Journal of the planner and development

No country in the world has an ancient heritage of its own. It represents the product of the civilizations left behind by previous eras. It represents the development of urban life and its capital of the interest of its people in the field of construction and reconstruction. The urban heritage and its associated arts may seem to be a material heritage at first glance, but it is not free from the spiritual side. Therefore, the nations in different parts of the earth cherish it and care for it with all due diligence, because it mixes with its history, memories and emotions.
This research discusses the use of local environment materials in the production of urban fabric constituents. It also reviews a number of concepts that define traditional urban heritage, as well as the experience of Egyptian architect Hassan Fathi in using the local environment materials in his famous experience in Qurna. The most famous international experiences in this field.

The problem of research is that there are ways to protect and sustain environmentally important sites in Iraq. There are no documentary sources for these sites, such as the natural landscape of natural and important natural resources, which suffer from severe environmental neglect

The research examines the reality of the housing sector in Iraq and the stage of change and institution-building, which is increasingly challenging to respond to development needs. The legal legislation in Iraq over the last five years indicates a significant shift towards decentralization, with powers and services being delegated from federal ministries to regional levels Localization and growth in cities and urban centers is an added factor that requires responses from local governments to strengthen the capacity of their institutions to engage in national policy debate at the regional and local levels. With the launch of the Ministry of Planning For a five-year national development, which seeks to expand the central resources at the same time working to build local authorities, it becomes necessary capacity of local councils to carry out developmental responsibilities development.

In this context, the housing sector is one of the vital sectors of the national development plan, and since legal legislation in previous decades dealt with this sector as a demand and social activity, institutions and institutional frameworks reflect a central approach in dealing with housing needs based on production Housing units built by the public sector, and plots of land granted for the construction of housing in both cases did not provide a solution to the growing problem of the housing sector where there was no capacity to produce housing units parallel to the increase in the need for housing, and with the changes have become necessary to be here As structuring components affecting the housing sector, according to the vision of institutional and legislative changes. Such as the continued vision of housing as an expenditure on social services rather than as a productive and investment sector. The problem of research, while restoring the vision to the housing sector as a key driver of economic growth, job creation, wealth generation and individual investment is the main objective of the research, In cooperation with the relevant authorities in order to encourage, finance and build housing for all strata of the society in all its financial income, with special attention to housing of middle and low income people based on the hypothesis of research that the structure of components affecting the housing sector will lead to the role A larger product for the housing sector such as financial services, construction, reconstruction and investment.
The results of the research revealed the identification of the axes of the confrontation with the formulation of a mechanism for the project of restructuring the housing sector with the required aspects of this process, which is the formulation of a modern housing policy and mobilization of resources to improve the housing sector in addition to activating the role of local councils in this sector.

Abstract
Planning of cities show great attention on streets planning as one of the most structural component foundations for cities, that providing many functional needs and connect parts of the city each other, and work as a commercial and services activities centers.
Instead of this highly focused on distributing streets with different streets types such as economical and trading and housing streets. This concerned was only on the dimensions and scales of different types of vehicles and their movement. When scale and dimension and movement of mans were as a second priority in designing and planning streets. Which came\'s first for traditional streets. The research try to submit some designs guides for planners that contribute in re concerning the human environment through studying the most effective needs such as psychological and environmental and acoustical. That achieving comfort environment for walking person inside streets.

The city of Baghdad underwent various changes and developments, which significantly influenced its urban character. And other urban fabric. The most prominent changes in the architecture of that period characterized by the emergence and spread of modern architecture, it represents the period between the 1940s and the late seventies of the twentieth century, which had its many reasons and various factors that paved and supported, and even encouraged the spread of modern architecture of the world, The advanced world in the adoption of a global architecture spread in the city of Baghdad by a number of international architects and Iraqis, who came from those countries and saturation ideas of modernity and touched their applications in practice, prompting them to apply in the city of Baghdad as an attempt to get out of the urban pattern Traditional urban fabric combined with the organic style of city planning, the construction of quite a few modernist buildings expressing the ideas of its designers and their use of new construction materials.
These ideas and applications have received many negative and positive criticism. At times they seem to be architectural monuments that applied the ideas of modernity away from the surrounding fabric and the use of pure lines and simple forms and reliance on the principle of career, and at other times seem to be embedded in the urban fabric without justification for their existence to break the line of the sky In its human scale with its neighborhoods through its construction as scattered pieces that are not in harmony with each other.
This research aims to highlight the most important factors that contributed to the emergence and spread of modern architecture in the city of Baghdad by addressing the stages of the emergence of Baghdad planning and the most important architectural influences, economic and planning carried by Iraqi architects and foreigners alike.