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    Urban Analysis Baghdad: Group Members Amna Iqbal-147 Maria Karim-111 Washma Shahid-146 Zunaira Malik-145 Rasaam Ali-148

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    The document summarizes the urban growth and development of Baghdad over time. It discusses how Baghdad initially grew due to its position along trade routes and proximity to water. The city had a circular structure with walls and gates. Over time, as the population increased, the city expanded beyond its walls. In the 19th-20th centuries, Western influences led to changes like a grid system replacing the traditional structure and relocating the city center. However, modern urban decay and wars have negatively impacted Baghdad.

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    The document summarizes the urban growth and development of Baghdad over time. It discusses how Baghdad initially grew due to its position along trade routes and proximity to water. The city had a circular structure with walls and gates. Over time, as the population increased, the city expanded beyond its walls. In the 19th-20th centuries, Western influences led to changes like a grid system replacing the traditional structure and relocating the city center. However, modern urban decay and wars have negatively impacted Baghdad.

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    The document summarizes the urban growth and development of Baghdad over time. It discusses how Baghdad initially grew due to its position along trade routes and proximity to water. The city had a circular structure with walls and gates. Over time, as the population increased, the city expanded beyond its walls. In the 19th-20th centuries, Western influences led to changes like a grid system replacing the traditional structure and relocating the city center. However, modern urban decay and wars have negatively impacted Baghdad.

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    URBAN ANALYSIS

    BAGHDAD
    Group members
    Amna Iqbal-147
    Maria Karim-111
    Washma Shahid-146
    Zunaira malik-145
    Rasaam Ali-148
    REASONS BEHIND BAGHDAD URBAN
    GROWTH

    • The critical links in trade route, mild climate , topography and proximity to
    water.
    • The city was a CARAVAN ROUTE for all the cardinal directions.
    • Gates were places at the entrances of major city routes
    • The city being a trade route – numerous markets were opened within the
    city and around
    • Due to the new markets open –ADVANCED BANKING system was
    established from outsiders in the city
    • The city was ultimately based on its potential position as military arsenal.
    • Also its ability to house and support many troops.
    • The large number of troops gave the city a dense population
    • A center of commerce Baghdad became the largest city during that time.
    GEOGRAPHY

    The city was built on a site located on the west bank of the Tigris river that
    was connected to the Euphrates through a network of waterways which was
    chosen to facilitate east-west trade.
    PROS:
    • It had control over strategic and trading routes along the Tigris.
    • An abundance of water in the hot and dry climate.
    • Availability of water on both the north and south ends of the city, allowing
    all households to have a plentiful supply.
    CONS:
    • Due to the nature of the terrain surrounding Baghdad, which is a flat
    alluvial plain 112 feet above sea level, the city has been inundated by
    periodic floods from the Tigris’s tributaries to the north and east. However
    these ended with the completion of a dam on the Tigris at the town of
    Samarra, north of Baghdad, and that resulted in extensive expansion of the
    city to the east and west.
    STRUCTURE OF THE CITY
    • A round city, consisting of three concentric circles with massively
    fortified double external walls and two additional layers of internal
    walls.
    • Four straight roads that ran from the city’s center to the four gates in
    the outer walls, divided it into four quarters with the mosque and the
    palace situated in the center.
    • On the margins of this circle were the palaces of the royal family,
    barracks for the horse guards, homes for the caliph’s officials and
    servants.
    • The two outer circles were occupied by residential and commercial
    buildings.

    Since many people started coming to the city to settle and space was
    limited due to the circular nature of the planning, another settlement
    was established on the east bank of the Tigris and the markets were
    relocated outside the walls.
    URBAN TRANSFORMATION.

    • -THE TRANSFORMATION FROM A CIRCULAR FORTIFICATION


    CITY TO AN ORGANIC PATTEREN REFLECTS THE LOCAL URBAN
    CONTENTS OF PHYSICAL AND SOCIO-ECONIMIC ACTIVITY. GROWTH
    • -TODAY THE CITY FACES URBAN DECAY AND DEGREGATION
    DUE TO POLOTICS AND THREE WARS.
    • BAGHDAD UNDER OTTOMAN PERIOD
    • FOUR MAIN ENTRANCES, TO FACILITATE GROWING UPTO 19TH
    POPULATION CENTURY
    • HIGHLY ORDERED URBAN COMPONENTS CREATED A
    HOMOGENEITY IN HIERARCHIAL RELATIONSHIP AND
    CONNECTION
    • NARROW STREETS/CONDESED HOUSING
    • WITH THE 19TH CENTURY TRANSMITTED BY COLONIZATION
    OTTOMANS TRIED TRANSMIT WESTREN IZATION ON THE
    URBAN DEVELOPMENT.
    • INFLUENCES IN THE 2OTH CENTURY
    • DESPITE THE CONSTANT GROWTH IN POPULATION THE PLAN
    REMAINED THE SAME.
    • NNEW URBAN PLANS HAD NEGLECTED THE RESTORATION AND
    CONSERVATION OF HERITAGE SITE
    • WITH COLONIALISM THE TRADISTIONAL HOUSE MODEL CAME TO
    AND END.
    • CITY CENTRE WAS MOVED TO SOUTH WESTRENIZATION/20TH
    CENTURY
    • WITH EXPANSION OF URBAN FABRIC NEW ROADS AND BRIDGES
    WERE BUILT
    • A GRID SYSTEM WAS PROPOSED.

    WE SEE HOW URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN BAGHDAD


    SHOWED TRADITIONAL FORM WAS BASED ON SPACE
    HIERARCHY KEEPING IN MIND PHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF THE \
    SURROUNDING.

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