Baghdad Urban Renewal

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Creator(s)

urban planner: Architectural and Planning Partnership (English, founded ca. 1970)

Time period

creation date: 1980s

Location

Site: Baghdad (Baghdād, Iraq)

Cultural context

Iraqi

Islamic

British

Description

With the backing of the municipality, the Aminat al-'Asima, Warren and his planners first identified two districts as "preservation areas," one around the mosque of al-Kazimiya, "the Golden Mosque," with its four soaring minarets and vast golden dome, the other at Bab al-Shaikh, the neighborhood surrounding the mosque of al-Gilani, a more modest but no less beautiful structure.

Then, in those areas, they picked out several hundred houses whose outstanding architecture made them worth preserving-

cross section, showing overall services system, generic modern house in Khadamiyah neighborhood

Work type

Development area

Keywords

Urban planning

Urban renewal

Architecture, Islamic --Iraq

Architecture --Conservation and restoration

Housing

Residential architecture

Urban development

Persian Gulf States