التحليل المكاني للواقع السكني وخصائصه الجغرافية في مدينة كربلاء لعام 2015 م

Abstract EN

Residential use in the city of Karbala represents a dimension of spatial disparity, and a distinct and influential urban appearance in its internal structure.

It is an essential part of the urban fabric, and occupies a larger area than other urban uses within the city.

The research aims to shed light on the housing reality in the city of Karbala and the housing deficit that the city suffers as a result of the large population increase that the city is witnessing for several reasons in order to achieve the requirements of adequate housing for the population and to end the housing deficit in the city.

The holy city of Karbala was characterized as one of the attractive areas for population due to the presence of the two holy shrines of Imam Hussein and his brother Al-Abbas (peace be upon them).

The field study came to provide a spatial analysis of the housing reality in the city of Karbala for the year 2015 AD, and to figure out the housing deficit and the accumulation of this deficit.

The results of the field study showed that there is a clear quantitative housing deficit in the city as a result of an increase in the number of residents in a higher or greater way than the increase in housing units in the city.

That family division is an action that the housing deficit cannot contribute to decrease, as married youth remained with their families, where the percentage of double housing was about 44.5 % of the families included in the field survey, in addition to the revealing of several other problems faced by the housing sector.

The research suggested the need to work on enacting legislations that limits the flow of immigration from other governorates to the city of Karbala and rural migration, and providing the requirements for the construction of housing units such as building materials and the distribution of lands (aka Arasat) and encouraging it, as well as the contribution of building of low-cost homes and selling them at reasonable prices in order to establish new residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city.