REFLECTIONS OF LAND PRICES ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT IN THE HOLY CITY OF KARBALA

Abstract

The research aims to show the impact resulting from the variation in land prices on the urban environment at the level of the neighborhoods of the city of Karbala, consisting of (68) residential neighborhoods, the high prices, the style of construction, the techniques used and the random all reflect the economic level and the condition of the population in the city, therefore, the research was interested in shedding light on the impact of change and variation in the price of land, through the study of some aspects and tracking the research found that the rise in prices in the old city resulted in a change in the form of the old morphology, which was taking the form of a curved convex, its center is the two shrines and its lower edges are the main streets and replaced by a concave morphology centered on the two shrines and its upper edges are the main streets, the research also found that the functional change has contributed to the rise in the price of land to a degree, at the level of the old city, the street surrounding the shrines witnessed the highest percentage change in the price of land, the price of land (80%) increased from the surrounding residential or located behind the street, while the lowest change was in Maytham Al-Tammar Street (11.1%), this price was translated into high-rise buildings that contributed to changing the morphology of the street, the research also found that green areas were more vulnerable to random, as random constituted (18%) of the total random areas in the study area, and it was also concluded that the high prices had caused not the emergence of a quantitative housing deficit, but there was a qualitative housing deficit as well.