Abstract
Shaikh Zayed Housing Program “SZHP” is the governmental program that is responsible for local housing in the UAE. The program’s main aim is to offer a variety of housing services such as loans, grants, and ready-to-move houses. However, both the continuously growing urban population and liveability challenges are impeding the program to meet its goal. As mentioned on SZHP’s official website “We should continue to explore new ways to establish informed dialogue with different groups of society and to ensure adequate housing for national families, in achieving stability and community development by meeting future needs” (SZHP, 2022 ). Accordingly, this research highlights some of the major challenges that face the local housing program in the UAE specially SZHP by analyzing the current housing practices and policies in the country and using the smart city growth principles to understand the new smart urbanization principles that can be adopted and applied in the UAE to reduce and minimize some of the housing challenges. Moreover, a study case for one of the recently developed local neighborhoods “Al Raqaib-2” will be done to address the area of development and study the possibilities to apply some of the smart urban planning principles in the area to enhance the neighborhood liveability and reduce the housing challenges.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
City planning--United Arab Emirates; Urbanization--United Arab Emirates; Sustainable development--United Arab Emirates
Publication Date
2025
Document Type
Thesis
Student Type
Graduate
Degree Name
Professional Studies (MS)
Department, Program, or Center
Graduate Programs & Research
Advisor
None provided
Recommended Citation
Alblooki, Shaima Abdulla, "How smart city growth principles can be adopted in the UAE to solve the local housing problems?" (2025). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
https://repository.rit.edu/theses/12149
Campus
RIT Dubai
Plan Codes
PROFST-MS
