Unplanned urban expansion at the expense of green spaces in the city of Al-Bayda, using remote sensing techniques for the period (2010-2025)

Abstract

This study seeks to monitor the urban developments in the city of al-Bayda during the period (2025-2010), as the city of al-Bayda during this period witnessed a significant urban expansion in its urban structure, which affected the land uses in it, and relying on GIS Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing technologies, the study reached a number of results, the most important of which is that the city of al-Bayda went through many planning stages influenced by a set of geographical determinants ( natural and Human) until it occupied a total area of about ( 120KM² ) one of the most important human determinants that helped the growth of the urban mass of the city of Bayda, in addition to The presence of a network of roads, main axes and internal streets that were important in the expansion and direction of urbanization and the increasing demand for urban land uses, the study also indicated that the city of al-Bayda faces many urban problems such as random location, overlapping uses in the city in addition to other encroachments . In the end, the study developed a set of recommendations and proposals to address these problems and to improve the urban situation in the city .