Assessment of urban structure for the Holy City of Al-Najaf in light of sustainability
Joint Authors
al-Jamil, Hamid Adhab Idan
Abbas, Ahmad Yahya Abd
Source
Journal of University of Babylon for Engineering Sciences
Issue
Vol. 25, Issue 4 (31 Aug. 2017), pp.1088-1100, 13 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2017-08-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The sustainability represents a measure of the efficiency for the urban structure.
Al-Najaf city is one of the most important cities in Iraq in terms of religious and historical issues.
This study tries to assess AL- Najaf Urban structure – as a sample of Iraqi cities- in the light of sustainable to investigate the extent of the application of urban sustainability principles such as how the density of the population distributed across different quarters, the land use and the hierarchy of the roads in the city.
GIS program has been adopted to represent the city and the length of roads.
The results of this study indicate that the AL- Najaf urban spatial structure is inefficient, It contains a lot of faults, the city lacks in the hierarchy of roads and land use, which spread across a large area, the population density distribution is irregular, most densities are farther away from the city center, which leads to long trips and random and irregular in it.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Jamil, Hamid Adhab Idan& Abbas, Ahmad Yahya Abd. 2017. Assessment of urban structure for the Holy City of Al-Najaf in light of sustainability. Journal of University of Babylon for Engineering Sciences،Vol. 25, no. 4, pp.1088-1100.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-923487
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Jamil, Hamid Adhab Idan& Abbas, Ahmad Yahya Abd. Assessment of urban structure for the Holy City of Al-Najaf in light of sustainability. Journal of University of Babylon for Engineering Sciences Vol. 25, no. 4 (2017), pp.1088-1100.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-923487
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Jamil, Hamid Adhab Idan& Abbas, Ahmad Yahya Abd. Assessment of urban structure for the Holy City of Al-Najaf in light of sustainability. Journal of University of Babylon for Engineering Sciences. 2017. Vol. 25, no. 4, pp.1088-1100.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-923487
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 1100
Record ID
BIM-923487