The Dark Sides of the Modern Urban Design in the Persian Gulf Region

摘要

The Persian Gulf region grows rapidly due to the revenues gains from huge oil and gas recourses exploitations. This growth is sensible in all aspects of peoples' life as well as in the design of urban areas. Taking the city of Bandar Abbas as a case study, this paper investigates modern urban fabric and vernacular urban fabrics by using thermal comfort and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods. The results of this study imparts that modern urban fabrics are worse than vernacular urban fabric in term of thermal comfort. The results are beneficial for urban designers and policy makers of all countries of the Persian Gulf regions.