Abstract

Big cities suffered from overcrowding problems which push them to grow
horizontally and vertically. The extended cities will face the use of new land
problem around them, which not vacant from the physical limitations that
constraint that extension and make it difficult which minimize the holding
capacity for that costly extension. These limitations was the topic of this research
especially the artificial ones which surrounded the Sulaimaniyah city especially in
the study area which regard as a main direction for its extension and caused a
series of planning problems and minimizing the holding capacity is one of them.
The research showed that the effect of artificial limitations was exceeded than
natural limitations in spite of that the area is known with the second is more than
the first one. And showed that the maximizing of the passive effect of artificial
limitations was caused by littleness of directorates, experiment in the planning and
investment.