Planning Sustainable Urban Growth in Kurdistan
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Urban growth, Environment, Sustainability, Kurdistan Region-IraqAbstract
In Kurdistan region, urban areas and populations are growing rapidly in the recent years. Before 60s or 70s, the process of urbanization was not so complicated because the agricultures solely have shaped the spatial development. Now urban growth and land use change is taking place in a dynamic ways. At the same time environmental infrastructure of services are insufficient to serve the resulting increases in population. The inevitable congestion causes environmental hazards and degradation until strategies for reversing environmental worsening can be implemented. The purpose of this paper is to explain the urban growth process in Kurdistan region, then it tries to illustrate some strategies to make existing and new urban areas in Kurdistan more self-sufficient, sustainable, and enjoyable places to live.
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