The impacts of Urban Sprawl on Housing: The Case Study of Dammam City

Instructions:

- It's Ph.D. proposal so I want it to be high professional.

- My research related to Dammam City in Saudi Arabia.

- My research focus on the relation between the urban sprawl, city growth and the effect of that on housing. So try to create the idea of that.

- I have researched for the most important files that could be used for literature review section, please check them in attachment files and use all of them I have to include min. 10 resources check attachment zip file (Resource).

- Check (how to write proposal) file to know the standard of my proposal that I want you to follow it with all sections.

- Add more words (pages) for literature review section "not like the number mentioned in the standard" and do same thing with other section if needed.

- Start the literature review with writing about the files that related to Dammam city.

- Max number of pages 10, including cover and references pages.

A proposal should include the following:

1. Indicative title of the topic area

This should accurately reflect what it is that you want to study and the central issues that you are going to address.

2. Context / rationale / why is this study important? (300 - 500 words)

Introduce the general area of study and identify the theoretical context within which your research will be developed by discussing the discipline(s) and or field/s of study relevant to your research. This means outlining the key theoretical area(s) you will draw upon to enable you to find out what it is that you want to know (e.g. underpinned from the social sciences; arts and humanities; life, health and physical sciences). In addition, you will need to contextualise your research in terms of the literature of your subject area. What we are looking for here is an indication that you understand and have done some research into the wider theoretical context.

Developing the context is just one part of this section; you are building a case / rationale for the study area. Why is this study important, which theoretical areas support this? Can you identify any gaps in current understanding that help you build the case for this research study?
In this section you could outline the main aim of the study (also see section 4).

3. Literature review (approximately 700 - 900 words)

Here are demonstrating that you are aware of what has been and what is currently being written about your topic (i.e. the academic literature, Government documents, media coverage). We are looking for you to make links between a body of literature and your proposed area of study and in so attempt to identify any gaps in knowledge. A PhD thesis arises from original research leading to new knowledge or a significant contribution to existing knowledge. If, at this stage, you have some thoughts on how your research is likely to contribute to knowledge then include details in your proposal. This section should include citations which are compiled into a reference list at the end of the document (see point 7).

4. The research questions or hypotheses (approximately 200 words)

Having told us what you want to study and why, and then illustrated these ideas with reference to a body of literature, the next task is to distil your ideas into a tentative set of research questions, hypotheses, aims and objectives (as per the underpinning discipline requires) that are manageable and achievable within a normal PhD timeframe (see 6 below).

5. Research approach/ methodologies / methods (approximately 400 words)

There will be many research approaches open to you. In your proposal, suggest the methodological approach that you might take and make a reasoned case as to why the research questions you have posed are best addressed by this approach. You might also suggest what methods you would use to generate data that can help you address your research questions.

6. Timescale/research planning (approximately 200 words)

A full time PhD should take three years to complete, although you may require more time to acquire the relevant skills prior to commencing your research. Part time study will take longer (up to five - six years). Within this timeframe, you will need to demonstrate your awareness of time management and planning (e.g. length of time for primary research/ fieldwork).

7. Reference List (at least 10 - 20 references)

Please include a reference list of all the sources that you referred to in the text using a recognised referencing style appropriate to your discipline (e.g. Harvard or Vancouver for Sciences).

There a number of books widely available that may help in preparing your research proposal (as well as in completing your research degree), here are a few to point you in the right direction:

Bell, J (2010, 5th edn) Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-time Researchers in Education & Social Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Baxter, L, Hughes, C and Tight, M (2007, 3rd edn) How to Research, Buckingham: Open University Press.

Philips, E and Pugh, D (2005, 4th edn) How to get a PhD: A Handbook for Students and their Supervisors, Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Resources

1. Eighty years of urban growth and socioeconomic trends in Dammam Metropolitan Area, Saudi Arabia by Abdulkarim K. Alhowaish.

2. Impacts of large-scale residential projects on urban sustainability in Dammam Metropolitan Area, Saudi Arabia by Faez Saad Al-Shihri

3. Urban growth management-the Saudi experience by Saleh Al-Hathloul and Muhammad Aslam Mughal.

4. ontrolling urban sprawl: Some experiences from Liverpool by Chris Couch and and Jay Karecha.

5. Does Sprawl Cost Us All?: Isolating the Effects of Housing Patterns on Public Water and Sewer Costs by Cameron Speir & Kurt Stephenson

6. Understanding housing sprawl: the case of Flanders, Belgium aby  Pascal De Decker

7. HOUSING, SPRAWL, AND THE USE OF DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES: THE CASE OF THE INLAND EMPIRE by RANDY BLUFFSTONE, MATT BRAMAN, LINDA FERNANDEZ, TOM SCOTT and PEI-YI LEE.

8. THE IMPACT OF URBAN SPRAWL ON SOCIAL SEGREGATION IN BEIJING AND A LIMITED ROLE FOR SPATIAL PLANNING by PENGJUN ZHAO

9. Do Mexican Cities Sprawl? Housing-Finance Reform and Changing Patterns of Urban Growth by Paavo Monkkonen

10. Some realities about sprawl and urban decline by Anthony Downs

11. SpeCifiC iSSueS of urbAn SprAwL in buLgAriA by Aleksandar D. SLAev and Atanas KovAChev.

12. Urban Sprawlby Thomas J. Nechyba and Randall P. Walsh. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3216798