التوسع الحضري و التنمية المكانية المستدامة لمدينة الكوفة

Abstract EN

Urban growth and the expansion of cities' sizes have led to unsustainable urban patterns in addition to a deterioration in the urban environment, causing urban, economic, social and environmental problems for the medium and long term of the city, and the problems in the urban environment made development projects for cities difficult to achieve and were faced with functional and demographic obstacles affecting and of great complexity, Today's challenges of cities are represented in their overcrowding and lack of the most basic services such as infrastructure and decent housing.

The research problem is (that the growing urban expansion of the city of Kufa has had negative effects in providing the appropriate environment to achieve sustainable spatial development in its various dimensions) and to solve this problem the researcher assumed (that planning The advance in determining the trends of urban expansion has a direct relationship in embodying the contents and dimensions of the sustainability of its development spatially.

And the most important conclusions (that the quantitative value of urban expansion came below the hypothetical average, the lowest level of acceptance, which is the value of m Minority reflects that there is a defect in the response of urban expansion to the requirements of the city’s growth, and the most important recommendations (the need for development plans, investments and projects parallel to the rapid urban growth and in line with the urban expansion in the city).