ABSTRACT
While planning and design is distinguished as a practice that significantly contributes to sustaining the unsustainable, it still challenges all the differences that generally exist in people's total lack of awareness of future actions and related expectations. Amos Rapoport distinguished between designed and non-designed spaces. In his view, all designed spaces are basically human-made, and design means making order based on a set of rules to reflect some ideal environment. Henri Lefebvre's central argument, in The production of space, was that space is not produced by architects but is a social product. In most schools of planning and architecture around the Arab world, present teaching approaches do not support learning contexts for interactive learning methods but adopt their own individual agenda. The clear conflicts embedded in defining good quality for planners and architects attest to the fact that there is no exact style or quality for all practices, but that a reactionary taste reigns.
