This document provides an overview of the sustainability of New Baghdad, an administrative district in Baghdad, Iraq. It discusses developments in the areas of transportation (including buses and a planned metro system), water access, education, social diversity, the economy, leisure activities, recycling, healthcare, energy sources, and employment opportunities. The district was established in 1945 to accommodate population growth and follows a grid street layout. Overall the document outlines key aspects and developments relating to sustainability in New Baghdad.

1. KKKA 6414
Sustainable Urban Design
SUSTAINABILITY
OF MY HOMETOWN
NEW BAGHDAD
Prepared by
Haider Farhan Hashim P65405

2. IRAQ MAP

3. NEW BAGHDAD DISTRICT

4. PREFACE
• New Baghdad is one of the main administrative district in Baghdad
city. This districts :
• Kadhimiah
• Adhamiah
• Karrada
• New Baghdad Adhami

5. Historical Point
New Baghdad was established in1945 as a result
of population growth ,and after that government
began-at that time- to look for a suitable land for
building this district as a modern city with a large
residential houses and wide wooded streets , in
addition to shoping and entertainment places.
They planned this district of 4 main and wide
streets , these streets are parallel to each other
and perpendicular to another 4 streets with the
same measurements, and then this district began
To develop step by step till now.

6. Development
We can talking about the development of this
district in several scales like:
1- Transportation. 6-Leisure &green centers.
2-Water. 7-Recycling.
3-Education. 8-Healthcare.
4-Social. 9-Energy.
5-Economy. 10-Employment.

7. Transportation
• Transport in New Baghdad based
on private transport institutes which
are conduct the actitivities of mini
buses inside the terminals.
• In New Baghdad 4 big terminals
so the people can easly travel inside
city(Baghdad) or to another cities.

8. Transportation( continue)
• Now The ministry of transportion has provided
fleet of new modern buses as a first step in order
to develop the public transport in Baghdad.
• As a solution to congestion problem will begin
impelementing the Baghdad Metro(39 km)

9. Water
• Municipality of Baghdad
has completed a big section
of a big Rusafa water project
which will provide the water
for more than 6 million person
in the city(500 liter/person/day)

10. Education
• There are many schools
that are spread in most
neighborhoods of this
district(145 schools) in
addition to the university
of technology and technological
institute.

11. University of technology picture

12. Social
• New baghdad caracterized
as a mixture a of religions .
• It’s inhabited by Muslims,
Christians and Sabians.
• It’s contains lots of Mosques
and about (14) churchs and
temples.

13. Economy
• New baghdad market is very
big market which is meeting
with the needs of this district.
• It’s contains many small
factories such as plumbing
and water tanks factories.

14. Leisure and green centers
• there is a lot of gardens,parks
, and amusement parks in this
district like ( the army canal
gardens and Palestine street
amusement parks).

15. Recycling
• Waste is recycled to produced the coal (kind of
carbon) which is used in production of elecetric
energy.
Healthcare
• There are many health centers which are services
with low wages(sometimes the medicine is free).

16. Energy
• Generation of the electric
Power is essentially based
on the gass stations and
dams.
• There are studies to use
solar energy because of
high temperatures which
is reach to (57 centigrade)
in summer.

17. Employment
Government began developing employment
opportunities through:
• Implementation of new service projects.
• Opening new factories .
• Making flexible investment laws.

18. End
In every development there is a need for:
• Funds.
• Human energy.
• Time.
In my country we have funds and human
energy but our real challenge is with the time.

19. Thank you for your kind
Attention