the vectorial digital fingerprint of the city functioning as a decision support tool for local authorities

Abstract

Through witnessing the life of a city, the main core always seems to grow prosperously at first, until it reaches a certain degree where its resources are exhausted and can’t provide nor invest in any future growing parts and that’s why we notice the edges of cities always being outcasted compared to the city headquarters, as a result of this act, suburbs start surfacing, by the citizens, in a detached and an unplanned behavior, causing imbalance to the main system since the city ends up claiming it as a part of it is growing on its territory. as the main core barely survives while the suburbs grow even further, the city loses its definition as a unit and acts as broken fragments unable to manage the main core nor its surrounding areas, which leads to the death of the city itself, a topic portrayed by jane Jacobs in her book “the death and life of great American cities” which proves the heavy weight this problem has brought to the table The main objective of the work is to predict future agglomeration heads while making a system that will link these tissues to allow the city to grow in a balanced, attached, and healthy way translated and represented in the shape of math equations and vectors which will facilitate the conversion into computer coding language and its insertion into a software As many have tried before to create an inflexible system dismissing the urbanist and architect’s role, their impulses were rejected as the humanitarian impact; mainly the constant change and time factor has not been taken into consideration. The different approach of this initiative is that the habitants are to be portrayed as the main characters, meaning creating a city that perfectly fits its own citizens as a glove and that will allow every city to have its own unique pattern, shape, and look This technique is yet to be called “the city’s own digital fingerprint’ It also keeps the city always updated on the changes occurring at every moment, preventing the waste of effort and time traditional urbanists suffered from by the time the city layout reaches the execution phase, but also plans out for the long-term efficiency of the program. Bou Saada like many other cities, has witnessed many attempts to resuscitate the city back to life, unfortunately, it only increased the gap between the existing town and the future 6 layout, even in the citizens’ speech we noticed them referring to the proper city as the old town and the new constructions as the new city which was the number one sign that the previous actions were absolute failures, nevertheless, the great increase in the unemployment rate, the decrease in the water pressure and quantity running in the oasis hence the death of the surrounding farming lands and the fast urbanization of a fertile area, all of these facts required immediate intervention in order to prevent the death of a city that was once appointed as the first capital of the country for the immense amount of potentials that it held in it .