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Correlation between Land Use and the Transformation of Rural Housing Model in the Coastal Region of Syria

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  • Nebras Khadour

    (Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art Budapest, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences—MATE, 1118 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Nawarah Al Basha

    (Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art Budapest, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences—MATE, 1118 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Máté Sárospataki

    (Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art Budapest, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences—MATE, 1118 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Albert Fekete

    (Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art Budapest, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences—MATE, 1118 Budapest, Hungary)

Abstract

The phenomenon of urban sprawl has caused radical changes in the spatial structure of cities and rural areas all around the world. Syria is among the developing countries that have experienced this phenomenon. Some of the resulted processes of urban sprawl like urbanization and counter-urbanization have had a clear impact on the land use and lifestyle in both cities and the countryside of different regions in Syria. This research focuses on the coastal region and the spatial changes that affected the nature of social life, such as the rapid growth of the population, the expansion of cities, and the new developments, which in turn have led to considerable changes in the relationship and scale of the house, garden, and landscape. The research studies the development of the rural housing model in the coastal region and its relation to the surrounding landscape. It tracks three phases of the housing unit’s development and conducts a comparative study on four villages using a questionnaire to evaluate the performance of those units. The results of this research show significant change in the relationship between rural and urban areas resulting from the new residential developments, as well as the relationship of land use and the historic plot structure and that of the garden and the house into the overall character of the landscape.

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  • Nebras Khadour & Nawarah Al Basha & Máté Sárospataki & Albert Fekete, 2021. "Correlation between Land Use and the Transformation of Rural Housing Model in the Coastal Region of Syria," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-15, April.
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