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Urban Planning in Libya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

S. K. Kezeiri
S. K. Kezeiri*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Durham
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Abstract

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Libya is one of the few countries in the Middle East to have a full coverage of Urban Plans and two generations of Master and Layout Plans have been provided by foreign consultants. The aim of urban planning in Libya is to provide urban amenities and infrastructures to all towns large or small and this article reviews how this has developed.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 14 , 1983 , pp. 9 - 15
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1983

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