Urban sprawl and its impact on agricultural lands in the city of Canaan for the period (1997-2023)

Abstract

The research aims to reveal urban sprawl and its impact on agricultural lands in the city of Canaan, as well as to determine the best directions for its future urban expansion away from inventorying and preserving orchards and agricultural lands. To achieve this, the descriptive, historical, analytical and quantitative approach was used, as well as the use of maps using systems technology.  Geographic information using the Arc gis program and satellite visuals from the Bing satellite. The research reached the most important results, including that economic factors and government intervention had a major role in urban expansion at the expense of agricultural lands in the research area. The research also showed the most important stages in which  The city of Canaan has a wide extension over agricultural land, which is the second morphological stage for the period (1971-1981) and the third morphological stage for the period (1982-1999), as well as predicting the future of the city in terms of population and area until the target year 2038, after which the research showed the best directions for its future expansion, which is  The direction is east and southwest.