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Opportunities for Practicing Sustainable Building Construction in Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2018
Iraq
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
land degradation
land records
The construction sector of the Kurdistan region of the Republic of Iraq has witnessed a huge development in the construction sector last ten years However there is a lack of awareness and legislation regarding sustainable construction in the buildings sector The aim of the paper is to find the required mechanism to introduce sustainable practice and implement sustainable construction in the buildings construction sector in Northern Iraq The main objectives of this study are identifying the barriers in sustainable construction in Northern Iraq and investigate the law and regulations in deali
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Industrialization and Urbanization in Turkey at the beginning of the 20th Century

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2020
Turkey
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land administration
land investments
The starting point of this study is the fact that every production system entails a specific spatial organization and changes its physical environment This research is an attempt to understand the industrialization period of Turkeys Early Republican Period 1930s and the spatial effects of the new production system Right after the Turkish War of Independence The Republican Government of Turkey had aimed to establish an independent country and started to carry out a modernization and contemporization project This project had different dimensions appealing to the institutional economical socia
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Visual pollution phenomena and sensitivity of residences in heritage city centers Case of: Old district of Manama city, Kingdom of Bahrain

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Bahrain
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
land deals
land governance
land law
land ownership
land records
land rights
land tenure
land-use planning
Image of the ancient cities across the Arab region has been changed The urbanization progress and their subsequent urban changes are of rapid acceleration due to the population increase in the named cities affecting the encompassed old districts in many respects The mentioned changes are forked into two main branches controlled and uncontrolled On one side the controlled category abide by the urban regulations in terms of the visual representation of the old districts On the other side the uncontrolled counterpart breaches these regulations and their logical assumptions ending up in many ur
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Urban Form and Real Estate Value in Msheireb Downtown Doha, Qatar

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2023
Qatar
Urban Tenure
land administration
land investments
In the late 20th century Dohas rapid urbanization and globalization led to the loss of housing and the compact traditional urban fabric in the old city center The Qatari government and Msheireb Properties developed Msheireb Downtown Doha to bring urban living back with a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional urban fabric and modern life conveniences Our studys primary objective is to investigate the relationship between urban form and the rental value of residential units identifying factors that might influence rental asking prices The paper examines morphological characteristic
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The Coordination Of Actors In Urban Regeneration Projects: Fikirtepe, Istanbul, Turkey

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Turkey
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
community land rights
expropriation
land acquisitions
land administration
land law
land rights
It is necessary for urban regeneration projects to be carried out successfully in coordination with other actors During the process of realising regeneration many actors and strategicallygiven decision play a crucial role The ways how actorsfactors are involved in the process the relationships founded among them and investigating the methods followed during the process constitute the content of this study The purpose of this study is to develop an approach with regard to the coordination established between actorsfactors that participated during the regeneration process This study covers th
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Urban Acupuncture in Large Cities: Filtering Framework to Select Sensitive Urban Spots in Riyadh for Effective Urban Renewal

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2021
Saudi Arabia
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
community land rights
land access
land conflicts
land governance
land information systems
land management
land rights
urban land
New revitalization and regeneration strategies are currently taking place as a scheme for reassessing urban spaces This paper as a result navigates the theory of Urban Acupuncture UA as a quick and effective tool that can be adopted in large cities Using Riyadh city as a case study it discusses how this tool can be used to achieve maximum results with minimal effort in the most critical places Riyadh city is the capital of Saudi Arabia and is considered one of the fastestgrowing metropolitan cities in the Arab world Through time it has transformed into a city with leftover open spaces and a
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LAND-at-scale Iraq

Policy dialogue on legislative reform to improve land governance and secure tenure rights by registering and resolving land claims for vulnerable IDPs in Iraq

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2024
Iraq
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
land documentation
post-conflict settings
land policies
land rights
displacement
land tenure
housing rights
capacity development
legal empowerment
This one-pager provides details on the LAND-at-scale project in Iraq. This project is implemented by UN-Habitat and The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HIIL), and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via the Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency (RVO).
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Property Rights and Resource Governance -Iraq

Reports & Research
May, 2020
Iraq
land administration
land governance
post-conflict settings
human settlements
land tenure
With some of the earliest known human settlements in the world, most of Iraq together with Kuwait, eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey constitute Mesopotamia, also referred to by historians as the ‘cradle of civilization’. Iraq has a surface area of approximately 437,072 square kilometers, making it slightly larger than twice the size of Idaho. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the west, and Syria to the northwest.
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Land Registration and Property Rights in Iraq

Reports & Research
January, 2005
Iraq
land administration
land registration
land titling
development
land tenure
Land registration and property rights in Iraq have deep historical foundations reaching back to the Hammurabic period. However, the current land registration system owes more to the 400-year Ottoman occupation of Iraq and the subsequent interval under the British mandate. Under these regimes, land policy was self-serving and designed to maintain and reinforce the existing political power. This was done through the allocation of land to influential individuals who supported the incumbent regime.
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Contribution of Earth Observation and Geospatial Information for Urban Planning of Historic Cities’ Centres: The Case Study of Nicosia, Cyprus

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Cyprus
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
land administration
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations state that cities and human settlements need to be more inclusive, safe and resilient. In Europe cities have experienced dramatic physical, social and economic changes during the last decades while historic centres of European cities, among the most important assets of the European cultural heritage, are living paradoxes. They are defined as “a collection of beauty, icon of well-being, model of sustainability, but abandoned”.