The disconnection of the style of the urban scene from the historical axes: Al-Rasheed Street is a case study

Abstract

The research investigates the urban scene as a witness to the city's memory and heritage and an expression of its cultural values. The urban scene, if sudden and unstudied visual images appear in it, and thus the emergence of different models between one axis and another, hence the research problem (disruption of the relationship between the constituent styles of the urban scene within the historical axes and the emergence of sudden visual images), Therefore, the research will aim to determine the reasons for the discontinuity in the visual sequence of the style and the emergence of sudden visual images of the urban scene. However, Baghdad, with its high cultural value, began to be interrupted as a result of interventions, which separated many parts of it from the urban style around it. The research will depend on the qualitative approach. The research concluded that Al-Rasheed Street suffers from a visual interruption in some parts of its urban scene as a result of social reasons related to individual or political transgressions related to the absence of penalties or economic ones related to the increase in the value of the land, in addition to the impact of the urban side that results in the removal or demolition of historic buildings. Furthermore, this led to a negative impact on the model of Al-Rasheed Street.