Baghdad, Iraq - A tenacious bedlam of development clamor rings out across Harthiya, proclaiming the relentless infringement of a developing megacity on this once calm neighborhood of focal Baghdad.    Solid skeletons intersperse a horizon recently peppered with palm trees, as condo squares steadily usurp rambling one-family homes.    At the point when love birds Hind Jameel and Waleed Ahmed first moved to Harthiya during the 1970s, their interesting cottage exemplified Baghdad's gander at that point: sand-shaded block structures with curved walkways encompassed by rich, open nurseries. Inside, wood-clad dividers, hand-painted mirrors and antique furniture relocate guests back to a period many recall as Baghdad's brilliant time.    Arab Gold Price: الذهب   After 50 years, the older couple's house is among a couple of its sort left in a local they scarcely perceive.    "Previously, every house had a nursery. Presently's, everything concrete," regretted Ahmed, 82, who used to work for the service of exchange before his retirement. "Everybody is assembling new houses with entrancing things, however the region is getting more awful."    Aysser Al Ameri remains in a house he as of late bought in Baghdad's old Shewake neighborhood. It highlights old Baghdadi compositional highlights, including an internal yard and wooden gallery called    Aysser al-Ameri remains in a house he as of late bought in Baghdad's old Shewake neighborhood. It highlights old Baghdadi building structures, including an inward yard and wooden overhang called, 'shanasheel'. Al-Ameri plans to annihilate the house to fabricate another one [Haider Hamdani/Al Jazeera]    Harthiya, similar to a lot of Baghdad, has been hopelessly changed in the midst of a post-2003 development blast that has gone generally unregulated. Driven by business interests and empowered by a useless state, it has slowly worked on Baghdad's building legacy and overturned the city's urban texture.    Rather than growing outward, the city is tearing up its old locale.    800 square-meter plots have been cut up to oblige different homes, with concrete gulping every last trace of greenery to make space for extra lodging. Customary structure procedures appropriate for Baghdad's hot atmosphere have been supplanted with less expensive and glitzier plans.    High dividers outfitted with cameras loom where low fences once passed on a feeling of commonality. On Al Kindi road, the road that slices through the area, private homes have since quite a while ago offered approach to multistorey centers, clinical gracefully stores, and shopping centers.    The fast ascent in populace thickness hazards making the territory unacceptable in a city that as of now positions absolute bottom on Mercer's personal satisfaction file. In the evenings, Harthiya's limited roads are stopped up with traffic. Water is coming up short, and during boiling summer days, heat emanates from the solid long after dusk, as there is not, at this point enough greenery left to retain it.    "It makes me miserable," said Jameel, 79, who used to work for an insurance agency. "Everything was better previously. Not simply the structures and roads, additionally the public activity."    Baghdad's Harhtiya neighborhood, settled close by Zawra park, used to be a calm region with extensive one family homes. Like the remainder of Baghdad, it has been generously adjusted by a post-2003 constr    Baghdad's Harhtiya neighborhood, settled close by Zawra park, used to be a tranquil territory with open one-family homes. Like the remainder of Baghdad, it has been significantly changed by a post-2003 development blast that has gone generally unregulated [Haider Hamdani/Al Jazeera]    Harking back to the '70s, Jameel reviewed, Harthiya was generally occupied by college graduates and government workers, who were conceded admittance to sponsored plots. She knew the vast majority of her neighbors, and they regularly spent nights visiting each other.