Visual Pollution and Its Health Implications in the Urban Environment of Al-Manadhira City Center

Abstract

Visual pollution is a form of pollution and a negative phenomenon concentrated in urban environments, which are spreading widely due to factors related to the intensity of commercial and political advertisements, the appearance of building coatings, the accumulation of solid waste, the density of electric power transmission wires, and others.The research dealt with four main sections, the first focused on studying the theoretical framework of the research, the second section studied the causes of visual pollution in the center of the city of Kufa, and the third section dealt with the study of forms of visual pollution in the center of the city of Kufa, and the fourth section analyzed the questionnaire and the study ended with a set of conclusions and recommendations, the most prominent of which: 1. Visual pollution causes psychological health effects and poor performance at a rate of (79.3 and 80.1%), respectively.2. Inconsistency in building coatings in the city of Kufa, which causes the phenomenon of visual pollution at a rate of (73.8%), as confirmed by the questionnaire.