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Toward Resiliency Through Sustainable Urban Formation in Baghdad

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Towards Implementation of Sustainability Concepts in Developing Countries

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This research comes in an attempt to develop the present urban patterns toward resiliency in the developing countries’ environment in general and the Baghdad City in particular. This is performed through the looking at the most recent theories designed to extrapolate socio-ecological resilient and sustainable urban formation, viewing their roots and development, by founders and advocates. The aim is to extract the most significant strategies from these perspectives that can serve Baghdad City as a case study. The key finding of this research is the lack of the ideal theory that extrapolated the sustainable urban formation as a structure that can be applied as a prototype of the resilient theory. Each city demonstrates the properties that distinguish it from others, and day after day, applications and indicators are undertaken to serve some cities and not others depending on functionality, stability, and adaptive cycling process, the nature of the city, and the environmental characterization of this city. As a result, this research adopts some integrated strategies as solutions combining the recent theories and includes recent approaches searching for Baghdad urban resiliency, by extrapolating its phases of changing, its flexibility, and its adaptation of the urban fabric according to its master plans. Consequently, some cities might have able to cope with the severe spatiotemporal changes and reach sustainability, and others might fail to achieve urban resiliency.

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    Zaynab Radi Abaas

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    Francesco Cappa

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Abaas, Z.R. (2021). Toward Resiliency Through Sustainable Urban Formation in Baghdad. In: Alalouch, C., Piselli, C., Cappa, F. (eds) Towards Implementation of Sustainability Concepts in Developing Countries. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74349-9_1

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