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The Modern Planning of Tripoli: A critical analysis of the Libyan capital’s 20th century masterplans using GIS

Part 2 Dissertation 2017
Mahmud Tantoush
 Manchester School of Architecture Manchester | UK
This dissertation investigates the impacts of regime change and political events on the urban morphology of Tripoli. Such events resulted in the importation of western planners during the monarchy of Idris and socialist planners during Gaddafi’s “Jamahiriya”.

A new methodology utilising Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was adopted involving the computerisation of masterplans and maps and quantitative computational analysis, creating a narrative of planning and urban change.
Mahmud Tantoush
Tutor(s)
Lukasz Stanek
Mr Andrew Crompton
2017
The Three “generational” masterplans of Tripoli – 1968, 1980 and 2000 masterplans (left to right)
Tripoli’s geographic location – generated using opensource GIS data.
Exploring Tripoli’s spatial history with GIS – converting masterplans to georeferenced vector data
Tripoli’s urban development – 1930 to 2006
Impact of 1968 masterplan on residential surface development in 1980.
Gaddafi (pictured on billboard) as the nation builder - large housing projects imported from the Eastern-bloc
Visual output of GIS algorithm exploring distribution of educational facilities in the 1980 masterplan.
Gaddafi’s compound (Bab al-Azizia) in violation of 1968 masterplan proposals and splitting the city in half.
Example of masterplan computerisation – 2000 masterplan transformed into georeferenced vector geometries and tagged data such as land use and road type.
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