Al-Faisal Innovation District: New urban renovation tools for old Arabian city centres

This paper draws on recent conceptual approaches of economic and urban growth, in which the accumulation of knowledge is the fundamental driving force behind growth. From different aspects, this paper will go through a comparative study between Innovation Districts and Science & Technology Parks models both have so many shared characteristics and features. But still, a few amounts to studies were dealing with the impact of these two models on cities reform and development strategies. The paper is divided into two parts:\n\n- Part one: a group theoretical hypotheses and arguments for answer a group of raising questions like: How suitable are the models of Innovation Districts, Science and Technology Parks or creative hub for the case of Arabian grand cities? Part two: a case study for Al-Faisal Innovation District proposal, which have been approved by the stack holders and local government for action plan development stage.