The increasing trends of urbanization and the rapid growth in the major cities, generated many problems
such as unemployment, poverty, slums, and deterioration in the level of supply of urban services. So an
urgent need arose for the establishment
of urban observatories under the Centre for Geographic
Information for the city ,hoping to achieve the best interest of the assembly, operation and analysis of data
and information in the areas of urban development and local working within the system of the Global
Urban Observatory and in the light of the Global Urban Indicators and Millennium Development Goals
for the suitability of the level of the city and harmony clearly with public strategies and the future vision
of the state as it was set in development plans and with the outline of the strategic urban planner for the
city.
The research aims to identify how to create an Urban Observatory and the achievement of its duties by
using his human, technical and development of urban and local indicators and adapt it with the character
and identity of the city and the work of the applications of statistical and spatial analyses using geographic
information systems that enable the planner and the decision maker to follow the urban development and
to identify the extent of improvement or deterioration in the economic, physical, environmental, and work
to achieve higher levels of urban development objectives.
