Published date: May 03 2018

Journal Title: KnE Engineering

Issue title: Postmodern Urban and Regional Planning in Iraq

Pages: 149–166

DOI: 10.18502/keg.v3i4.2167

N Hussein Abid Aownnidahussein@yahoo.com

H Ali Meer

Over the past 60 years, towns and cities were under a great transformation. The city has become less defined through its physical boundaries with a development 0f suburban area with a huge number 0f separate houses. The City is the essence 0f our civilization and it provides a frame for social life. Gardens, streets planner, and yard brings people together well and gives them a chance 0f social encounters, which have economic also. Friendly and beautiful cities can bring life insurance to people in urban areas. The ”New Urbanism” is the most influential planning movements since the late twentieth century. The planning ideas and successful projects 0f new urbanism lead us to better living conditions. Under the influence 0f globalization, the urban construction
0f cities inevitably influenced by the impact 0f new ideas and at the same time, during the process 0f construction emerged some urban problems. Activities in the city need a particular place or space that can be done by the coordinate 0f that space. The place or the land is the most important factor in shaping the physical
environment and the context 0f urban activities. It has always been regarded as a base for urban construction by planners. Planning 0f land use ”as the core 0f urban planning” plays an important role in the spatial and temporal organization 0f cities. The study 0f new urbanism principles in land use planning in urban areas is based on its benefits on planning at all levels 0f the study 0f human communities 0f mass and streets in
the regions and cities. Over the past decades, the city 0f Baghdad has grown rapidly in a random and uncontrolled way and a kind 0f unsustainable urbanization has taken place.

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