The research presents how various variables and factors interact and influence the urban form of the city over successive periods. Iraqi cities, like other cities, have witnessed numerous urban transformations due to the impact of several factors .One of the most prominent cities that embodied these changes is Baghdad, the current capital of Iraq, where the roots of its design and urban planning first emerged during the Abbasid period as a fortified circular city and a center of Islamic civilization, exemplifying power and authority.

The city subsequently faced a series of challenges and changes in rulers that affected its structural composition, leading to new transformations in its architectural structure influenced by the mode

أسهمت زيادة اعداد السكان في مدينة الحلة وإمكانية اقتناء السيارة لدى الكثير منهم في زيادة اعداد السيارات يوما بعد آخر ، مما أدى إلى زيادة معدل الرحلات التي يقوم بها سكان المدينة لمختلف الأغراض التي تتولد من اجلها الرحلات داخل  او خارج المدينة ، مما انعكس سلبا على شبكة الطرق والشوارع ،فأصبحت غير قادرة على أداء وظيفتها بالمستوى المطلوب ، لا سيما انها أنشأت في مرحلة سابقة لم تأخذ بعين الاهتمام الزيادة الكبير

تواجه المدن التاريخية المتضررة من النزاعات تحديات معقدة في مسارات إعادة الإعمار، تتعدَّى البُعد الفيزيائي إلى أبعاد اجتماعية ووظيفية وثقافية، مما يستدعي أطرًا تخطيطية جديدة تستوعب هذا التعقيد. تُركّز هذه الدراسة على مدينة الموصل القديمة، وتحديدًا محلة الجامع الكبير، باعتبارها نموذجًا حيًّا لموقع تراثي حضري تعرّض لتدمير واسع النطاق نتيجة الحرب، في ظل غياب رؤية تخطيطية مرنة تستوعب خصائص المكان وضرورات ا

ساهم تغير المناخ في العالم في زيادة عدد الدراسات التي تبحث في أساليب التخفيف من آثار تغير المناخ على المدن عموماً والمباني خصوصاً. تعاني المدن اليوم من مشاكل عديدة مرتبطة بهذه الظاهرة، كارتفاع درجات الحرارة والتصحر، لا سيما في المناطق الحارة والجافة، ونظرا الى التوجهات الحديثة في تصميم المباني بصورة عامة والادارية منها بصورة خاصة من تعدد الطوابق بصورة كبيرة واستعمال الاكساءات الزجاجية مما يعرض المبنى من

يعكس البيت التقليدي أهمية كبيرة من الناحية الاجتماعية والثقافية، فهو يُمثِّل انعكاسا للتراث العربي والقيم العائلية، ويبرز استمرارية التراث في مواجهة تحديات الطبيعة كما يتأثر بالعوامل البيئية والتراثية والاجتماعية. نتيجة للالتزام بالمبادئ الإسلامية، ومراعاة للمناخ المحلي والعادات والتقاليد، يتم تصميم مساحات خاصة للعائلات، مع التركيز على الخصوصية للنساء خاصة في التصميم السكني التقليدي. وتُشكِّل الوحد

Urban expansion has been identified as a causative factor for numerous environmental issues in urban areas, such as diminished air quality, elevated local temperatures, and poor water quality. This research aims to detect change in urban areas in Baghdad over a period of approximately 30 years, spanning from 1993 to 2023. The Landsat (TM5, ETM+7, and OLI8) images were used in this research. After performing image pre-processing, a supervised classification was used by the Support Vector Machine (SVM) to classify the images into five land cover classes, namely urban areas, water bodies, vegetation, soil, and wetlands. The classifications' accuracy assessment for the years 1993, 2003, 2013, and 2023 were 89%, 91%, 92%, and 90%, respectivel

The city of Derna has distinctive architectural and architectural features, like other Arab and Islamic cities in the Arab West and North Africa. Its markets and shops have taken many different forms and structural forms within the urban fabric of the central commercial zone. The meeting between the various commercial and handicraft jobs and consumers within a spatial area starting with the old markets of the dark market and the agency of the harvest and vegetable market and the mosque of the old and the square of the mosque and the Red Square and the square Kharazin. It then grew linearly towards commercial hubs that were associated with the city's expansion axes. Old markets represent the architectural and planning heritage associated

The historical center cities were exposed to change, which included its social and economical structures, Which led to sweeping changes in land use, causing a change in the result, in urban fabric and the physical structure and therefore to see visual. We have attracted these centers as a result of pressure from urban development and contemporary reflection of the agents of change which have been hit during the late period a development residential newly not sympathize mostly with the content of the historical and at the expense of removing large parts of the urban fabric and replace it with patterns of structural and styles of architecture has not been connected with reality. Which led to the loss of some historical and architec

             The centers of cities and historical quarter are exposed to a severe threat to the values of the physical and legal urban environment as a result of the value deterioration and the emergence, emergence and spread of new values on the intellectual and urban context, which generates the loss of the urban environment for its spatio-temporal continuity, flexibility, adaptation and continuity, and thus urban obsolescence, Hence the problem of the research in “the lack of comprehensiveness of studies on the phenomenon of urban obsolescence and its impact on the decline in the values of the quality of the built environment in historic

         Bringing about urban, economic, and social changes in rural areas similar to those occurring in urban areas aims to reduce urban-rural disparities by providing services in those areas, decentralizing the management of these services, expanding citizen participation in local governance (decentralized administration), and achieving comprehensive development, developing and empowering localities, and keeping pace with new transformations and their impacts on the functions of the center and localities. In fact, the lack of clarity of the role of local government in planning and managing services has hindered development plans, and declined the level of services in rural areas, and has negative

This paper deals with a dilapidated urban part with a proposal to renew it and return it to the life cycle of the city, as in the neighborhood of Al-Mdawar, adjacent to the port of Beirut. It discusses the challenges and the need for renewal, the causes of urban deterioration, the urban development approach and the history of the regulations applied to Beirut, In the studied area. It also proposes solutions to improve its lifestyle based on urban planning tools and design to achieve people's aspirations, preserve identity and rearrange its integration with the Beirut central district area.

        The research deals with the analysis of the city's commercial center using geographic information systems to solve the problem of congestion by evaluating the efficiency and adequacy of car parking lots according to local and Arab standards. Undoubtedly, the importance of car parking areas, as they are not within the desired efficiency within the city, will lead to congestion and traffic becomes very difficult. Thus, the transportation service loses its most important characteristic, which is the ease of movement. Therefore, there has become an urgent need to study and analyze it, as well as to verify the adequacy of the service, and the amount of deficit required to be provided to solve the tra

Adopting a policy of attracting investments in all countries, whether developing or developed prevailed, especially after the global crisis, and this trend is imposed by considerations of political and development (urban, economic, and social) can be formulated as a rational policy to solve many problems related to patterns of urban growth, economic, social, and including the problem of housing. As the reality of the housing sector in Iraq will require the allocation of substantial resources to promote it by the research problem is the lack of financial resources and the inability of investments to meet the various requirements including the requirements of economic sectors, particularly in the field of housing, infrastructure an

The city of Baghdad underwent various changes and developments, which significantly influenced its urban character. And other urban fabric. The most prominent changes in the architecture of that period characterized by the emergence and spread of modern architecture, it represents the period between the 1940s and the late seventies of the twentieth century, which had its many reasons and various factors that paved and supported, and even encouraged the spread of modern architecture of the world, The advanced world in the adoption of a global architecture spread in the city of Baghdad by a number of international architects and Iraqis, who came from those countries and saturation ideas

As long as the place in which a person lives has a meaning and temporal dimensions , memory is the main axis of these dimensions , today , city centers and old historical sectors of cities are abandoned , and began to turn into slums , the contradiction between old and historical sectors led cities to lose their identity while people lost their sense of belongingness to the old sectors where their ancestors used to live . The old city of Hilla used to have social , historical and cultural role on determining the identity . The study problem can be summarized as the ( lack of studies regarding the impact of historical memory related to Hilla old city on social and cultural mobility ) , the study hypothesis claims that the social , histori

The increasing efficiency of the telecommunications network in the city contributes to the increase in spatial interaction between activities (to influence and mutual influence) This study is based on the idea that the upgrading of telephone services provided to citizens are done exclusively through the growth and development of all levels of the service using advanced technologies to know the problems and appropriate solutions in short time and less cost. Thus, crystallized the objectives of the study which was built for the importance of GIS in the planning of services in general, and infrastructure services, in particular, including telephone services, which is represent a point of contact between individuals on the one hand a

The increase in the Iraqi population put pressure on urban cities as there were no new cities built since the 1980s due to the wars and the economic blockade imposed in 1991 and the deteriorating security situation after 2003, where the population in 2018 reached about forty million people. Iraq also suffered during the past decades from problems and challenges in many respects that affected the local environment, and the constructed buildings had a role in increasing these impacts, so the Ministry of Housing worked to issue the Iraqi Green Architecture Code in 2019 to reduce damage to the environment and use resources more efficiently. And because the constructed buildings were not constructed according to green standards, including Bas

  تتناول هذه الدراسة تأثير التحضُّر السريع وغير المنظم في جودة المياه الجوفية في حوض دجلة والفرات باستعمال أسس الهيدرولوجيا التطبيقية. يشكل التحضُّر، بما في ذلك زيادة الأسطح غير المنفذة، والتخلُّص غير المنظم من مياه الصرف الصحي، والاستعمال المكثَّف للأسمدة والمبيدات الزراعية، تحديات كبيرة تؤثر سلبًا في جودة المياه الجوفية. يهدف البحث إلى تحليل هذه التأثيرات واقتراح استراتيجيات مستدامة للحدِّ منها. تم

يسعى هذا البحث إلى دراسة مفهوم أنسنة المدن بوصفه أداة أساسية لتعزيز الـمشاركة المـجتمعية وتحسين نوعية الحياة في المناطق الحضرية، مع التركيز على مدينة بسـماية  في العــراق بوصفها نموذجًا عمليًا. تنبع الدراسة من إشكالية رئيسة تتعلَّق بضعف التفاعل الاجتماعي وغياب الانسجام بين الــبنية التـحتية والأنشطة المجتمعية. وتفترض أن تطبيق مبادئ أنسنة المدن يسهم في تعزيز التماسك الاجتماعي ودعم التنمية المستدامة.

Housing deprivation is an important issue that directly affects human well-being and quality of life. Access to adequate housing is a basic necessity, as recognized by many international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Despite this, many families still struggle with inadequate housing conditions, which contributes to widening social and economic disparities.

Research Problem: The study addresses the unclear understanding of the causes and factors of housing deprivation.

Research Objective: This research aims to assess the levels of housing deprivation and identify the main social, economic, and urban factors that contribute to this iss

Research studies show that urban green spaces promote physical activity, the health of urban residents, and psychological well-being. Taking the community park in Duhok city as the research object, the spatial service area in terms of accessibility of to the Community Park under the mode of pedestrian transportation is analyzed by using the network analysis service area function of the geographic information system (GIS). The results show that under the walking mode in the research area, Parks are concentrated in the north and south of the city, but community parks are few in disadvantaged neighborhoods. In addition, there is a significant disparity between the number of community parks and the number of communities. Only 11 communities

     In front of the serious deterioration of the elements of the environment, new convictions arose the need to integrate into the global environmental concerns as being one and the issue of shared responsibility and the impact of this conviction, the evolution of the environment protection law in many countries, including Algeria. Due to the multiplicity of perceptions about the environmental result of multiple scientific disciplines, the legislative concept emerged to protect the environment, which includes prevention and rational management and conservation and restoration and repair.

    Environmental planning for the various governments and countries aims to avert disasters and achieve the

In today's cities, it is easy to see large numbers of vacant lands and unused abandoned sites in downtown areas that are not only ugly but also potentially becoming fertile ground for criminal activities that endanger residents and visitors and contribute to the further degradation of neighborhoods,

can provide reuse of spaces Neglected opportunities to reshape the appearance of the city and to improve the city center for its users that the presence of many neglected sites, whether they were abandoned buildings or sites for destroyed buildings in Mosul after the war on ISIS and with large areas amid the urban fabric led to the emergence of the research problem is (lack of urban planning to reactivate abandoned sites within the ci

The arise of Islam as a multidimensional changing phenomenon with its own revolutionary and comprehensive character was inherent with a lot of alterations in social aspects , and this is explicit particularly in the scope of urban life and town planning . Essentially, Islamic style of life has its own urban identity. The urbanization process in Islam has been developed across two integrated sides, the first one concerned on ideational and theoretical aspects , while the other associated with practice .Many urban centers emerged during the Islamic era since the erection of Basrah , the first Islamic town in the middle of the 7th. centaury. Some contemporary urban concepts , both environmental and social could be noticed in Islamic

One of the most enduring expressions of urban poverty in developing countries is the proliferation of slums and informal settlements .these settlements have the most deplorable living and environmental conditions within the city and are characterized by inadequate water supply, squalid conditions of environmental sanitation .overcrowded and dilapidated habitation, hazardous location .insecure tenure and vulnerability to serious health risks among many others .its in recognition of the of the development challenges to significantly improve the lives of at least 800000 people allover the country So our objectives in this research are the ensuring of a durable improvement of housing conditions and housing environment of poor people