المدينة الخضراء نموذجاً لمدن المستقبل في دولة الكويت

الملخص EN

The study of green cities and their establishment has become an urgent issue today, specially under the present environmental conditions manifested in air, land and marine environmental pollution.

Based on recent studies, Kuwaiti environment is ecologically fragile and suffers from many issues.

The in turn made green cities apressing need.

People suffer from social pressure and physical illness.

There is an urgent necessity for healthy natural areas, green lands and new residential settlements to meet the need of the increasing population growth.

The new areas should be environmentally friendly, pleasant and comfortable.

The current situation and the need to contribute toward solutions for the abovementioned problems inspire this kind of recent studies.

Studies that follow the documentary descriptive approach, using a number of methods.

The study aims to idintify the Concept of the green city & its importance along with its requirements and locations in order to be classified as envirommental friendly.

The study also identifies green cities advantages over typical cities.

Some examples of similar cities in the Gulf and the World have been discussed while displaying Kuwait natural & environment conditions and to which extent they are convenient to establish such cities.

The study has also laid out distributions and proportions of lands' use along with green cities' model maps and stereoscopic pictues in Kuwait.

In conclusion, achiving this kind of envirometaly friendly cities contributes toward reaching the goals set by the study.

This in turn requires speeding up its application, by cooperation of all governmental and private sectors.

Preserving these cities can be accomplished by the imposition of strict laws, which is best done by using the most recent technologies, especially GIS.