The escalating need for modern services in the cities nowadays due to the extensive use of cars and the great increase in the human concentration and density and by far the increase in real estate values greatly instigated these changes. Nevertheless, the basic urban tissue did not assimilate all these changes in a manner that may allow the functions expected of them to be executed. This resulted in the failure of a portion of the services as well as in the change of the nature of the urban tissue in haphazard way during this particular period. Thus, the qualitative environmental level in the area was greatly affected. The city of Mukalla, which is the capital of the governorate of Hadhramout (Yemen), is situated on the coast of the Arabian Sea on longitude (49.23) East and latitude (14.39) North. Throughout many a consecutive period in time, the city had passed through many variation that changed its features and its basic nature to great extent. Therefore, this study tackles the most important problems the area is suffering from, for the sake of outlining the nature of these problems and attempting by far to give general planning and designing recommendations for the development of the area based upon the methodical assessment of the elements of the urban tissue in the old sector of Mukalla.