys. Morphological mapping identified ten typologies of alleys. F…
The edge and the center in neighborhood planning units: Assessing permeability and edge attractiveness in Abu Dhabi
Building with superblocks: Study of Gulf corporation cities
Rethinking Urban Sustainability in the GCC: Translating Plans into Practices
This study uses morphological mapping to trace sustainable urban forms over six decades in sixty-five neighborhoods in seven Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) cities. The study examines the evolution of three dimensions—compactness, connectivity, and diversity. The aims are (1) to assess the extent to which sustainable forms have been implemented in neighborhood development and (2) to identify model neighborhoods that can guide sustainable neighborh…
Navigating the network: Comparing modular and non-modular neighborhoods for better pedestrian flow
Spatial equity assessment in urban open spaces: Development of an objectively measured walkability index for women in Monastir, Tunisia
How is urban agriculture practiced, institutionalized, implemented, and sustained? A literature review
Urban agriculture (UA) has emerged as a crucial strategy for ensuring sustainable food access in both developing and developed nations. However, the interplay between planning regulations and land availability significantly influences farmed land's scope and location, directly impacting UA activities' scale and intensity. The spatial mechanisms governing land use for UA stem from planning regulations, which may or may not align with food policies…
Harvesting potential: Unveiling urban agriculture trends in Abu Dhabi’s cityscape
Designing urban networks for morphological resilience
Geography (18 works) · Engineering (17 works) · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (15 works) · Civil engineering (13 works) · Urban planning (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Environmental planning (10 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Political science (9 works)