The Impact of Population Changes on the Functional Composition of the City of Samarra and Its Prospects.

The building of a city is made up of a complex system of activities that vary in the importance of distribution on a geographical area within the city depending on the city's size and importance to its surrounding region. Due to its ability to examine spatial correlations and variations, the geographer plays an important role in studying and evaluating the various land uses in the city by disclosing the disadvantages and positives associated with their distribution. As a result, the study of the city's functional uses (composition) illustrates the diversity of the city's activities and the activities that exist on its territory. This research is concerned with the study (the impact of population changes on the functional composition of the city of Samarra and future horizons) by clarifying the population changes of the city and its reflection on how the land of the city and the activities that were built on it now and questioned in the future. These functions and analysis of their geographical distribution and the use of planning standards to identify the functional and spatial efficiency of the various jobs, and the extent of these functions to serve the city's population and region. The research showed that the city suffers from an imbalance in the relationship between the population and jobs, such as the commercial function, which contributed to the security conditions in the transfer of this function from the old city to the new quarters without reference to planning standards, as well as the phenomenon of confusion in some residential quarters through which Randomization in the distribution as well as for the educational function, which can be addressed part of its problems through the optimal use of the space available to them .. etc. of other functions. As a result, the research will attempt to assess the problems and provide answers, as well as sketch a future image of these functions by examining future population growth and planning standards to improve the structure of Samarra city's urban environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]