Can it be said that in the Kurdistan Region Urbanization and Development, are two overlapping processes?
Urban growth is definitely walking side by side economic development in the Kurdistan Region. The expansion of Kurdish cities creates wealth as well as increasing social complexity. The intertwining dynamic of urbanisation and development calls for an urgent reflection on questions of sustainability. Urban wellbeing and long-lasting development can only be produced if ecological values, environmental respect, thoughtful energy consumption and vernacular models of social interaction and lifestyle are taken into account. An urban expansion that is too aggressive might risk disrupting both existing social solidarity and local ecosystems. The cult of concrete and modular structures might threat the extinction of vernacular building models and craft. I would say that urbanisation can contribute to durable development if it modulates an ideal of modernity on local culture and tradition producing socially and environmentally sustainable models of growth and expansion. What kind of effect and
