Abu Nawas Development Project, Iraq, Asia
Year 1981 latitude: 33° 17' longitude: 44° 23' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Planar and Skaarup & Jespersen Inhabitants Target population Town website Town related links http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=701 Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
The Abu Nawas Development Project is part of the city of Baghdad. In the 1970's, the Municipality of Baghdad embarked on an extensive upgrading and renewal scheme for the city, including several new housing developments. In December 1980 Planar, a Baghdad based planning and architectural firm, and Skaarup & Jespersen (Copenhagen) were commissioned to submit a conceptual layout ford 3km long site on the Tigris river, in central Baghdad. The project was to be essentially residential, in the form of low-rise and high standing town houses designed to replace dilapidated areas. At this initial stage, the would-be users were not identified, although the brief required dwelling units of different sizes, which would attract high-income families. Most of the present occupants are senior presidential palace staff. The general layout had to allow for long stretches of new development, interspersed with some existing structures of architectural and historical value. The scheme involves low rise, medium to high density urban housing based on terraced units. source: http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=701
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