The Arab city between reality and the future

The Arab city between reality and the future

 

The Arab city between reality and the future

 

 Mahmoud Akash Ahmed

 

           The city represents one of the branches of human geography whose establishment is based on its possession of the natural and human geographical elements, including the infrastructure that contributes to human stability on its land, despite the stability and presence of 45% of the world’s population in cities and the difference in their urban environments from one place to another and differing in terms of size and scope. These cities remain the cultural, economic, administrative and social basis that meets the requirements of urban life, and its extension to its neighboring and distant region. These cities cannot continue without the continuity and diversity of changes and developments in them to keep pace with the developments of the modern era for the sustainability and preservation of the city.

 

           Many cities have suffered in the last century from weak infrastructure, including transportation, sustainability, and effective employment for the requirements of their sustainability. Unfortunately, Arab and Iraqi cities still suffer from this problem, and this is what John Del Moth, the United Nations representative for the Department of Social and Economic Affairs in the world, referred to, who considered managing the environments. Urbanization is one of the major challenges facing development in the twenty-first century.

 

            Here, the role of the geographer who specializes in studying spatial relationships and their interaction between urban human settlements and their surroundings with each other in order to sustain the city and improve its efficiency, and due to the high speed in the growth of cities, we need to think and direct scientific planning for the reality of our cities in order to reach the appropriate roads that It makes urbanization a sustainable element. In modern countries, we find that providing education and health services to the population is very important. Urban environments in which the population is crowded in their cities, especially Arab and Iraqi ones, live in tragic ways that lack the application of modern educational foundations and standards of their high efficiency and benefit from their outputs and activation and weakness In its health services and the unilateralism of its economic resources without thinking about finding alternatives to it, in addition to the rapid spread of epidemics in it such as the Corona virus, which gave a clear lesson about the reality of our Iraqi cities and the weakness and deprivation they suffer from the requirements of urban life that achieve the civil purpose of the concept of urbanization, and therefore it is our dependence on the requirements of urbanization Sustainable We can change the way it is planned to build cities and in a way that achieves the least damage The city can provide a better and more sustainable life for the residents, and this can be called the organizational structure of its buildings, the diversity of its spaces, transportation methods, economic supplies and energy sources, which form the backbone of its sound economic building. Without the development of infrastructure, cities cannot be built, because every day every individual in their society uses some form and type of infrastructure. The city, which can be referred to through modern cities, as the cities of the twenty-first century have been able to reach advanced levels to implement their aspirations and ambitions, which they aspire to improve life and meet contemporary human and social requirements and needs through two main directions. The first is the model of sustainable cities, which It is based on preserving the available resources and energies of the environment. And re-exploitation of non-exhausted standards of health and environment.

 

          As for the second trend, it is represented by the model of smart cities that are based on the use of information and communication technology as a means to achieve its goals, and as a tool for improving the city. And the modern urban design concerned with strategic planning for the growth of cities is now tending to interrelate between these two trends in attempts to integrate all the capabilities and factors affecting and affected by urban planning in these two directions. The twenty-first century, which relies on information and communication technology as a means to achieve its rational goals and measure the efficiency of its services, especially educational and health, and in rationalizing and diversifying the economy and energy, as well as their temporal measurement. We note that modern smart cities are based on a sustainable urban growth pattern, in which human capital, social capital and infrastructure are linked to information and communication technology in order to address general urban issues, to achieve sustainable development and enhance the quality of life for its citizens.

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