Crisis of Upgrading Poor Urban Environment;Urban Development Projects of Sustaining Communities Ecological urban space

Abstract

A society in crisis presents both a challenge and an opportunity, that’s why the sustainability of communities finds itself today forced to represents an integral challenge to the economy, the institutions, and the values of its society. At the same time, it provides an opportunity for changing structures that no longer work particularly for the needs of the most excluded and poorest who are often marginalized. Another manifestation of crisis is the emergence of desolated urban built environment, a phenomenon linked to a breakdown in ingredients of life as well as rules of human, social behaviors. This research aims to clear out the causes of the Deterioration in the physical urban environment of the city, and present the experiment of the development of the City of Baghdad to some local communities as a way of achieving upgrading urban built environment to these local communities with a view to sustaining socially. In order to create sustaining communities, the solution lies in the uses of the participatory urban appraisal methodology, Finally, the research has attain conclusion that; Since urban development has always been a key aspect of local community cooperation to achieve Qualitative upgrading, the urban appraisal methodology for completion upgrading urban built environment for sustaining community should diagnose the variables of many aspects: political, economical, social, technological, and ecological and taking them into consideration in the development urban projects to show a model capable to repeat in futuristic projects.