ASSESSING BIOPHILIC CRITERIA IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS OF SAUDI ARABIA: A CASE STUDY OF THE DIPLOMATIC QUARTER IN RIYADH CITY
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Abstract
One of the most important modern approaches used in urban development to achieve the principles and requirements of sustainability is the biophilic concept. There is a high recognition of the social and environmental benefits of connecting people with nature. Within the framework of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)’s endeavor to successfully achieve the 2030 Vision and the element of sustainability in urban life in residential neighborhoods, this study aimed to study and evaluate the elements of achieving the biophilic approach. Moreover, this study examines the biophilic design and planning criteria in the Diplomatic Quarter (DQ) in Riyadh City as a case study to determine to what extent the DQ achieves the selected biophilic approach criteria. The DQ analysis indicates that the biophilic criteria are highly achieved, which is reflected in the high percentage of green areas and parks and the great connectivity with local nature. Also, this study confirmed the importance of the biophilic concept in urban planning as a trending approach and paved the way to apply the biophilic approach in other urban communities and neighborhoods all over KSA. من أهم الأساليب الحديثة المستخدمة في التنمية الحضرية لتحقيق مبادئ ومتطلبات الاستدامة مفهوم البيوفيليک. هناک اعتراف کبير بالفوائد الاجتماعية والبيئية لربط الناس بالطبيعة. في إطار سعي المملکة العربية السعودية لتحقيق رؤية 2030 بنجاح وعنصر الاستدامة في الحياة الحضرية في الأحياء السکنية، هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى دراسة وتقييم عناصر تحقيق نهج البيوفيليا (التخطيط والتصميم المنسجم مع الطبيعة). إضافة على ذلک، تبحث هذه الدراسة في معايير التصميم والتخطيط البيوفيلي في الحي الدبلوماسي (DQ) في مدينة الرياض کدراسة حالة لتحديد إلى أي مدى يحقق DQ معايير هذا النهج المحددة. يشير تحليل هذا الحي إلى أن معايير البيوفيليک قد تحققت بشکل کبير، وهو ما ينعکس في النسبة المئوية المرتفعة للمساحات الخضراء والمتنزهات والاتصال الکبير مع الطبيعة المحلية. کما أکدت هذه الدراسة على أهمية مفهوم البيوفيليک في التخطيط الحضري کنهج شائع ومهدت الطريق لتطبيق هذا النهج في المجتمعات والأحياء الحضرية الأخرى في جميع الأحياء السکنية في المملکة العربية السعودية.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".