Adopting a policy of sustainable inverse densification in urban sprawl areas
| Autor: | Zaynab Radi Abaas, Wadah Abdul-Sahib, Ahmed Natiq Al-Shammaa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
General Computer Science Population 0211 other engineering and technologies Biomedical Engineering Distribution (economics) Bioengineering 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Urban planning Architecture Per capita Population growth Electrical and Electronic Engineering education Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Sustainable development education.field_of_study business.industry Mechanical Engineering Urban sprawl 021107 urban & regional planning Urban expansion Geography business |
| Zdroj: | Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences (PEN). 9:599 |
| ISSN: | 2303-4521 |
| DOI: | 10.21533/pen.v9i2.1843 |
| Popis: | Baghdad City suffers from a continual horizontal urban expansion causing a multitude of urban problems that limit sustainable development. This paper presents an applied study to monitor the stages of urban sprawl of the Al-Zawra area, located on the outskirts of Baghdad City. This study is conducted by following the urban sprawl changes during the period between 2000 and 2020. This study assumes the adoption of the control strategy called urban inverse densification according to the principles of sustainable urban development. The study used the descriptive method and the statistical analytical approach to data extracted from satellite images and topographic maps collected from various sources. The results showed that the population growth distribution indicator in the sprawl phenomenon (Ps) reached 80.71 %, compared to the densification phenomenon (Pd) 13.62 %. While the gross per capita urban land indicator in the sprawl (Ds) reached 19.29 %, compared to densification (Dd) 86.38 %. Therefore, there is an inverse relationship between the population and density indicators and their effect on urban sprawl and urban densification. The results showed the efficacy of an analytical statistical model for rehabilitating urban sprawl areas and reducing pressure on the outskirts of big cities through sustainable inverse densification. |
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