URBAN PROPERTIES IN CONSTRUCTING THE FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONS IN IRAQ

Abstract

In spite of the efforts exerted in the previous studies in limiting the regions in Iraq, but these studies were specialized in limiting regions that were closer to the traditional geographical divisions, as the standard of harmony is one of the standards used in the regional division , also administrative divisions which are not useful in specific conditions to be as main  component for limiting the developmental regions, as an issue which is to be considered, because these governorates vary in their administrative parts, and this is the problem of the study. Thus the hypothesis of the study was based on that the method followed in classifying and planning the functional regions map in Iraq, in the light of what the previous studies had stated, had depended on the standard of the topographic and social harmony, as a result it does not differ from the method which was followed in carrying out the process But the aim of the study was concerned with limiting the developmental regions in accordance with the characteristics mentioned above  included the applied aspect of the study by adopting the standards of the

discriminative properties  for the regions , which are amounting to (81) region, and which represent the urban properties, and to divide Iraq into four developmental regions, by using the factorial analysis pattern as one of the quantitative patterns in the analysis, then to find a group of the discriminative properties factors which each one of them is distinguished by and the benefit of these factors is clarified in the possibility of comparing the regions with each other, and finally the conclusions which stated the properties of each region, and its similarity with the other regions, which adds the feature of comparison among these factors, besides knowing the nature of the spatial gathering for the standards of the discriminative properties of regions, as the results of the matrix of the abstracted factors for the collection of urbanization properties, had shown the consolidation status and similarity in the urbanized properties in the southern region.