1. Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Civil & Structural
Engineering
(Semester 1 Session 20112012)
KA6414 - SUSTAINABLE
URBAN DESIGN
Supervisor:- Ir. Dr. Riza Atiq Abdullah O.K.
Rahmat
Prepared by : hassn ahmed h hassn
Matric Number: P64139

2. Waddan aljofra
Waddan is a Saharan desert oasis town in the 
northeast Fezzan region of southwest Libya. It is in
the Jufra District. Waddan is the oldest city in Jufra
District located 230 km (140 mi) south of Sirte, and
19 km (12 mi) northeast of Hun. The town is at the
crossroads of the Sirte-Waddan Road and
the Fezzan Road.
The natural springs support native date 

3. historical places in waddan

4. History of waddan
 Italian Libya
During the colonial Italian Libya period, waddan was the
administrative capital of the Italian Fezzan region,
called Territorio del Sahara Libico. waddan was the Italian
military center of southern Italian Libya, and was not part of
the national Fourth Shore territory of the Kingdom of Italy as
Italian Tripolitania and Italian Cyrenaica were.
A small Libyan Italian community of 1,156 people lived in
waddan, which was called Homs in the colonial years. In
the 1939 census they were 3% of the total population of
35,316 in the city. They disappeared from waddan after
Italy's loss of Libya in World War II. An important Libyan
Italian born in waddan was the internationally renowned
painter Mario Schifano(1934–1998).
In the 1930s the Italian government made some important
improvements to the small town, including a connection to

5. Location of Waddan on the Map

6. Accommodations in waddan
 There are 2 hotel and 3 hostels in waddan
 The hotels capacity is 45 rooms in waddan hotel,
and 33 rooms in algore hotel

7. The palm trees in waddan
The palm tree is very famous in waddan most of the
people in waddan doing farming work the best dates
in libya comes from waddan city

8. Problems in waddan roads, 
transportations and the reasons
of accidents

9. transportation problems in waddan
There are public buses to the cities of Sirte and Sabha. There is also 
a military airport located between Hun and Waddan, Al Jufra Air
Base. Hun is 240 km south of Sirte, 370 km
from Misrata and 272 km north of Sabha.

10. Roads problem in waddan
The biggest problem is that most of the road in
waddan needs to be maintane and it is one of those
reasons behinde the cars accident

11. Accident reasons in waddan
Camels one the reason of the accident in waddan

12. Infrastructure problems

13. Same problem

14. No good drainage for rain water

16. Some parks and Entertainment area
in waddan

17. this project is constructed by
Malaysian Company ( Amona
Ranhill Company)

19. Thanks for your kind
attention