ROADSIDE LANDSCAPE OF BAGHDAD –BABYLON- KARBALA ROAD AS A CASE STUDY

 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.