Sustainable Urban Renewal of the Old City of Mosul | ||
| Al-Rafidain Engineering Journal (AREJ) | ||
| Article 2, Volume 27, Issue 2, September 2022, Pages 21-27 PDF (2.14 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.33899/rengj.2022.132545.1147 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ibtihal Do Alfuqhar* ; Mehmet Emre Aysu | ||
| Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Istanbul Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research focuses on clarifying the relationship between sustainability and urban renewal project in the old city of Mosul, this city has a distinctive architectural character but it has lost many of its landmarks in the last war. From this point, the study began to assess the current situation of the site based on the concepts of sustainability that have become one of the basics of design at present. The research aims to clarify the ways of applying sustainability strategies in the urban renewal program of the study site on its social, economic and environmental aspects. The research adopts a data analysis system for the city in addition to the survey data that was conducted in it to determine the extent of the impact of the population of the area on this process. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| sustainability; Sustainable Urban Renewal; the Old City of Mosul; Urban renewal | ||
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