The Potential of Urban Green Spaces in Achieving Sustainable Urban Alignment for Oil Resources-Based Cities

Abstract

Cities based on oil resources -which are primarily mining cities- continue to serve as growth hubs that attract workers. This demonstrates the existence of urban relationships at various levels, reciprocal between them and their surrounding region, including environmental relationships, And social and economic relations, which impose challenges on its reality, and urban problems that must be paid attention to, as a result of urban and human expansion on the one hand, and the expansion in the exploitation of the city’s resources with all its challenges and urban problems on the other hand, which highlights the necessity of finding sustainable urban solutions for the reality of cities based on oil resources, especially the Iraqi ones, However, these sustainable solutions often clash with the economic power of these resources, which makes many of the ideas of sustainability and urban sustainability idealistic visions if they are to be achieved in their current perspective to address the urban and environmental challenges and problems resulting from them, due to the restrictions and obstacles they impose from the perspective of employers, In view of the above, the importance of the research that seeks to achieve sustainable urban alignment between the exploitation of these oil and gas resources associated with them, and the challenges and problems resulting from them, and the realistic green potential of the city based on the oil resources themselves, as an adaptation of the city’s potential to address some of its problems, and with a standardized analytical approach based on the GIS-ArcMap 10.8 program in the analysis of a selected Iraqi city based on oil resources, is clearly evident.