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Another major industry will be bio-agricultural sciences specialising in
improving in the production of hybrid date palm species: the common
and ubiquitous “Phoenix dactylifera”.

Both the plantation of “Phoenix dactylifera”, and a bio-agricultural uni-
versity for the study of Arabian plants, will also be incorporated into
the Medina design. The major nearby settlements of Madinat Zayed,
Mirfa, Ghayathi, Liwa, Ruwais, Sila'a, and Delma, are proposed to pro-

vide agricultural input into the new city bio-agricultural business.

The Desert Western region of Al Gharbia is a harsh and dry landscape
with high temperatures typical of this part of the Arabian peninsula.
Designing an Aerotropolis for this region is unlike that of designing a Ebenezer Howard Model: Freestone, R, 1989, p.14, Model Com-

city in a temperate region where water is abundant, and climate the munities: The garden city movement in Australia. Nelson.
climate is mild for it’s citizens. One of the considerations of designing
the layout of the Medina is to consider the overall orientation.

There are at least two major considerations to be taken into account
here. The first is the orientation of the airport and airport runways
themselves. The second is the orientation for built environment to
maximise overshadowing to the pedestrian streets. If we consider the

airport and it’s runway, this is largely a fixed orientation based on cli-
matic factors such as wind. When considering primarily land uses such
as residential and business parks, we can use the Masdar City model

and aim to design buildings with overshadowed pedestrian streets in as
much as away from North-South arrangement as possible, with the ide-
al being North-East, or North-Western arrangement.

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