An Analytical Study of the Urban Land Use Map in the Central Commercial District of the City of Dohuk (Using Modern Technologies).

Abstract

 The location of the city of Dohuk is a clear point, and a transitional stage with great commercial activity, it is a link and a crossroads of trade routes between distant and disparate regions in production, contributed effectively to its growth and revitalization of its commercial function, and added the function of collection and distribution, and made it one of the complementary links to the chain of communication at the local and regional level, Which was linking the Anatolian plateau with the southern plains of Iraq.

There are also political and historical factors and circumstances that led to a change in the commercial composition of the city of Duhok, and that the expansion of the commercial function of cities is related to population expansion, because the size and capacity of the commercial job must be directly proportional to the size of the city and its total population. The study concluded that the expansion of the central commercial area in the city of Duhok through the development of the city and the expansion of the size of the city and the increase in population, the distribution of patterns of commercial units in the study area takes a close pattern, but between agglomeration and randomness.