Islamic Architecture

By the 6th century a Germanic tribe called the Visigoths, converts to Arian Christianity, had established themselves as the aristocratic elite. The Christians built many monumental basilica-plan churches. The Santa Maria de Quintanilla de las Vinas, Burgos, Spain and San Juan de Banos de Cerrato are two such churches that still remain today. In the beginning of the 8th century Islamic Muslims conquered Spain and ended Visigothic rule. They constructed militaristic and religious architecture including castles, watchtowers, rock castes, the Great Mosque, and the Red Palace. The remaining Christians adopted some of the Islamic styles and soon built upon a new style that ended up

Economic factors are fundamental in determining urban structure. Cities can be seen as a form

For these reasons, big cities around the world are centers of culture and creativity, driving the advancement of the human race. There are many reasons why people choose to move to big cities and many reasons why people choose to stay there. There are many factors that have led to our big cities becoming as they are today. Each of these factors has led to the big cities of the world becoming diverse centers of Art and innovation constantly leading the world forward into the realm of the

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Urbanization issues are found in all nations regardless of them being first or third nations. It is a combination of factors of global, national, and local. Even the type of government is key to whether or not a developing country will succeed or fail. Also elite power, class structure and state policies are differences these countries often face.

Asian cities have been tended to grow more quickly than Western cities, so what makes their growth so phenomenal? The accelerated rate may be attributed to population dynamics, economic markets and or/socio-political conditions, poor planning and disregarding environmental hazards like flood plains have held them back. Many primate cities in Asia have grown to become megacities, and some more are rapidly increasing in size to assume such a status by the end of the century. This is a remarkable phenomenon fraught with various implications, favorable or unfavorable. In 1960 there were only two megacities in the region, which were, Tokyo and Shanghai. In 1970 Beijing was added, and Asia had three of 10 megacities in the world, or two of five

Land use and transportation systems are considered as the two most vital subsystems determining the long term urban form and structure. Meanwhile, urban growth is one of the most important topics in urban studies, and its main driving forces are population growth and transportation development. Rapid urban growth stresses the capacity of governments to provide adequate basic services such as road network.

Well, before we dig into SimCity 2013, maybe it would be beneficial to see how another game tackles the same material. Cities: Skylines uses the traditional SimCity residential/commercial/industrial model where jobs, workers, and produced goods all push and pull on one another. But where SimCity was fascinated primarily with how those raw forces drive city growth, Skylines takes that model and uses it as a basis for examining cities as defined by both their physicality and their public policies. More than SimCity (and certainly more than SimCity 2013), cities exist in a physical space. The flow of water determines where you want to dump your sewage or pull your water from, you need to make decisions about what directions to expand your city limits; power and water are only assumed to extend so far requiring investment in extending utilities for long distance expansions, bodies of water and mountains force players to build around them. Cities aren’t just a big jumble of roads and buildings that create aggregate demand, they’re an organism that grows to fit its environment and resources.

United Arab Emirates occupies a total area of about 83,600 square kilometers (32,400 square miles), along the south-eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula between 22°50 and 26°N and between 51° and 56°25 E. The UAE has 1 318 km of continental coastline along the Persian Gulf. The inflation rate, exchange rate and currency stability are important factors to consider in International trade, economically, the UAE has a 4% of GDP growth in 2012 with a lower inflation rate of 1.1%, In terms of days and cost of import procedure (United Arab Emirate). The Urbanization rate of the region is 84% (UAE) which would contribute to the product awareness in necessary part of the region since the urbanization rate is high. The common languages in

The strength of cities, and their capacity to generate income and wealth for their populations, and to enhance the transportation system by make it more efficient, and the production and operation to consider the impacts on the citizens of that city or town, the land use, the upbringing and economic development. A city should always find ways to improve and evolved with its surrounding, because people always want change or improvement within the city. For example: a new attraction, better transportation system, a safer places to raise children,

The Great Mosque of Córdoba was built in Córdoba, Andalucía, southern Spain: the capital at which Muslims exist. The great Mosque of Córdoba went under massive changes over centuries. These changes occurred because the Mosque was conquered by groups of people following different religions, including Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Each religion marked its conception through changing or adding a unique artwork that symbolized its essence. The Great Mosque of Córdoba was built by Arab architects in the eighth century and then a cathedral was added by Christian conquers in the sixteenth century .

Geography is very important when expanding a city. Cities are developed where resources including: water, soil, animals, plants, are plentiful. The areas of land with the highest populations are usually around a water source. Deserts and have the lowest populations because it's hard to sustain life in a very dry, hot environment. People want to live where resources are abundant.

The Hagia Sophia church and the Suleymaniye mosque are separated by a thousand years but are tied together eternally. One representing the achievement of the Christian-Byzantine empire and the other representing the ability of the Islamic-Ottoman empire and its architect Sinan. Two empires that had very little in common other than their architecture and region. In earlier history the Dome of the Rock represented the Islamic empire's attempt to rival the newly defeated Byzantine empire and its architectural achievements such as the Holy Sepulchre. As history often repeats itself, with similar political motives the Suleymaniye mosque became the Ottoman's answer to the

The UAE is one of the riches nations in the world as measure by per capita GNP. The economy is primarily based on the oil

Further infrastructural developments in the future includes Khalifa port in Abu Dhabi, expansion of Port Khalid in Sharjah, extensive goods rail networks connecting the GCC countries and other Airport and Port expansions. This vigorous investment in the sector is essential due to same trend prevailing among other GCC countries. This would further improve the market size and continue growth in sector.