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Abstract Urban Structure design is considered a critical pillar that plays an important role in shaping the urbanization process. The thesis tries to figure out whether urban structure impacts the development rates on the national and local scale. Studies and analysis are carried out on the macro and micro scale to investigate the correlation between development and urban structure formulation. The thesis is developed to include an international analysis for countries and cities in Europe and North America representing the developing countries that achieved high rates of development. from the analysis results recommendations are developed and applied to reach an urban prototype model on the neighborhood scale and tested on the city scale. This thesis tried to present a comprehensive overview and a brief study about the city fabric and its urban structure. The research started by explaining the meaning of a fabric, its elements and parameters and the main factors that shape any city structure. The research then summarized the fabric typologies into two main characters Compact city model and sprawled one. An approach to reach the urban fabric typology that achieves the best results of development and sustain the economic growth is the main goal of this research. Consequently, A deep research was carried out about the meaning of urban economies, its theories, recommendations as a way to understand what are the forces that boost an economy or decline the growth in another. It was concluded from the study that there are two main approaches for agglomerating economies either localization or scale economies that depend on labor division and specialization in order to achieve mass production mainly standardized job style, or urbanization economies that rely upon diversity of uses in a collaborative intellectual working style. A method to translate and reflect these forces upon a fabric typology that incubate these elements together in a harmonic way was developed. The main idea of the proposed model was to achieve a polycentric fabric on the macro and micro scale. On the macro scale, a poly independent connected neighborhoods shape the city image whereas the main autonomous unit is a neighborhood. On the micro scale each neighborhood consists of clusters that are diverse in the residential typologies, and employment life style. The main approach of designing the neighborhood unit is to lay upon two main economic bases. The first near the center which is the administrative diverse intellectual base where the mind of the urban fabric is situated. As we go away from the center high tech. industries appear where the creative residents are allocated. Further away, the second economic base start to appear which is the scale industries that depend upon mass production and high number of employees. It is worth saying that the sense of ambition is found to motivate residents to gain high level of education that candidate them to move on and live nearby the center and at the same time it provides the aspect of just not equity between the different residents categories. High residential typologies are allocated in between the different connected neighborhood making good use of the spatial area between them to be luxurious green lung that benefits the whole city as well. Last but not least all neighborhood are connected through different transportation axes achieving the idea of transit oriented development neighborhood instead of the traditional neighborhood. |