Sustainable Socio-cultural Guidelines for Neighborhood Design in Jeddah

The current paperⁱ aims at developing a set of design guidelines that promotes the concept of socially sustainable neighbourhoods in Saudi Arabia. Nowadays, several rating systems and urban design codes around the world set guidelines for urban design development and particularly in neighbourhood design. The research problem is; these rating systems cannot be applied in the context of Saudi Arabia without considering its local social and cultural aspects. The paper resulted as a reaction to the abbreviation of socio-cultural aspects in neighbourhood design approaches. The paper presents a set of design guidelines adjusted to fit the context of Jeddah City.