Analyze Urban Area Density As A Measure Of Urban Reconstruction

This paper suggests that urban densification is the optimal response to the issues associated with urban expansion. It is one of the axes upon which the sustainability of cities and the majority of modern planning theories are founded. As almost all ideas are devoid of the concept of urban densification, which contributes to limiting unexamined urban sprawl, preventing the consumption of land surrounding the city, and managing growth innovatively and sustainably, the research problem arose, which states that the gradual, unexamined urban development in the town led to Problems through unsustainable urban sprawl that led to the consumption of agricultural lands surrounding the city. Five important axes: (the axis of inclusion, the axis of multiple ground uses, green areas, social integration, and the axis of transportation. As each hand in the study area was analysed using the indicators extracted from the theoretical framework and applied to the study area (a portion of the city of Nasiriyah), it was determined that the axis of the diversity of land uses achieved the lowest ratio due to the dominance of horizontal style uses and the consumption of agricultural lands. Urban expansion, the research concluded with a set of proposals and planning alternatives proposed by the researcher through the application of densification on the secondary centre and the filling of vacant areas in addition to densifying the corridors and nodes associated with the secondary centre to improve the reality of the city and draw attention by researchers to the significance of the subject of study.