THE ROLE OF URBAN SUSTAINABILITY IN THEGROWTH OF NEW CITIES

Abstract

Cities can be defined as human creations that are operated in accordance with the principles and approaches on which societies are based. The experience of new cities is one of the policies that many countries follow to solve their urban problems which is considered a pattern of organization and planning of the regional sphere that leads to the balance of the urban system network for the purpose of absorbing the excess population and activities and inspiring urban growth. Because cities are environmental, social, and economic systems, the role of sustainability comes in building cities that are more efficient in using resources, improving services, ensuring a better quality of life now and for future generations, and create balanced, self-renewing human systems that integrate with each other to form one basic system that leads to sustainable growth for these cities. So, the research problem in the absence of the role of sustainability in its dimensions (environmental, social, and economic) in establishing new cities. The research aims to activate the role of the concept of sustainability (environmental, social, and economic) in planning and establishing new cities, by focusing on issues (environmental, social, and economic) and integrating them equally with each other when implementing new cities, according to a hypothesis that activating the role of the concept of sustainability in planning and implementing new cities leads to ensuring their continued growth and expansion. The research will address two main axes, the first one deals with the policy of new cities, the principles of their establishment and classification, the concept of urban growth in them, the standards of sustainable cities , while the second presenting the concept of urban sustainability and its dimensions, and analysis of the experience of growing up a new global city, reaching the most important effective indicators that can be applied in the implementation of new Iraqi cities.