The Transformations in the Urban Fabric of Traditional City Centers (Lebanese Experience: Case Study)
Abstract
Most of our residential neighborhoods suffer from a clear shift in their planning and design characteristics on one hand and functional and behavioral aspects on the other hand, and even in their economic and environmental performance from the traditional to the modern. This is a good phenomenon in case of control of the mechanism of positive transformation but in case of non-controlling, the Stuttering will be a natural
result. because of the acceleration in the functional and technological variables, which are more rapid flowing than adaptability and acceptance of traditional space, and tries to contemporary with all the aspirations of the concept to intrude into urban space in a way that is almost coercive, making it difficult to achieve good performance of contemporary requirements on one hand and the decline and deterioration in values
Inherited on the other hand.
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