Schematic Analysis of the Green Areas in Al-Hillah City

Abstract

The increase in the civilization levels led to increasing interest of the public gardens and green areas and making the appropriate efforts to protect them from the urban extension and to provide human revival places.

This research showed the importance of urban planning in land use, especially for the entertainment purposes to ensure the availability of a healthy environment to the city population.

The research is a field study of the green areas in Al-Hillah City, their distribution within the city, green area per capita, and showing the deficiency in it, the problems facing the green areas lasting in the city.  It is rounded off with the conclusions and recommendations.

The research problem is that the disconcerted urban growth produced negative effects in different dimensions; one of them was the negative environmental dimension. In fact this growth affected distribution of the green areas inside the cities and the surrounding green areas. So the research hypothesis is that Al-Hillah city needs a schematic environmental processing to increase the city environmental function proficiency through increasing the green areas which achieves the environmental and the health requirements for its population. The research method includes collecting data, analyzing them, and specifying the most important environmental axis required for the city urban pattern and privacy.

Keywords: Green Areas, Al-Hillah, SWOT