The Iraqi cities, including Mosul city, have been characterized since their inception by the organic (Oriental) character in their urban planning, under pressure from several factors (social, economic, psychological, security) imposed by the time period and the conditions in which the society was living at the time, but the increase in the population of cities and the entry of (the car) into the country, In the thirties of the last century and the influence of intellectual currents resulting from the Western cultural invasion, it called on those in charge of city planning to change their ideological belief to match the requirements of the modern era. Mosul city is no longer that city that was known for its traditional planning with narrow and windowless alleys and adjacent housing units that tell the story of the lives of its residents and their solid social relations and the feeling of belonging to the place and owning it and defending it with money and spirit if necessary, and to replace it with a city whose planning is dominated by (Western) character, interspersed with streets The petition and the spaced housing units that produced a variety of effects (negative and positive) on the residents of the community. Although what was presented above may be tainted by a perception of the tendency towards traditional (Eastern) planning and the rejection of modern (Western) planning, the current research represents a call for those in charge of planning Iraqi cities in general and the city of Mosul in particular to combine the two ideas (Eastern and Western) to benefit from the positives and overcome the negatives in both and crystallize in a modern idea of a modern residential city in line with the requirements of the modern era and achieve the desired social dimension.