Published date: May 03 2018

Journal Title: KnE Engineering

Issue title: Postmodern Urban and Regional Planning in Iraq

Pages: 362–374

DOI: 10.18502/keg.v3i4.2180

A Khalil Ebraheempowderammer@yahoo.com

A Hasan Jasim

M Abdul Jalil Ebraheem

The intellectual transformations that followed the Second World War sought to find radical solutions to the challenges faced by the world city in the reconstruction process and how to transform the spatial dimension of these cities into a productive component of production rather than a challenge to the weak potential of the spatial plan. The intellectual movement known as postmodernism, affecting on all the concepts at this stage as an intellectual reaction to what the global system of challenges of capitalism and its effects on the restriction of building the spatial dimension, both within cities or outside it, which included the basic concepts that dealt with the spatial plan and what the principles according to the spatial dimension, research, trying to detect the effects
of this movement and its relationship to dimension and strategic thinking to develop structural plans in Iraq.

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