Employing Riverbanks to Humanize Cities

Riverbanks in cities are considered important urban spaces in their planning, but we see at the present time the neglect of the human factor and a significant decline in human levels in them, as city planning focuses on creating spaces to accommodate vehicles instead of providing citizens with spaces that encourage social participation and social interaction. This has led to the lack of public spaces that enable citizens to enjoy the city, in addition to high pollution rates and the emergence of cities that are unfriendly to people and unsustainable. From Here the research problem arose: Is the Baghdad Historical Center properly employed? to Humanization of the city of Baghdad? Therefore, the research aims to try to reach Indicators to employ the riverbank in the historical center of Baghdad to make it more humane and the hypothesis of the research is to employ the riverbank Humanization Baghdad Historical Center by following planning indicators and procedures. The research followed the descriptive analytical approach and presented a theoretical framework. Containing examples of humanizing the banks in global cities. To test the research hypothesis The practical part of the research take Analysis of the study area supported by maps and images, and application Human planning indicators on it and Conducting a field survey by the researcher and studying land uses, the research reached a number of conclusions, namely: The bank of the historic center of Baghdad, towards Rusafa Missing The human dimension in most of its parts is due to the poor quality of urban planning, neglect of the environment of the river section and the adjacent bank, and neglect of the historical, commercial and human aspects in it.