International Science and Technology Journal

Abstract This study aims to analyzing the urban plan of Slouq city-Libya, and its impact on land use of the city, using remote sensing techniques and geographic information systems. In this study databases from Google Earth and Open Street Maps for Slouq city were used, by applying the spatial analysis tools in ArcGIS 10.5. The study concluded that, the weakness in the implementation of laws and the absence of a planning vision helped in the expansion of the city randomly at the expense of agricultural lands; the sites of services in the city are distributed inappropriately among the neighborhoods of it. The climate helped the city to be characterized by agricultural and pastoral activity, as the city relies on rain as a main source of water in addition to groundwater. Suluq city also suffers from pollution as a result of the presence of fertilizers and pesticides, not to mention the environmental problems resulting from human activities, such as solid waste and air polluted by car exhausts. Keywords: Urban Planning Analysis, GIS techniques, Suluq city, Open Street Map.