What kind of effect and impact can private sectors and foreign companies have in the phenomenon of Urbanization?
I do not think that the private sector and foreign companies have an impact on urbanisation as such, but they are definitely having a big say in the shape that Kurdish cities are taking. I can see their influence in the models of urban design that are being adopted. The number of towers that are being built and the mushrooming of gated communities, for example, speak an urban language that it is very different from historical and traditional Kurdish models of inhabitation and social interaction. It will be interesting to see in ten year time what are the consequences and effects that the import of new form of living spaces has produced on Kurdish society. In the context of the Kurdistan Region, how has urbanization affected agriculture and what would be its impact in the rural areas? As I mentioned before, the process of urbanisation in the Kurdistan Region has been significantly determined by the historical-political events of the 1980s. The destruction of the villages during the Iran
