With the aim of exchanging experiences and building capacities of urban planners and designers, the Ministry of Municipality, represented by the Urban Planning Department, organized a workshop entitled “Humanization of cities” It lasted five days.
The workshop was an important experience represented in integrating the participants into work teams from the various authorities concerned with the urban planning process, especially since they belong to several partner institutions in the process of planning and implementing the public sphere from within and outside the country at the level of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
The Urban Planning Department at the Ministry of Municipality raised, through the workshop, the problem of the urban public sphere, as the workshop dealt with strategies adopted globally to preserve a populated public sphere that welcomes people, even at times when there are no events, throughout the year, when the climate becomes harsher, and at different times of the day.
After introducing the participants to the concepts related to the humanization of cities and the most prominent strategies adopted globally, through 12 presentations by experts in the field, and visits to humanized sites in the country, the participants, who were divided into 6 work teams, developed innovative and practical proposals, as well as submitted designs in this regard.
This was followed by a presentation of ideas to the arbitration committee, which consisted of a number of experts in the field from Qatar University and the relevant government departments. The projects were judged based on criteria derived from the workshop material, and the winning team was announced, whose proposal had the best technical and practical solutions for the region under study.
