scholarly journals TOURISM-BASED APPROACH TO CONSERVING THE BUILT HERITAGE SITES IN THE HOLY CITY OF MAKKAH, SAUDI ARABIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOHAMMED BAGADER
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Holy City

scholarly journals Analyzing User Digital Emotions from a Holy versus Non-Pilgrimage City in Saudi Arabia on Twitter Platform

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6846
Author(s):  
Kashish Ara Shakil ◽  
Kahkashan Tabassum ◽  
Fawziah S. Alqahtani ◽  
Mudasir Ahmad Wani
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
Initial Attempt ◽  
Bilingual Dictionary ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
Emotion Lexicon ◽  
User Data ◽  
Regional Location ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Holy City

Humans are the product of what society and their environment conditions them into being. People living in metropolitan cities have a very fast-paced life and are constantly exposed to different situations. A social media platform enables individuals to express their emotions and sentiments and thus acts as a reservoir for the digital emotion footprints of its users. This study proposes that the user data available on Twitter has the potential to showcase the contrasting emotions of people residing in a pilgrimage city versus those residing in other, non-pilgrimage areas. We collected the Arabic geolocated tweets of users living in Mecca (holy city) and Riyadh (non-pilgrimage city). The user emotions were classified on the basis of Plutchik’s eight basic emotion categories, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Joy, Surprise, Disgust, Trust, and Anticipation. A new bilingual dictionary, AEELex (Arabic English Emotion Lexicon), was designed to determine emotions derived from user tweets. AEELex has been validated on commonly known and popular lexicons. An emotion analysis revealed that people living in Mecca had more positivity than those residing in Riyadh. Anticipation was the emotion that was dominant or most expressed in both places. However, a larger proportion of users living in Mecca fell under this category. The proposed analysis was an initial attempt toward studying the emotional and behavioral differences between users living in different cities of Saudi Arabia. This study has several other important applications. First, the emotion-based study could contribute to the development of a machine learning-based model for predicting depression in netizens. Second, behavioral appearances mined from the text could benefit efforts to identify the regional location of a particular user.

scholarly journals Barriers to special care patients with mental illness receiving oral healthcare. A cross sectional study in the Holy City of Makkah, Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Aljabri ◽  
Ibrahim Gadibalban ◽  
Aboelezz Kalboush ◽  
Hesham Sadek ◽  
Hassan Abed
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Holy City

scholarly journals Major Factors Causing Construction Delays in Mecca

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghazi Saad A Elawi ◽  
Mohammed Algahtany ◽  
Dean Kashiwagi ◽  
Kenneth Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Average Delay ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
Underground Utilities ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The City ◽  
Holy City

Delays are a major cause for concern in the construction industry in Saudi Arabia. This paper identifies the main causes of delay in infrastructure projects in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and compares these with projects around the country and other Gulf countries. Data was obtained from 49 infrastructure projects undertaken by the owner and were analyzed quantitatively to understand the causes and severity of delay. 10 risk factors were identified and were grouped into four categories. Average delay in infrastructure projects in Mecca was found to be 39% of the estimated projects schedules. The most severe cause of delay was found to be the land acquisition factor. This highlights the critical land ownership and acquisition issues that are prevailing in the city. Additionally, other factors that contribute to delay include contractors’ lack of expertise, haphazard underground utilities (line services), and re-designing. It is concluded that the majority of project delays were caused from the owner’s side as compared to contractors, consultants, and other project’s stakeholders. This finding matched with the research findings of the Gulf Countries Construction (GCC) industry’s literature. This study fills an important practice and research gap for improving the efficiency in delivering infrastructure projects in the holy city of Mecca and Gulf countries at large.

scholarly journals THE SPECIAL UTILIZATION OF CASTLES IN TOURISM – FESTIVALS IN THE HERITAGE SITES

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-98
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Optimal Form ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Built Heritage

In Hungary, there are a large number of built heritage. Of these, this current research focuses on the castles. Nowadays castles can be filled with many functions, such as schools, common lodging houses, hospitals or residential buildings. The most optimal form of usage is tourism utilization, such as museums, hotels, event venues. Organizing festivals is also a tool for this, it generates revenue for the castle, and makes it widely available to enhance the visibility and acquaintance of the venues. A festival is also intended to suffice the needs of tourists and local people, and these castles provide a suitable scene for this. Thus, the current research aims to present and evaluate the form of utilization of castles in which festivals are organized. The study aims to answer the research question through several case studies, that festivals contribute to the survival of the castles as they generate revenue and create more attractive destinations. To answer this question, a primary research method is needed where interviews with the owners of the venues and the festival directors come to the fore. In addition, the available secondary data are required that numerical support the generated revenue and number of visitors alike. In the end, the research will be carried out where both the utilization of the castles and the festival tourism will be of paramount importance and a joint impact assessment will be implemented.

Urbanization in Saudi Arabia and sustainability challenges of cities and heritage sites: heuristical insights

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Alqahtany ◽  
Sreejith Aravindakshan
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the trajectories of the urbanization process in Saudi Arabia in its regional context from the unification of the country by King Abdul Aziz Al Saud in 1932 to the present time, and the urbanization impact on the status and management of cultural heritage in the Kingdom.Design/methodology/approachOur study design integrated a well-articulated theoretical frame of sustainability to gain a heuristical understanding of urbanization in Saudi Arabia, and its link to cultural heritage. The methodological approach was mixed in nature involving (1) literature search and review, (2) analysis of public documents and databases, (3) analysis of photographs and (4) expert interviews.FindingsOne of the most obvious findings reached in this study is that there is considerable trade-off between heritage site conservation, population and economic demand for increased urbanization. Hence, with increasing urbanization pressures, the value of the heritage site may be rethought based on Saudi Arabia's economic and cultural conservation perspectives.Research limitations/implicationsSince our data are mostly of textual narrative in origin, precise predictions were difficult or impossible for many reasons such as non-linearity, and non-equilibrium dynamics, context and scale dependence as well as the historical exigency of urbanization. However, the same theoretical framework can be applied to appropriate longitudinal/ time series data for predictive analyses, which can be taken up as a future research agenda.Originality/valueThis paper analyzes the urbanization process and sustainability challenges of cultural heritage sites employing a mixed methodological approach, embedded in a holistic theoretical framework of sustainability.

scholarly journals Reconstruction of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Context of Ancient Objects in Time and Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 604
Author(s):  
Lukáš Brůha ◽  
Josef Laštovička ◽  
Tomáš Palatý ◽  
Eva Štefanová ◽  
Přemysl Štych
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
3D Visualization ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Levels Of Detail ◽  
Terrain Models ◽  
3D Data ◽  
Very Large Datasets ◽  
Surrounding Landscape ◽  
Changes Over Time

Diachronic studies play a key role in the research and documentation of cultural heritage and its changes, ranging from architectural fragments to landscape. Regarding the reconstructions of lost cultural heritage sites, the determination of landscape conditions in the reconstructed era goes frequently unheeded. Often, only ruins and detached archeological artefacts remain of the built heritage. Placing them correctly within the reconstructed building complex is of similar importance as placing the lost monument in the context of the landscape at that time. The proposed method harmonizes highly heterogeneous sources to provide such a context. The solution includes the fusion of referential terrain models of different levels of detail (LODs) as well as the fusion of diverse 3D data sources for the reconstruction of the built heritage. Although the combined modeling of large landscapes and small 3D objects of a high detail results in very large datasets, we present a feasible solution, whose data structure is suitable for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of landscapes and also provides a smooth and clear 3D visualization and inspection of detailed features. The results are demonstrated in the case study of the island monastery, the vanished medieval town of Sekanka, and the surrounding landscape, which is located in Czechia and was the subject of intensive changes over time.

An Introduction to the Stone Age Archaeology of the Polihali Dam Area, Mokhotlong District, Lesotho

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Tim Forssman ◽  
Matt Lotter ◽  
John Parkington ◽  
Jeremy Hollmann ◽  
Jessica Angel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Eastern Highlands

Abstract Much of Lesotho’s cultural heritage has been studied as a result of dam developments. Where dams have been built, heritage studies have provided crucial data for improving our understanding of local archaeological sequences. Ahead of the construction of the Lesotho Highland Development Authority’s (LHDA) new Polihali Dam in Lesotho’s Mokhotlong District and following the recommendations of a heritage assessment (CES 2014), a large-scale five-year cultural heritage management program was launched in 2018 that seeks to excavate and mitigate a number of heritage sites. Here, we provide the background to one of southern Africa’s largest heritage mitigation contracts by contextualising the current research program. We then present the archaeology of Lesotho’s eastern highlands basalt region using data collected during the inception phase of this program. The findings challenge current preconceived notions about the sparsity of archaeological remains for this region.

scholarly journals The Dutch Triple Heritage Helix. A working model for the protection of the landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia van Dockum ◽  
Leonard de Wit
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The State ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Working Model ◽  
Central Lead

In the Netherlands the state does not take direct responsibility for the care of archaeological monuments. Instead, the emphasis is on supporting private owners to look after monuments in their care. This article focuses on the range of non-governmental trust organisations that have been established to care for built heritage in the Netherlands. One such organisation is the Utrechts Landschap Foundation, established in 1927, which has recently championed what can be termed a 'triple heritage helix' to describe the role played by the foundation, public government and civil society. In this triple heritage helix model, all three partners have a role, but Utrechts Landschap is the central, lead partner that provides the long-term vision, skills and administration to ensure that the heritage sites under the trust's care are managed and protected effectively.

scholarly journals STRATEGIES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF BUILT HERITAGE LINKED TO MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING. CASE STUDY OF THE SAN ROQUE NEIGHBORHOOD, CUENCA, ECUADOR

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W5 ◽  
pp. 755-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Achig-Balarezo ◽  
L. Vázquez ◽  
M. G. Barsallo ◽  
J. C. Briones ◽  
J. Amaya
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Strategic Factor ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
And Control

The rehabilitation of heritage sites, as well as the implementation of monitoring and control strategies is fundamental for its conservation. In the case of Cuenca, a World Heritage City, a maintenance campaign in the traditional neighborhood of San Roque was carried out in 2014. The objective was to undertake maintenance actions on roofs and façades as well as on elements at risk. The campaign process was developed keeping in mind the cycle or phases of preventive conservation: anamnesis, diagnosis, therapy and control (ICOMOS, 2003). At the end of the maintenance campaign an impact assessment was undertaken and monitoring tools were handed out to the community in order to strengthen the citizen participation in the preservation of built heritage. The experience of the maintenance campaign unveiled a series of lessons that have been evaluated in the present investigation, being the main objective the strengthening of the processes of governance and documentation through the formulation of strategies inherent to the maintenance of heritage buildings. In this process it is shown that the participation of citizens is a strategic factor for the sustainable development of maintenance campaigns, which allow for the preservation of historical sites for future generations.

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