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The historic city of Mosul, with its unique urban characteristics, is one of the few cities that is still inhabited, but the recent war has made it lose important and large parts of its traditional fabric, especially its distinctive riverfront. This research deals with the principle of Integrative Conservation as a conservation approach that is characterized by interest in both the urban and human dimensions, and it can provide adequate means to accomplish the process of preserving the historic urban fabric in a way that meets the contemporary requirements of life and preserves the historic value. The research aims to explore what are the criteria for Integrative Conservation most affecting the vitality of the historic urban fabric on the riverfront of Mosul old city. This is followed by the methodology of analysing previous studies to determine the most important Integrative Conservation criteria, and it is assumed that the accessibility and connectivity criteria are the most influential on the vitality of the city, using the Space Syntax to measure its indicators.

ABSTRACT:The conservation of intangible heritage in historical regions has recently become a progressively important topic in the international level. Till recently, in the protection process of historical cities, the concentration has been on the tangible cultural heritage, built environment and historical buildings in old districts ;while safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage has been generally neglected. This paper aims at highlighting the significant role of the intangible heritage in the urban renewal policies of old historical districts. It undertakes the conservation and urban renewal activities of Mosul Old City (MOC) as a case study, and it explains that there are broad distinctions in various aspects between space structural analysis and intangible elements investigation, which designates that the intangible elements do not correlate to material or synthetic items within the urban fabric in the same high grade that is associated with the inhabitants memory of the historical area. It emphasizes the importance of the preservation of intangible heritage besides the tangible one in the urban renewal policies.

Built Heritage is a significant division of cultural heritage. Thanks to their economic, symbolic, social, and cultural values, Built Heritage performs an essential task in achieving cultural distinction and promoting local identity. The paper focuses on the growing role of HBIM in the field of the Built Heritage due to the benefits of BIM systems, which are characterized by the creation of digital information models with multi-dimensions. These dimensions give HBIM an essential task in the representation of Built Heritage that defined by multi-criteria. The study seeks to determine the approaches of utilizing BIM techniques in the Built Heritage area to classify the current trends of the studies that dealt with the research problem. Also, it aims to analyse HBIM techniques that employed in the discipline of Built Heritage, highlighting the procedures and methods used in these studies and researches, underlining the integration of HBIM with other technologies (e.g. Virtual Reality-VR, Augmented Reality-AR, Artificial Intelligence techniques -AI), and determining the potential of the HBIM system in these fields. The research is established on academic studies and researches analyses that have adopted the HBIM system in the sector of the Built Heritage to present a set of conclusions for current and future use of this technology.

According to UIA-CIMES Declaration, several governments have included a group of intermediate cities in their program for sustainable urban development. In third world countries, many of these urban areas still suffer from neglect and shortcomings in the production process of well-thought-out urban expansion plans, regardless of their capacity and potential for urbanization and transformation. This research aims to take advantage of the digital capabilities of GIS software to study the most effective factors in formulating urban expansion plans necessary to develop appropriate policies for intermediate cities from the perspective of UIA-CIMES. Its methodology focuses on identifying a range of factors affecting the development of the master plan for these cities, including identifying many aspects related to sustainable urban development such as cultural, physical, economic, and environmental aspects, with their details and land uses, besides determining several urban factors and indicators approved for differentiation and classification of expansion areas. This is followed by an analytical study of the Idrisi program on the city of Sinjar in northern Iraq as a case study to provide a comprehensive view of the urbanization of the city in a long-term GIS plan. Idrisi is characterized by its ability to deal with raster images more than vector graphics, and the ease of working and training. After extracting the results, planning trends are analyzed and identified to show the appropriate land use for each of the mentioned expansion areas. These results are available to the decision-maker in formulating the scenario of the new master plan for Sinjar city 2040. The analysis of the potential expansion areas utilizing Idrisi has revealed the existence of two types of regions in Sinjar: basic expansion zones and non-basic expansion zones, and the study of its future expansion must be based on the principles of sustainable urban development according to long-term planning.