Al-Saffar, M., 2022.

Making Connections - The Site and City Image

A set of factors played a substantial role in determining cities' locational choices, such as the availability of natural recourses, trade routes, and political considerations, and in some issues on the religious significance. During the 21st urban transformation of cities has been intensely affected by flows of socio-economic and technological processes. Cities started from small settlements and then developed into villages with organic patterns and connected through natural paths (waterways, canals, and routes).