Adopting modern understanding of traditional urban morphology theory for environmental conservation and urban sustainability

Understanding modernism and postmodernism of urban morphology offers a set of strategies and policies that will preserve the morphological form of traditional cities. All of these strategies and procedures rely on the historical context of the city development that keeps pace with urban development, which inevitably reflects a change in the form of cities that meets the demands of the times, even if this change join by negative changes that require targeting specific policies and strategies as an attempt to control morphological transformations. Among these are guidelines of urbanization using hybridization or renewal, which have been successful mechanisms applied in many traditional cities, including the case study, Arbil, as a renewed historical city.