The Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad organized a workshop entitled (Planning Sustainable Environmental Neighborhoods is a Step Towards Sustainable Cities), delivered by Dr. Zainab Abbas Ahmed. The workshop aimed to demonstrate the importance of environmental sustainability for residential neighborhoods to achieve city sustainability, as there are urban problems in the design of residential neighborhoods.
In her workshop, Dr. Zainab relied on choosing the Swedish city of Malo as a model because it has implemented most of the sustainability standards, at a time when it is the third largest city in Sweden. Malo has transformed its port specialized in shipbuilding into a technology and knowledge city that includes the greatest universities and information technology companies in the world, and seeks Sweden is part of its plans to implement the highest levels of sustainability in the year 2030, relying exclusively on renewable energy. Thus, Sweden will achieve environmental, social and economic sustainability. The workshop recommended the need to transform ordinary cities into sustainable cities by transforming their current neighborhoods into neighborhoods that apply sustainability standards, which stems from the exclusion of industrial areas. Polluted areas and their neighborhoods outside the urban city.
Teachers and employees of the Center attended the workshop. They enriched the workshop with their discussions and exchange of their scientific opinions on the concepts of sustainability and their application.
