The Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies, University of Baghdad, witnessed the discussion of the master’s thesis entitled (Digital Technologies in Urban Conservation), by the student Hoda Adnan Kazim, and supervised by Professor Dr. Nadia Abdul Majeed Al-Salam. The thesis aimed to identify the digital technologies involved in urban conservation, and to verify the existence and use of these technologies in conservation areas in Baghdad.

The student concluded that the digital technologies involved in urban conservation are used in documentation, protection and tourism, concluding that digital technologies represent important tools for digitizing and documenting architectural and urban heritage, and through them a database is created that is the basis for the purposes of heritage protection and tourism, in addition to developing heritage interfaces such as images and three-dimensional models used in augmented and virtual reality.

The thesis recommended the necessity of managing heritage in a technical manner through capacity building and training staff to enhance skills in using digital technologies among all specialists in government departments and agencies related to heritage, and ensuring comprehensive multi-dimensional documentation to obtain comprehensive data for heritage areas using a variety of advanced digital technologies.

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