Roads Naming Strategies Platform Launched in Dubai

Dubai Street Naming Committee promotes neighborhood participation by launching ‘Roads Naming Strategies platform’

– The platform permits the general public to recommend names for roads that replicate nationwide identification and heritage, additional narrating tales of the previous 

– It’s going to additional reinforce the revival of heritage meanings and designations, highlighting Dubai’s nationwide identification and reflecting its historical past, legacy, and values

Al-Hajri:

• “The platform showcases our efforts in reviving nationwide meanings and nomenclature of Dubai, additional serving as a testomony to its historical past, values, cultural, civilizational, and social wealth and in line with its future progress.” 
• “The platform serves as a digital system that permits the general public to take part in proposing names for roads and streets throughout Dubai that replicate our nationwide identification and inform tales of our previous.”

Dubai Street Naming Committee, the entity that designates names for roads and streets in Dubai, launched the platform Road Designation Proposal beneath the supervision of Dubai Municipality. The platform goals to allow public participation in proposing names for roads and streets throughout Dubai. That is in step with the Committee’s targets of preserving the legacy of the previous, selling civilization, staying up to date with the Emirate’s future growth, and highlighting its achievements of excessive worth.

H.E. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director Basic of Dubai Municipality, Chairman of the Dubai Street Naming Committee, said that the platform is a part of the efforts and plans of the Built-in Committee to advertise neighborhood participation in submitting proposals for naming roads and streets throughout varied areas of the Emirate. That is in accordance with permitted classifications that purpose to revive heritage names, spotlight nationwide identification and social and cultural traits that replicate the emirate’s historical past, heritage, values, social and cultural wealth, and consistency with future growth and orientation.

Al Hajri stated: “The brand new platform serves as a digital system, permitting the general public to recommend names for streets and roads throughout Dubai, protecting in thoughts a complete methodology and particular standards that displays our identification and interrelationship between previous, current and way forward for Dubai. It goals to revive useful historic meanings, heritage, and concrete monuments, in step with Dubai’s main world place and popularity, additional consolidating various areas of the Emirate within the minds of current and future generations.”

Street Naming Classifications 

Moreover, the committee has devised a way for proposing names based mostly on particular classifications that can encourage the names for every space. These classifications embody names linked to Arabic and Islamic design and structure, together with names related to artwork, tradition and Arabic poetic prosody.

It’s going to additionally embody names of pure phenomena, native vegetation, timber, flowers, marine, and wild vegetation, together with the names of untamed and marine birds. Moreover, it’s going to additionally cowl names associated to environmental sustainability, ships, marine instruments, fishing, winds, and rain.

Then again, the classifications will additional embody names of squares, forts, historical castles, archaeological websites, native and historical jewellery, and horse and Arabian camel names and descriptions. It’s going to additionally embody names of kinds of palms and date palms, names of farming and agriculture professions, in addition to these impressed by industrial and artisanal professions and their instruments, names of gem stones, and names associated to innovations and fashionable expertise.

The general public can contribute by proposing names for roads and streets via the platform hyperlink: https://roadsnaming.ae. 

New Names for Roads in Al-Khawaneej 2 Space

Furthermore, the committee has accomplished naming roads within the Al-Khawaneej 2 space in its trial part, which included names impressed by native timber, vegetation, and flowers, resembling Ghaf Road, Ghaf being some of the well-known kinds of native timber, which is able to between the primary and second Al-Khawaneej areas. Moreover, different names of timber had been additionally used for streets resembling Sidr, Reehan, Faghi, Samer, and Shareesh.

The Dubai Street Naming Committee was established by Government Council Decision No. (35) of 2021 and is led by the Director Basic of Dubai Municipality. It contains the Director Basic of the Dubai Tradition and Arts Authority, CEO of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Heritage Heart, CEO of the Visitors and Roads Company on the RTA, and 4 skilled and knowledgeable representatives of Dubai residents – Mr. Abdullah Thani Al Mataroushi, Mr. Hameed Sultan Al Matyouai, Mr. Juma Bin Thalith, and Mr. Rashid Boukhash.

The committee follows a particular criterion for naming roads within the emirate, aiming to focus on Dubai’s nationwide identification by reflecting its historical past, heritage, values, and cultural, civilizational, and social richness.

The naming course of basically depends on the precept of inference, achieved by creating a way that enables individuals to attach with the psychological picture of a spot via its names, indicators, and placement particulars. With this new strategy, road names will possess a singular and distinct character, making it simpler to succeed in locations seamlessly utilizing the brand new addressing system.