Strategies for Developing Residential Use of Satellite Cities
Al-Noor City, which is one of the cities affiliated to Al-Najaf Governorate in southern Iraq, this city suffers from the reluctance of the residents who were granted plots of land by the local government in Najaf to build and live there despite the ownership of more than 16,000 residential plots of land to the population, the study area enjoys many developmental elements for various economic activities in the field of agriculture, industry, trade and tourism. However, job opportunities are scarce and investment projects do not exist, either within the city or in its region. The research team adopted scientific methods in analysis and building the necessary strategies and using similar examples, and through several planning and engineering programs such as GIS, AutoCAD and others, a set of maps included in the research paper were extracted. It was completed gathering the necessary information to diagnose the development potential of the city and its surroundings through the technical methods used in this field such as personal interviews, questionnaire forms, the search for official documents and visits to the relevant institutions. that information was analyzed according to the SWOT matrix to come up with a strategic vision that would make this city (al-Noor City) capable of attracting residents and relieving the great pressure on the city of Najaf. The most important conclusion of the paper is the need to implement a strategy based on enhancing the tourism potential in the sea of Najaf and the lakes near the city. Enhancing investment in industrial construction projects, especially the brick, cement and food industries, as well as paying attention to the agricultural potential of the study area, in addition to enhancing water, sewage, the environment and main and secondary roads services