ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a series of case studies of contemporary planning work going on throughout the Middle East. It deals with three case studies of new town planning in Algeria, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The Algerian study concentrate on regional structural circumstances from which a new town will be developed close to the country’s Tunisian border. The Qatari and Emirates studies meanwhile, look in more detail at the physical planning proposals made for two settlements of very varied size. The chapter also presents the subregional setting of the steelworks and the location of the new town of Sidi Ammar which is being built nearby, and their relationship to Annaba, the chief regional centre of eastern Algeria. Situated in the south east of Qatar, some 5 kilometres from the country’s only major deep water harbour and facilities, Umm Said is located on the edge of Sabkha Flats comprised of a thin sand top surface with a stone desert base.
