المراصد الحضرية : دراسة مقارنة لتجربة المملكة العربية السعودية مع تجارب الدول الأخرى : التحديات و سبل التطوير

الملخص EN

The aim of this research is to study the experience of Saudi Arabia, in establishing, operating, and managing urban observatories, deriving urban indicators, and the mechanism of collecting, classifying, and analyzing data compared to the experiences of other countries.

Furthermore, this research will focus on the challenges facing urban observatories and suggest ways to improve its work.

The results of this research show that first: urban observatories is a global trend as well as a necessity to dell with rapid urbanization in cities, increased urban problems, and as a tool to support local decision-making and direct resources for sustainable urban development.

Second, the experience in establishing and operating, and management of urban observatory is different from country to country and the challenges that it faces.

Third, results show The main challenges faces urban observatories in the kingdom are mainly lack of specialized and trained national labor force, weak budgets and financial resources, lack of coordination and cooperation between governments and private agencies responsible for providing data, and weak application of modern technology to facilitate and improve the work of urban observatories in collecting, classifying, analyzing and exchange of data, and deriving urban indictors, and experiences between the different organizations and other urban observatories.

Finally, this research recommend that local and regional municipalities in the kingdom must continue to establish and operate urban observatories, and provide it with the necessary specialized and trained national labor force, necessary financial resources and budgets, support it with needed technology, and increase cooperation and coordination between the different stake holders.

In addition this research, recommend that the recently established national urban observatory must be activated to provide the necessary support for local and regional urban observatories in the kingdom