My Home Town Sustainability

sustainability in Baghdad

Assignment (2)

Prepare by : Ali Dawod P62249

Prof. Riza Atiq Abdullah bin O.K. Rahmat

Introduction

In this presentation we will show how is the sustainability in Baghdad and we will point to the main aspects which supported the sustainable and we will suggest what should do to maintain and improve this sustainability.

Background

Baghdad is the capital of the Republic of Iraq. The area of Baghdad is (2,260 km2 ) The population of Baghdad as of 2011 is approximately (7,216,040) person , making it the largest city in Iraq the second largest city in the Arab World (after Cairo, Egypt).

Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Within a short time of its inception, Baghdad evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center for the Islamic World. This in addition to housing several key academic institutions (e.g. House of Wisdom) garnered the city a worldwide reputation as the "Centre of Learning". Throughout the High Middle Ages ,Baghdad was considered to be the largest city in the world with an estimated population of 1,200,000 people.

Social and Economic Importance

Baghdad is one of the most important Social and Trade center in Iraq. Baghdad contains all denominations of the Iraqi people (Muslims , Christians, Sabena, Yazidis). And also a various ethnicities ( Arab and Kurd). Therefore many of a big companies and Traders come to invest in Baghdad. Also Baghdad has a lot of tourist places. All these led to Baghdad receive more than 10,000,000 tourist per year.

Economy

Most of Iraq’s manufacturing, finance, and commerce is concentrated in and around Baghdad. At least half of the country’s large-scale manufacturing and much of its smaller manufacturing is located in the Baghdad governorate. The exception is heavy industry (petroleum, iron, steel, and petrochemicals), which is situated near the oil fields in the north (Karkūk) and the south (in Al-Baṣrah and Al-Zubayr). Most economic activities are owned or controlled by the government, which both stimulates and monopolizes the country’s economic activities. War and economic sanctions contributed to the steady erosion of the city’s economic base beginning in the 1980s.The government is the city’s principal employer. Hundreds of thousands of citizens work for the government, directly or indirectly, in the civil service, in government-run educational institutions, and in government-owned industrial and commercial enterprises.

Manufacturing

Modern manufacturing began in the 1920s and ’30s, spurred by the Law for the Encouragement of Industry in 1929. Early factory production centered on textiles (cotton ginning, spinning, and weaving), food processing, brick making, and cigarettes. Beginning in the 1950s, the government used increased oil revenues to develop manufacturing industries. Subsequently the city produced a wide variety of consumer and industrial goods, including processed foods and beverages, tobacco, textiles, clothes, leather goods, wood products, furniture, paper and printed material, bricks and cement, chemicals, plastics, electrical equipment, and metal and nonmetallic products

FOOD

In Iraq and especially in Baghdad we have many traditional meals . Each part of Iraq are known special meals ,for instance :Arbel ( north of iraq ) is known with very delicious yogurt called ( Laban Arbel).Baghdad has many different meals like ( Dolma . Briani, ).

Also in Albasra south of Iraq has a best fish meals ( there is special way for cooking fish in Iraq called MASGUF , It is a cooking fish on the wood :

Transportation in Baghdad

The transportation system of Baghdad is complicated because there is many difficult events forced and prevent it to get better . That’s why the transportation in baghdad still same since 50 years ago or more than. The most affect event is the political situation in Iraq and successive wars .

In general we have a public transportation :1- train 2- taxi3- van(14 person or 24 person)4- bus

and the privet cars……….

Train

Baghdad Central Station is the main train station in the Baghdad, is located in the Karkh district of Baghdad . The foundation stone laying in 1948, and was officially opened in 1952.

Also called as the world station because the idea created around it be the crossroads between East and West, where Iran from the east, Syria and Turkey and the Hijaz from the West

And are going regularly to other Iraqi provinces under the auspices of the General Company for Iraqi Railways.

Buses and vans

Buses and vans are common way for transport in Baghdad. There are many bus station in baghdad and any one can transport from any where to any where . The buses and vans fees cheep and flexible .

The main problems in transportation in Baghdad

1. Increasing number of cars.

2. There no controlling for Importation cars.

3. Many checkpoints in almost highway in baghdad.

4. Old traffic system .

Recommendation

1. Remove all checkpoints in main roads and highways.

2. Update the traffic system.3. Redesign some of the main roads linking

major commercial areas.4. Apply requirements and controls on the

import of cars.

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