The Roll of Ecological Approaches in Determining Sustainable Development in Coastal Cities: the case study of NOOR city

This research has attempted ecological approach in the coastal city development. The first step taken was studying urban development pathology. The damages occured to the coastal ecosystem were determined as being caused by city planners negligenc. This was followed by investigating if city planning have had any positive effects on urban development as this approaches was considered significant due to certain available condidtions on the site. This research has discovered that authorities can still afford removing problems of NOOR ecological city. Further, it was revealed that, if ecological factors –ecological footprint decrease, variation in activity, vertical development in the peripheral district and promoting of social- economic condition of citizenship – would all be in scope of near future.