The Evolution in the Infrastructure of Baghdad City: The Glory, the Demolishment and Rebuild of the City of Peace

Abstract

Purpose: This study describes a new model for urban planning in ancient and preindustrial cities that moves beyond the traditional simplistic dichotomy of planned versus organic cities.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The model has two components: coordination of buildings and spaces, and standardization among cities Qualitative content analysis method was used in this study to analyze.

Findings: The results revealed that a variety of coordinated arrangements of buildings reflect urban planning, including simple coordination, formality and monumentality, orthogonal layouts, other forms of geometric order, and access and visibility. For what it represents, as an element dealing with the conscious and the unconscious, in the process of thinking of the city future of Baghdad and its near one cities, in order to build a continuous civilization. The urban types were established historical cities in the middle age in the Christian civilization in Europe land, and in the middle age of Islamic civilization in Arabic land.  

Implications/Originality/Value: So it is concluded that the absence of development strategies to protect the urban heritage of Baghdad allowed the modern structure to reach the peripheries of the old part and destroyed the inner part where historical monuments and quarters exist.