Roadside landscape of Baghdad –Babylon- Karbala road
Keywords:
Landscape design, Roadsides, Roads vegetationAbstract
Natural roadside landscape is an important strategy to achieve aesthetic and functional roads
represented by collaborative work among road engineers, architects, landscape designers, and road
workers.. This study is aimed to design, and afforestation of 10 km roadsides connects BaghdadBabylon-Karbala to achieve the strategy of aesthetic roads. The landscape design methodology
included the separation of road into sections, in order to prepare a design diagram for each section
through field survey, and create preliminary design proposals for the project that achieves aesthetic
and functional purposes of the road , The study concluded that the design of the natural landscape for
road sections depends on the appropriate choice of vegetation , environment, soil and road neighbors.