Document Type : Original Article
Authors
Department of Geography, Faculty of Languages and Humanities, University of Kermian, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Abstract
The area of residential land uses for the period 1997-2021 increased significantly as a result of the change in the area allocated to it due to urban expansion, which is one of the reasons that most contributed to the development of its area. That they were deported in previous periods and waves of population movement after the year 2007-2018, as the total number of arrivals during that period reached (17109) people, and the city’s population increased from (29360) people in 1997 to (80207) people for the year 2021, and they put pressure on the old allocated area for housing, amounting to (304) hectares, at a rate of (13.4%) of the total area of the city, amounting to (2196) hectares, and a percentage of (59.6%) of the built-up area of the city, amounting to (507) hectares for the year 1997, and the city did not absorb this great pressure, so new residential neighborhoods were created to fill the housing deficit, including within the municipal borders of the city, and some of them were created in 1998 and were not implemented for a political goal, such as neighborhoods (Dara Konareh, and Imam Abbas), in addition to exploiting the ground spaces within the residential neighborhoods such as the Yakiti locality in Tola Frush, which is part of its fabric, and the staff locality in Azadi Khawar, in addition to merging some villages very close to the residential neighborhoods such as (Ali Murad and Youssef villages Beck) and turn it into a regular residential locality, as for the neighborhoods outside The municipal boundaries of the city, some of which were formerly villages whose residents were previously abandoned, such as the neighborhoods of (Banmil and Jabrawah), and others are vacant lands that were not officially exploited, such as the neighborhoods of (Bakhtiari and Sirwan), as well as the Zanko neighborhood, whose lands were distributed, but it has not yet been established as a residential neighborhood, and all These neighborhoods were legally residential slums only until 2013 until the new design of the city was implemented and these neighborhoods were entered within the municipal borders, and the area of residential land uses changed in 2021 to (1060.3) hectares, at a rate of (55.6%) of its area. Al-Mamoura, amounting to (1906) hectares, at a rate of (20.4%) for its total area of (5200) hectares, in the new design.
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