المدينة المرنة نحو الاستجابة للتغيرات في المدن: دراسة في المركز التاريخي لمدينة كربلاء المقدسة

Abstract EN

As a concept, the flexible city is relatively new to the urban debate despite its great importance due to the significant challenges that cities face.

Cities must be able to withstand changes and transformations, whether they were urban, societal or environmental.

This research contributes to the discussion and understanding of the flexible city in theory and in practice.

Through their study of the concepts of the flexible city and its secondary axes, the researchers reached to derive several main indicators, and then divide those indicators under three important axes: (Urban structure and environment, management, authority, and strategy, the social aspect).

The urban structure indicator is divided into four secondary axes.

: (functional diversity, the difficulty of changing the urban system, the interconnection and, and the regional factor), while the indicator of management, authority, and strategy is divided into: (response to emergency situations and civil leadership).

The social aspect indicator is divided into three axes: (social capital, the public and private sector ownership overlap, and the proportion of immigrants).

These axes and their secondary indicators are the tools through which the flexible city is implemented, which work together in an interactive and integrated manner to reach a flexible and efficient city, and apply it on the ground.