خصائص و محددات التنمية العمرانية بمدينة صنعاء

Sanaa or San a is Yemen s political capital and largest city. Its population was 1.563.325 according to official census 2004 and its estimated population in 2010 is 2.079.158. Sanaa is located in Sanaa Province, on a plateau northeast of the port of A1 Hudaydah. It is the commercial center of a fruit-growing region, and site to the first university in Yemen, Sanaa University, which was established in 1970. The city first became an important center in the 4th century AD, in the kingdom of an ancient Arabian People, the Himyarites. The city was included in the Muslim caliphate in 628, and it came under the control of the Ottoman Empire in the 1870s. Formerly the capital of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), Sanaa became the political capital of the Republic of Yemen when the YAR merged with the People s Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1990; Aden was made the economic capital. It is divided into two sections with the junction formed by the palace of the former imams, or rulers, of Yemen. The eastern section, knows as the old city, has several mosques and a market where jewelry, silver and leather goods, silks, and carpets are made and sold. The western section is largely residential. Finally, this paper used a descriptive-analytical method to review and analyze the general characteristics and development restrictions in the city of Sanaa. In addition, the paper used a development method to review the historical physical development of the city. Moreover, the field study method was used in order to observe accurately the present status in the city.