(N)Erbil City Masterplan
The Linear Mountain Master Plan envisions Erbil as a cosmopolitan urban center, blending dense business districts, low-rise residential blocks, and integrated public spaces with the natural beauty of its river valley and surrounding hillsides.
Linear Mountain
Erbil is a city in northern Iraq that is the regional capital of the largely ethnic Kurdish governerate of Erbil. GAD was asked to design a master plan for the city known for it’s oil economy with the goal of creating a modern urban center that also took advantage of the natural setting. The Master Plan by GAD envisions a cosmopolitan city with a variety of zones for business, tourist, retail, leisure and recreational activities. At the center of the Plan is Central Business District of dense towers, home to the petroleum business, that is balanced by a grid of low rise retail and residential blocks with courtyards. These blocks are placed in a linear manner on either side of the river that runs through the valley and the mountains further up the hillsides. On these hillside are villages that look down onto this new Erbil of wide avenues, plazas and riverside promenades in an integrated network of public spaces.
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