Indicators for achieving a sustainable urban environment (Al-Qadisiyah district / Tikrit city)
Year: 2023
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: There is no doubt that the application of sustainability has become a necessary topic in various scales, especially in the urban environment scale and we can consider sustainability as a successful solution to many problems that occurred in cities due to the growth and development of these cities, and it embodies.one of the most prominent forms of creativity in the field of urban planning, since many cities were in good conditions, and at the present time it is required to restore vitality to them and achieve the highest rate of comfort for the population and work to make these cities closer to sustainability, and this requires the availability of elected indicators This is done by first knowing what sustainability is, then finding special indicators in this field that serve as selected criteria that help in evaluating the urban environment, to know the extent to which urban space responds to achieving sustainability, by identifying the strengths and weaknesses in the performance of this space in relation to sustainability. Thus, the research is based on a problem that is summarized in (the cognitive deficiency in identifying effective indicators to reach urban sustainability), and we aim to identify effective indicators in achieving sustainability in the urban environment and how these indicators work, and we assume in the research (that the indicators that were found from the urban environment work together and in a coherent manner as effective and represent criteria in achieving sustainability in the urban environment). After studying and identifying the concept of sustainability in the urban environment, four main indicators were found to achieve this sustainability, which are (urban density, urban diversity, urban design for pedestrians and accessibility). These indicators were applied to the study area, which is the Al-Qadisiyah district in the city of Tikrit to identify the level of performance of the urban environment for the area and how to raise the level of this performance to achieve sustainability.
Authors: Younus Mosleh Dhahir, Kareem Hassan Alwan
Institution: University of Baghdad
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4319992010