Abstract
Dubai was developed from Khor Dubai and the city always focuses on the development of waterfront as a public space. The urban waterfront in Dubai is a highly visible public space for recreational activities but also as an urban landscape for placemaking, environmental pollution reduction, and transportation. The objective of this study is to explore the direction of future development of the Dubai Water Canal. By analyzing the characteristics and behavioural patterns of canal users using a post-occupancy evaluation survey, the study presents the management plan necessary to improve the facility. As a methodology, Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) with two-step cluster analysis was used with SPSS Statistics version 20.0. Dubai Water Canal users were classified into friend-based, family-based, and individual-based clusters to investigate the differences in satisfaction levels and perception between clusters. The survey included questions on accessibility, convenience of use, facility management status, safety, and landscape management. The result had shown that family-only parking, convenient pedestrian walkway, signage/distance marker, and pocket parks as green buffer zones are needed to increase the level of satisfaction. Factors to enhance users’ satisfaction comprised 1) efficient road system for light exercise, 2) efficient information signage, 3) convenient pedestrian roads with nighttime lighting system, 4) strict separation of pedestrians and cyclists, and 5) nature-friendly landscape and landscape improvement. This study intended to extract elements for future design and management of urban open space projects, similar to the Dubai Water Canal.
Highlights
Dubai was developed from Dubai Creek area, which was known as Khor Dubai in early 20th century (Elsheshtawy, 2009; Boussaa, 2003)
The identity of port city had started from the time of Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum (1912–1958), the late father of current ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, since he had led the urbanization of Khor Dubai as waterfront development with residential and commercial areas including hotels, resorts, and markets
The objective of this study was to analyze the results of the survey on the satisfaction of Dubai Water Canal as a public space to find out which factors should be
Summary
Dubai was developed from Dubai Creek area, which was known as Khor Dubai in early 20th century (Elsheshtawy, 2009; Boussaa, 2003). Because of its origin of urbanization and historical background of waterfront trade, Dubai always focus on the development of waterfront as a public space intensively (Krane, 2009; Nassar et al, 2014). The identity of port city had started from the time of Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum (1912–1958), the late father of current ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, since he had led the urbanization of Khor Dubai as waterfront development with residential and commercial areas including hotels, resorts, and markets. The rapid development of Dubai was researched in academic papers many times with focus on conspicuous consumption communities (Acuto, 2010; Pacione, 2005), but no research was found how satisfied Dubai residents are. Business Bay development, which integrated with Dubai Water Canal as a public space, is to generate a new central business district in Dubai. Dubai’s resilient development is still questionable, but it rebuilds the reputation to attract the significant number of tourists and capitalists again to Dubai (El Amrousi et al, 2018)
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