The Center of Urban and Regional Planning is distinguished because of the nature of its specialization, which distinguished it from the rest of the branches of postgraduate studies in Iraqi universities. It combines the academic and applied directions on the one hand, and the fact that its students are from multiple disciplines (Interdisciplinary), on the other hand, which is one of the requirements for the formation of planners. The planning process is nothing but the outcome of the interaction of a group of human knowledge to form in its final outcome the planning ability of the planners. This pluralism acquires its importance if the planning act is embodied in reality within the “place” data. City planning or site planning is not limited to economic knowledge in calculating costs and revenues only, but also in studying the population: their customs, traditions, movement, and demographic composition…. Etc., and it is also a study in the natural characteristics of that place and it is above this and that geometric dimensions in architecture and land uses. The planning process, then, is the outcome of the integration of human knowledge of the sciences, economics, geography, sociology, and engineering.
