Urban upgrading and its role in sustainable urbanism

Abstract

One of the biggest problems in the modern urban environment is the phenomenon of the spread of slums, which are threatening the future of the Iraqi city, and this phenomenon has become increasing over time and has become a danger spread in most Iraqi cities .The problem of research: is in the knowledge gap related to the role of the urban upgrading of the slums and the knowledge of the integration of these neighborhoods with the mother city to achieve the process of sustainable urbanization of this city. The research assumes that achieving sustainable urbanization is through the urban upgrading of slums. Therefore, the aim of the research is to reach a theoretical framework that shows the indicators of the spatial organization of the random neighborhoods and the detection of the treatments of the negative characteristics of these neighborhoods to achieve the quality of life which achieves the sustainable urban form .In order to test the hypothesis of the research, theoretical framework indicators were applied to areas of random neighborhoods in the city of Baghdad.