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Dubai Road Naming Committee Promotes Community
Participation By Launching Roads Naming Suggestions Platform'

Jul 04, 2024 (MENAFN via COMTEX) --

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The platform enables the public to suggest names for roads that reflect national identity and heritage, further narrating
stories of the past
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It will further reinforce the revival of heritage meanings and designations, highlighting Dubai's national identity and reflecting
its history, legacy, and values

Al-Hajri:
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"The platform showcases our efforts in reviving national meanings and nomenclature of Dubai, further serving as
a testament to its history, values, cultural, civilizational, and social wealth and consistent with its future growth."
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"The platform serves as a digital system that enables the public to participate in proposing names for roads and
streets across Dubai that reflect our national identity and tell stories of our past."
Dubai, UAE, July 04, 2024 ,

Dubai Road Naming Committee, the entity that designates names for roads and streets in Dubai, launched the platform
Street Designation Proposal under the supervision of Dubai Municipality. The platform aims to enable public participation in
proposing names for roads and streets across Dubai. This is in line with the Committee's objectives of preserving the legacy
of the past, promoting civilization, staying updated with the Emirate's future development, and highlighting its achievements
of high value.
H.E. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, Chairman of the Dubai Road Naming Committee ,
stated that the platform is part of the efforts and plans of the Integrated Committee to promote community participation in
submitting proposals for naming roads and streets across various areas of the Emirate. This is in accordance with approved
classifications that aim to revive heritage names, highlight national identity and social and cultural characteristics that reflect
the emirate's history, heritage, values, social and cultural wealth, and consistency with future development and orientation.
Al Hajri said:"The new platform serves as a digital system, allowing the public to suggest names for streets and roads
across Dubai, keeping in mind a comprehensive method and specific criteria that reflects our identity and interrelationship
between past, present and future of Dubai. It aims to revive valuable historical meanings, heritage, and urban monuments,
in line with Dubai's leading global position and reputation, further consolidating diverse areas of the Emirate in the minds of
present and future generations."

Road Naming Classifications
Furthermore, the committee has devised a method for proposing names based on specific classifications that will inspire the
names for each area. These classifications include names linked to Arabic and Islamic design and architecture, along with
names associated to art, culture and Arabic poetic prosody.

It will also encompass names of natural phenomena, local plants, trees, flowers, marine, and wild plants, along with the
names of wild and marine birds. Additionally, it will also cover names related to environmental sustainability, ships, marine
tools, fishing, winds, and rain.

On the other hand, the classifications will further include names of squares, forts, ancient castles, archaeological sites, local
and ancient jewelry, and horse and Arabian camel names and descriptions. It will also include names of types of palms and
date palms, names of farming and agriculture professions, as well as those inspired by industrial and artisanal professions
and their tools, names of gemstones, and names related to inventions and modern technology.
The public can contribute by proposing names for roads and streets through the platform link:

New Names for Roads in Al-Khawaneej 2 Area
Moreover, the committee has completed naming roads in the Al-Khawaneej 2 area in its trial phase, which included names
inspired by local trees, plants, and flowers, such as Ghaf Street, Ghaf being one of the most famous types of local trees,
which will between the first and second Al-Khawaneej areas. Additionally, other names of trees were also used for streets
such as Sidr, Reehan, Faghi, Samer, and Shareesh.
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