Cultural heritage represents one of the most important resources for development processes, and cultural routes as cultural elements have the potential to revitalize and develop the historical area sustainably by stimulating cultural tourism. One aspect of cultural tourism is to provide cultural itineraries for visitors that enable them to explore the cultural heritage of the host region. The literature in this field has dealt with the potential of heritage in general in providing meaning and value to the environmental, and socio-economic aspects that form the foundations of sustainable development. This paper uses a multidisciplinary approach to study the possibility of designing and reviving cultural routes as catalysts for historical revitalization. Taking the Cultural Routes in (Karbala) as an example, the network and node perspective model are adopted to determine two historic tourism routes in this region. And it turns out that the preservation and protection policies for heritage must be integrated manner with the development processes, and to achieve a balance between the aspects of sustainable development and emphasize their interrelation and interaction with the historical environment.

The purpose of this research is to establish criteria for selecting villages for rural development service centres by integrating statistical and tabulated data from one side with geodatabase for spatial analysis from the other. Thus, by using this to generate spatial indicators, the research would be able to create a holistic picture of the situation of all villages and to discover the real potential in them. The research methodology consisted of statistical data obtained by means of a data questionnaire for all villages and combined these statistical data with spatial data for the community of villages under review in order to produce a new generation of spatial information as indicators for decision-making. The results indicate the possibility of generalising the spatial analysis of geographic information systems as an effective basis in the studies of spatial planning at its various levels. Besides, the spatial analysis provides a realtime spatial predictor for rapid decision-making because it is based on a direct and periodic update of the spatial database.

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The current study addresses the gentrification process in the old neighbourhoods of low qualification, a process that could lead to changes in the re composition of the area and re-use of it is appearance. The research hypothesis of gentrification has imposed a feasible process in reconstructing historical areas by emphasizing its advantages in the study; this study will provide a thorough understanding of the process of gentrification through the method of analysis and description and try to understand how it occurs within the locality of the Al-Krad and Al-Taees area in old historical centre of Hilla City as a case study. The localities of the AI-Krad and Al-Taees are within the historical area of the province of Babylon, where this camp has undergone rapid changes in urban areas, urban and social. The research dealt with two aspects, the first one; dealing with the concept of gentrification process, and how could affected on the area. Second one is about historical analysis of the area, to understand the problems caused by merging economic, cultural, services function that lead to changes in physical and urban form with losing urban identity, where historic cities are at a risk of destruction and neglect, where the population is growing and therefore, the need for more capacity for its citizens, and changing their functions, cities lose their identity, with a lack of awareness of the importance of the region, so research aims was the depending on the gentrification concept, the results and effecting of this concept on the physical enhancement to the study area, with improve their economic, social and cultural level by providing investment opportunities for the residents and improving the quality of life and encouraging the poor and middle class to stay and develop them. The importance of the study lies in the representation of new ideas to look at the historical city itself and think about development in a different way, so this methodology was applied by analysing the locality of the Al-Krad and Al-Taees district within the old city centre as a case study. Then we examined the area indicators of gentrification derived from the theoretical framework and to suit the conditions of the region to improve the quality of life in the study area. The area is very vulnerable to the gentrification process, which needs further study to see how this process evolves in the near future, especially with the recent activities and work that the region may face following changes in recent years.

Iraqi architecture have many periods passed through it until now, each on from these periods have it is architectural style, also through time these styles interacted among us, to creating kind of space forming, space relationships, and architectural elements (detailed treatments), the research problem being from the multi interacted architectural styles causing some of confused of general characteristic to every style, that we could distinguish by it. Research tries to study architecture style through Mogul Conquest to Baghdad. Aim of research follow main characteristic for this architectural style in the Mogul periods on the level of form, elements, and treatments. Research depending on descriptive and analytical all buildings belong to this period, so from analyzing there style by, general form for building, architectural elements, and it architectural treatment, therefore; repeating this procedures to every building we get some similarities, from these similarities we can making conclusion about pure characteristic of the style of these period. Other side, we also discover some Dissimilar in the building periods, these will lead research to make what interacting among styles in this period, after all that we can drew clearly main characteristic of Architectural Style for Mogul Conquest in Baghdad