The lecturer at the Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies, Assistant Professor Dr. Ali Hussein Muhammad al-Janabi, participated in the scientific symposium entitled (Division and spread of housing units in the city of Baghdad, its causes, effects, and treatment) which was held by the Baghdad Municipality.
Al-Janabi presented a working paper entitled (Division of housing units and its impact on the quality of life in the city), which included 3 tracks. The first dealt with the interaction between the elements of the urban complex (humans, legislation, and architectural composition in the place), as well as their relationship with the external environment, while the second touched on the most important planning legislation that regulates the urban environment, with a focus on legislation that has a clear impact on the division of residential units, which caused the abolition of the concept of urban areas in the city of Baghdad, and the rise in building, housing and population densities, and then its negative repercussions on the quality of life in the city. It also included presenting some field footage showing the decline in urban indicators. The third track highlighted the most important impacts on the urban environment and the quality of life in it in terms of cause and effect.
The research paper presented some recommendations and solutions, which were on two levels. The first level included the urban system itself, and the legislation it requires or amends it, to reduce the negative impacts on the quality of life in the city, as well as adopting appropriate housing policies to meet residential demand and meet the housing need without negative impacts on the existing urban system, while the second level dealt with the measures that must be taken from outside the urban system at the regional and national levels to protect the city from the pressure of immigration entering it, by activating spatial development factors in the countryside and governorates to reduce migration to the capital, Baghdad.
