Resilience and sustainability analysis of urban residential redevelopment projects: Al-Kadhimiya as a case study

Abstract

Despite the rich heritage of Iraqi local architecture, there is a loss of architectural regional character of existing cities' urban design. Key research issues include employing this local architectural heritage in developing resilient and sustainable urban design. Many urban architectural attempts have emerged in the last decades to achieve the integration of modernity in urban development. It represents the gap between theoretical and practical application in this field, the loss and marginalization of this cultural and historical heritage can be traced back to the lack of clear strategies for urban development processes in the old cities such as Al-Kadhimiya, one of the important traditional and religious cities in Iraq. As well as the absence of an effective role for the decision-makers, architectural departments and bodies working in the urban development process. The Key indicators of urban resilience and sustainability were identified through an extensive review of the related studies. Followed by conducting a comprehensive questionnaire by selecting different segments of society (157 respondents). The questionnaire contains 15 indicators organized with questions. Respondents' perspectives were collected according to the 5-level Likert scale and demographic information. The analysis of the main component was used to organize the indicators according to comprehensive main groups, and three main components were identified: "urban structure and environment", "strategy and leadership" and the "social aspect". The results showed that security indicator is the most important among the indicators of resilience and urban sustainability, followed by the diversity indicator and the cultural creativity index respectively, while the social capital indicator received the least important indicators. The "contemporary scene" represents a confusing and unregulated phenomenon that is far from local or global.