Analytical study between human urban planning and geographic information systems: "The case of the city of Casablanca"

Abstract

Since the early 1910s, the city of Casablanca has experienced urban and civic expansion so that its population has become a regional center, but this expansion has not been achieved in an organized and equal manner. This has resulted in significant overlap between systematic and structured reconstruction and random reconstruction, and if the geographic researcher is able to study this transformation by observation in the field where he described the phenomena and visualized them with the naked eye, then urbanization of information systems is one of the methods of expression that allows him to study it successfully and more precisely. The study of the stages of urbanization that the city of Casablanca has gone through using urbanization of information systems will give actors and researchers a clear vision of how this expansion can be achieved, it's positive and negative implications, and its prospects, and will thus help to prepare and manage the urban area of the city. This study period extended from 1910 to 2020, and we relied on a set of documents, satellite photos, aerial photos and old maps.