Baghdad Traditional Neighborhoods between the Renovation and the Architectural heritage (A Morphological Description of the Pollution of the Urban Scene)

The neighborhoods and old traditional alleys in the city were the gate to history and the development of any city Baghdad included with its old neighborhoods. With these neighborhoods, the city losses its historic identity. These neighborhoods have always indicated the morphologic development of its structural surrounding, hence, the importance to maintain the antiquity of the region and to stop any modern invasion, so to speak, that tries to change the organic structure of the patterns and different land uses.

In spite of the necessity of progress and development in the field of architecture inside the city in its streets, buildings and alleys, that should not ‘taint’ the traditional areas so as to keep then intact  and to maintain it morphologic history. They definitely need renovation and maintenance but in the same time not in a manner that would distort it historic identity without causing a substantial change in the historic fabric of the old city. Such change would waste out the historic identity of the city and the blend of the old and new would deface the civilization outlook. Both cases are undesirable and unrequired when choosing the alternative to maintain the architectural heritage of the component of the structural fabric of the old neighborhoods in different land uses.