Territory, politics of power, and physical spatial networks: The case of Baghdad, Iraq

Rashid, Mahbub; Alobaydi, Dhirgham

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.08.031

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“…After the toppling of the Saddam Hussein administration, the U.S. administration had a decision of executing restricted de-Ba'athification or looking for a substantially more clearing system. They initially resorted to the last option since it was considered particularly imperative to dispense with the last remnants of Saddam Hussein's administration to prevent a similar kind of government from resurfacing (Rashid, & Alobaydi, 2015).…”

Section: Ethno-sectarian Division and The Predicaments Of National Inmentioning

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Ethno-Sectarian Division and the Predicaments of National Integration in Plural Societies

Qader

Masum

Rahaman

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Objective: The purpose of this paper is to examine the problem of sectarianism in Nigeria and Iraq, as both countries provide typical examples of ethno-sectarian divided societies characterized by huge contrasts in social norms and religious values among the citizens. Methodology: Adopting content analysis, the current paper argues that ethno-sectarianism negatively affects political process in both countries which invariably undermines their effort toward national integration. The paper seeks to answer the following question: will restructuring the Nigerian and Iraqi federal relations contribute to resolving sectarian tensions? First, the paper examines the sources of sectarianism in both countries. The paper therefore examines how ethno-sectarianism shaped and molds the polity of both countries, where ethnic and religious values play major role in determining citizen's reaction to political phenomenon Results: Coordination mechanisms such as framework legislation and dispute resolution committees are also necessary to ensure that the transition to viable federalism occurs with minimal encumbrance. To respect the complex and diverse identities of nations, safeguards need to be established to protect the rights of sub-federal nations. For example, the political future of Iraq and Nigeria is not a return to failed approaches of division, but rather the construction of a viable modern federal state that promotes unity, political compromise, and consensus building. Implication: This paper therefore posits that there is a need for deep mental changes and social adjustment among the citizens of both countries where attributes such as tolerance, dignity of human persons and above all patriotism must be re-defined and this requires collaboration between political leaders, community leaders and religious bodies as the problem is societal bound.

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Section: Ethno-sectarian Division and The Predicaments Of National Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethno-Sectarian Division and the Predicaments of National Integration in Plural Societies

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Masum

Rahaman

et al. 2016

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“…The compound network of city and transport network reflects the spatial structure of urban agglomeration and its spatial organization mechanism. Space syntax provides a set of theories, techniques, and measures used for analyzing the syntactic structure of physical spatial networks and social-spatial relational patterns in urban and building context (Amorim, Filho, and Cruz 2014;Rashid and Alobaydi 2015). Hillier and Hanson proposed the theoretical foundations of space syntax in The Social Logic of Space (Hillier and Hanson 1984), and then Hillier elaborated space syntax in Space is the Machine (Hillier 1996).…”

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“…Research about Space syntax goes on to study the relationship between activity and space, and further discuss how this relationship is formed by movement and co-presence (Hillier 2002(Hillier , 2007Penn and Turner 2004). Then, space syntax is utilized in research on different types of activities and their interaction with space (Karimi 2012;Yuan et al 2016;Zheng et al 2016), and the physical and social integration of city are discussed (Morales et al 2019;Rashid and Alobaydi 2015). Space syntax and methods derived from it are widely applied to analyze the function, integration and segregation of street networks, and these analytical methods can reveal the multi-scale structure of space (Karimi 2012;O ¨nder and Gigi 2010;Shen and Karimi 2016).…”

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Understanding the City-transport System of Urban Agglomeration through Improved Space Syntax Analysis

Zheng

Wang

2021

International Regional Science Review

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From the perspective of city-transport system, this article applies space syntax to analyze the physical integration of cities. Traditionally, space syntax is mainly applied to urban areas, buildings, and other scales. However, when space syntax is applied to the configuration analysis of urban agglomeration, the change of scale causes changes in spatial perception and human behavioral patterns. Thus, we present a new method of space syntax. This method defines the lane and track between entrance and exit, and city as node, which represents small-scale space. Infrastructure, such as stations, entrances, and exits, are defined as links. The urban agglomeration is thus transformed into a topological network, and then displayed as a bipartite graph of cities and routes. We take the urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Middle Reaches (YRMR) as the case study area and analyze its spatial configuration from the perspectives of local and integral, interfaces at different scales, gaps, evolution of the dual foreground and background networks, and evolution of the transport networks. The results reveal the way cities integrate with each other and further reveal the multi-scale spatial structure of urban agglomeration.

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Space Syntax: A Network-Based Configurational Approach to Studying Urban Morphology

Rashid

2019

The Mathematics of Urban Morphology

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Territory, politics of power, and physical spatial networks: The case of Baghdad, Iraq

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Ethno-Sectarian Division and the Predicaments of National Integration in Plural Societies

Ethno-Sectarian Division and the Predicaments of National Integration in Plural Societies

Understanding the City-transport System of Urban Agglomeration through Improved Space Syntax Analysis

Space Syntax: A Network-Based Configurational Approach to Studying Urban Morphology

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