Journal of the planner and development

Urban land price is the primary indicator of land development in urban areas. Land prices in holly cities have rapidly increased due to tourism and religious activities. Public agencies are usually facing challenges in managing land prices in religious areas. Therefore, they require developed models or tools to understand land prices within religious cities. Predicting land prices can efficiently retain future management and develop urban lands within religious cities. This study proposed a new methodology to predict urban land prices within holy cities. The methodology is based on two models, Linear Regression (LR) and Support Vector Regression (SVR), and nine variables (land price, land area, distance to a river, distance to main roads, distance to heritage locations, distance to historical mosques, distance to commercial locations, distance to educational locations, and distance to hospital and clinics. Our findings showed that the SVR model had outperformed the LR model, where SVR achieved an accuracy of 82.9%.In contrast, LR has achieved 75.40%. Therefore, the presented models can assess land prices in holly cities like Al-Kufa. Furthermore, this tool can retain land pricing, land management, and urban planning in Iraq.

The research paper deals with the role of the place making in eco-tourism through a review of international experiences in the eco-tourism industry and its contribution to advancing the reality of tourism there, and attracting the largest number of tourists. The study is divided into five axes: the first is a study of related concepts, and the second is a study of global experiences, which included three countries: (South Bank (Gabriel's Wharf) - London, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and dealt with each of Happy Streets and Kendrick Mills, and then the Perak River tourist corridor - Malaysia). As for the third axis, it is concerned with analyzing these experiences to reach the fourth axis, which is related to the practical framework and the field study of the city of Hit and the most important ingredients and capabilities it possesses for environmental tourism attraction, and then analyzing the region to know the types of ecotourism available and that may be available in it, as well as the capabilities and determinants that hinder its availability, as well as Clarifying the types of place making that can be applied in the city of Heat and clarifying some examples of them to advance the environmental tourism situation in it, using the method of making the tourist place. Finally, the fifth axis is related to the conclusions and recommendations that can be taken toadvance the environmental tourism reality of tourist destinations. Place Making Ecotourism Gabriel Wharf Rotterdam Heet Perak River Heet Waterwheels.

The types of development potential in the city vary, from the nature of city, to its society, environment, economy, and history. The city of Baghdad contains many historical development potentials out of using, and most of them towards declining, this will be the research problem, within the aim of trying to clarify how to invest one of the important historical elements in the development of the city, based on the hypothesis that the sustainable development of the city should be stand on the activation of its historical assets. The historical wall of Baghdad is located on the Rusafa side, which is a wall that has not been left except for one gate and the site of another gate from it is four gates. This wall surrounds the city of Baghdad on the side of Rusafa, it was built since the late Abbasid period, the process of demolishing its parts happened in the First World War and the loss of the Ottoman Empire and the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq. The methodology will depend on old maps showing this wall will be obtained and matched with a corrected satellites image of the city through choosing of some common features, used as ground control; points (GCP). After determining the course of the wall, the land uses of the quarry are identified for this course and suggest how they can be changed with more appropriate other land uses. The importance of choosing this element would affect the sustainable development in society. This wall has an impact on the peaceful coexistence in the city, as it protected all residents of the city without discrimination. Also, this wall laying in most valuable land in the city, so that investment in accordance with its importance economically feasible. The third aspect is that the economic investment of the cultural and historical elements is one of the cleanest investments because it preserves the environment from contaminants as opposed to other productive investments.

In the nineteenth century, a new type of cities appeared, known as new cities located on the edges of major cities, and these cities began to decentralization, urban studies turned to this type of cities to find out the most important reasons for the emergence of new cities and find out what those cities will become . Therefore, we will discuss in this research how the urban emergence of these cities (edge cities) occurs, so the research formulates its problem : The need to know the stages that edge cities go through, ending with their emergence, and the mechanisms that cities take within their context ( regeneration or adaptation ), Assuming that edge cities are a dynamic system that goes through several stages, ending with the emergence stage , this research is to know the stages that lead to the emergence of these cities and to know the mechanism of the city's behavior within its context (regeneration or adaptation ) The researcher also touched on the concept of the dynamic system and knowledge of the stages of the dynamic system, so that the researcher came to the most important vocabulary that resulted from the Association of the vocabulary of the edge cities with the vocabulary of the dynamic system, namely the indicators of urban emergence, its pattern, indicators of regeneration and adaptation and the application of these indicators applying the emerging pattern indicators for Al-madayin city and indicators of regeneration and adaptation .

The objective of all planning research is to plan for human comfort and safety, and one of the most significant natural dangers to which humans are exposed is earthquake risk; therefore, earthquake risks must be anticipated, and with the advancement of global technology, it is possible to obtain information on earthquake hazards. GIS has been utilized extensively in the field of environmental assessment research due to its high potential, and GIS is a crucial application in seismic risk assessment. This paper examines the methodologies used in recent GIS-based seismic risk studies, their primary environmental impacts on urban areas, and the complexity of the relationship between the applied methodological approaches and the resulting environmental risk assessments. Using spatial analysis techniques based on the history of spatial earthquakes, fault lines, and residential complexes. This article provides map which depict the most significant seismic danger zones in Iran. The analysis reveals that the area of very dangerous and earthquake-prone zone is equal to (12%) from the residential areas, it is concentrated in the western region, adjacent to Iraq and close to the tectonic plate. The dangerous areas are concentrated in the western side of Iran, extending from the north to the south (20%), which is a fairly large percentage. As for the critical area by earthquake-prone, they are concentrated in the northern regions (23%), The medium critical areas are frequent in the centre and the north-east in Iran, and it is the largest area (26%), while the areas that less affected by the risk of an earthquake, are concentrated in the middle (17%), As for the areas that are not affected by the risk of earthquakes, (1%).

The aim of studying the role of environmental taxation is to reduce or mitigate the problem of environmental pollution and obtain a clean environment. And the importance of research lies in the fact that environmental taxation is one of the basic tools to achieve environmental balance. As it is considered one of the sustainable economic tools that focuses on the concept of environmental taxes and fees. Therefore, the incentives stimulated institutions to invest in clean energy and use environmentally friendly machines. Through it, the rules of the competition are updated in favor of organizations that respect the environment so that they can obtain a green competitive advantage. And that the main issue in the industries is the result of the technical and technological progress taking place at the present time, which has led to a deterioration in the urban environment and the depletion of its natural resources. In this research, some concepts about the components of the urban environment, environmental pollution, environmental taxes, and taxes were addressed, and the experiences of some countries were presented. The most important findings of the research are that collection and environmental incentives have a major role in reducing pollution.

The research deals with the analysis of the city's commercial center using geographic information systems to solve the problem of congestion by evaluating the efficiency and adequacy of car parking lots according to local and Arab standards. Undoubtedly, the importance of car parking areas, as they are not within the desired efficiency within the city, will lead to congestion and traffic becomes very difficult. Thus, the transportation service loses its most important characteristic, which is the ease of movement. Therefore, there has become an urgent need to study and analyze it, as well as to verify the adequacy of the service, and the amount of deficit required to be provided to solve the transportation crisis and ease of traffic in the city center. For all that, the commercial center was chosen because it is the most crowded in the city of Al-Shatrah, to prepare a traffic study that includes collecting data on the locations and numbers of vehicles parked on both sides of the street, and analyzing the study area and its location besides ownership and prices. Therefore, the research methodology deals with descriptive analysis, which includes an analytical study of car parking lots within Arab and local standards, and comes up with analytical indicators, then the practical side deals with quantitative analysis represented by numbers of car parking lots, especially at rush hour, and then using (spatial analysis) based on the satellite image. As well as making a questionnaire and using statistical analysis represented by the normal distribution with binomial to analyze the results through the zero hypotheses and access to the actual need from the field survey and geographic information systems for car parks amounting to (252) car–parking spaces, which is greater than the available capacity .

The living urban space is considered one of the most important elements of the success of modern cities, and it is the first mental image that is formed by people (residents and visitors) of the city , a measure of the frequency, presence and interaction of people in the spaces is an indication of the city's vitality, well-being and economic strength .
The occupation of the city of Mosul before the terrorist ISIS in 2014 and the subsequent liberation operations and the end of the war in 2017 had a great impact on the destruction of the old city on the right side and the death of its urban spaces due to the abandonment of people to it, especially the area (Al-Midan and Al-Qalayaat), which was elected to be the study area , From this emerged the general axis of the research (the revival of dead urban spaces) because of their association with society and its importance in identifying and diagnosing the causes of abandonment of areas and spaces and what result on it ,



Through studying the focus of the research, the research problem was determined (the absence of a clear strategy to revive the spaces of the old city after the liberation operations in 2017 in a manner that depends on the principles of sustainability, smart city planning and economic development and ensures the preservation of the urban identity of the region) within the main research hypothesis (sustainable living space is achieved in the Qalayaat and Al-Midan through the re-planning and organization of urban space) ,

the research included the comprehensive analysis of the region and identifying weaknesses and strengths, and studying a number of global experiences in post-disaster urban reconstruction And consider the destruction an opportunity for improvement

The research reached results that showed that the dominant dimensions of the revival of spaces in the Qulaiaat area (movement system, infrastructure services) were followed by the economic dimension as it is an effective force in achieving living spaces and as the results showed the participation of all dimensions, but in varying proportions, in achieving sustainable and balanced urban spaces
It creates cohesion and social interaction and supports economic and