Open AccessEquation of mixed land use that achieve sustainability
Author(s) -
Samir Nori Alourafi,
Areaj Khairy Alrawi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/737/1/012180
Subject(s) - sustainability , neighbourhood (mathematics) , sustainable city , environmental planning , social sustainability , sustainable development , land use , business , urban planning , geography , civil engineering , political science , engineering , mathematics , ecology , mathematical analysis , law , biology
Our cities are far from achieving sustainability. This requires sustainable approaches and strategies when planning urban land use for our cities as the basis for the distribution of activities and services in the city and can be considered as the basis for the sustainability of the city. The mixed use strategy is one of the sustainability strategies. It has been adopted in our research and an equation Lum has been adopted in measuring the sustainability of the study area of the Holy City of Karbala. This equation is a measure of the extent to which uses compete with residential use, which is dominant in residential neighborhoods. This equation suggests five cases of sustainability (very unsustainable, unsustainable, low sustainability, sustainable, very sustainable). The important conclusion are 3% of the neighbourhoods are very unsustainable neighbourhood, 14% of the neighborhoods are unsustainable, 48% of the neighborhoods are Low sustainability, 34% of the neighborhoods are sustainable, 1.5% of the neighbourhoods are very sustainable. The main recommendations are to adopt a mixed use strategy in the future master plans in the planning of residential neighborhoods in the holy city of Karbala to reduce the time, distance and cost of trips by reducing the distance between uses to achieve the principles of sustainability in all its aspects (environmental, economic and social), relying on walking within neighborhoods for residents, reducing air pollution and noise by reducing the use of vehicles within neighborhoods.