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Al-Abdaly Mosque: hertiage mosque damaged in 2017 during ISIS war

SHARING OUR FINDINGS

One of the main objectives of this project is to share our findings with communities, scholars, policymakers and other stakeholders to contribute towards enriching the existing knowledge in the field and to inform Mosul recovery efforts.

This section will be kept updated with research outputs, reports and publications.

Effects of Urban Growth on Street Networks and Land Use in Mosul, Iraq: A Case Study

 Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Sarah Salh Youssef , Haneen Ali Abd.

 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq 


Abstract: 

Urban centers grow and expand gradually,  and this growth is accompanied by renewal processes for  many parts of these centers over time. Traditionally,  conditions and needs developed slowly and cities often  only changed greatly due to natural disasters or wars.  However, with the acceleration of the Industrial Revolution  and subsequent important technical transformations in  transportation modes, a large, accelerating, and  indisputable impact affected historical urban centers,  which suffered many morphological changes represented  by the intrusive opening of streets to the passage of  vehicles with varying degrees of sympathy toward the  characteristics of these centers. This research starts from  the general hypothesis that street networks affected the  changes in old urban centers represented by growth and  urbanization and the accompanying change in how parts of  this traditional fabric were used. Therefore, we need to  have a clear and accurate perception of the change in the  characteristics of the spatial organization of the urban and  historical centers that resulted from these formal changes.  This requires defining and describing the characteristics of  this spatial organization before and after these changes  occurred. The present research adopts the space syntax  method to measure morphological changes and the historic  center of Mosul in Iraq is chosen for the practical study due  to the city’s need for a development strategy that controls  expansion and growth when rebuilding the city after the  destruction that resulted from the military operations in the  war with ISIS. 


Article citation:

Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Sarah Salh Youssef, Haneen Ali Abd , "Effects of Urban Growth on Street Networks  and Land Use in Mosul, Iraq: A Case Study," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 1667-1676, 2021.  DOI: 10.13189/cea.2021.090601 

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