التحضر في العراق : واقعه و مستقبله

Abstract EN

Urbanization is a characteristic of Arab society throughout history, because this phenomenon is an ancient and necessary in Iraq this research has highlighted the light on the phenomenon through the statement of the reality of urbanization in Iraq with an attempt to explore the future of this phenomenon through the analysis of tables that are set up based on the population projection, which was conducted based on the number of the population in 2007, and the population census of 1997, In this research we reached the results of that what Iraq is going through is not a civilized real but civilized false, especially if urbanization in Iraq was fast and explosive as he was not a gradual and the result of providing work for the middle class as in the West, but the impact of immigration mostly from the countryside into the city.

As the pattern of urbanization in refers to Urbanization rat rises between (60-80), while Baghdad represents the center as urbanization rate exceeded (80 %), any excessive urbanization.