Commercializing cities, challenges, and impacts-Duhok City

Joint Authors

Shingali, Hanan Muhi
Malikah, Maha J.

Source

ZANCO Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

Publisher

Salahaddin University-Erbil Department of Scientific Publications

Publication Date

2016-06-30

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

9

Main Subjects

Architecture Engineering

English Abstract

The commercialization of cities and commercial land use planning faces different problems, however; the con-dition varies from one city to another.

In Duhok city-Kurdistan Iraq, there is a rapid pace of urbanization, and increasing immigration from rural to urban areas as well as from other cities to Duhok due to various political, economic, and social issues of the population.

This situation resulted in an increased and growing need for commercial projects in urban areas of Duhok city.

The lack of clear planning scheme led to random distribution for commercial uses and commercial corridors in the city (changing the majority of residential land uses of the city Master Plan to Commercial).

Negative impacts were created affecting the urban areas and fabric of the city.

This paper targets some of these random uncontrolled changes by studying and analyzing their impacts specially on commercial uses as one important land use, based on content analysis ,maps, plans, and field sur-vey (questionnaire and in depth interviews) to investigate the research problem, reaching findings and recommendations for a more controlled planning scheme.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-786730

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