Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Public facilities represent great importance in any country, and preserving them from any aggression or transgression represents the element of their permanence by providing their services to the public. However, the phenomenon of illegal constructions in Iraq, including Al-Anbar Governorate, has become a serious scourge that affects the efficiency of public utilities. The aim of our research is to shed light on these institutions and how abuses can be addressed in accordance with the current Iraqi laws, and how these abuses can be addressed after they have become a burden on the provision of services, especially after they have become a theater that distorts the landscape of cities, especially after 2003. When the state became weak and there was no law to hold violators accountable. It became clear to us through that study that the problem with the exacerbation of the spread of illegal construction is the lack of cultural awareness of the citizen, the non-compliance with the law, and the absence of a deterrent force. The other problem represented in the position of the leader of some committees to remove illegal construction, who was assigned as a result of quotas to a local figure from the same city, which makes it hard for him to remove the illegal constructions, so he avoids the enforcement of the law, which caused the spread and exacerbation of this phenomenon. We took statistics from some Anbar municipalities as a model for those numbers.
Institution: Al-Idrisi University College
Language: Arabic
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220072185