Does Arbil have the potential to become a megacity by 2020 ?

Current speed of redevelopments in Arbil is showing that might be possible.
What is megacity? What are the ingredients of a megacity?
A great Metropolis is in making; By 2020 Arbil could be well above 10 Million populations with parts of it that never sleeps.

Building for the future, developers are busy building tall buildings across the city.
Little attention is made in quality of these buildings; they are using antiquated methods that are long abandoned in Europe.

Kurdistan needs to look at steel structure as an alternative, its fast and efficient and in long run economically more viable.

It is essential that we do not make mistakes now, there are skyscrapers planned in Arbil. 7 of them in one location in Golan street Arbil.
3 shorter ones are already well on the way in the same area.
Number of them is under construction around the city.

No attention is being made to the Skyline at all, It will be an essential steps by the city planners to consider long term in Arbil's skyline: what is going to look like in 10 years time.
Mistakes that were made in London Skyline around St.Pauls in the 60’s and seventies should not be repeated here.
In Arbil in Particular around Citadel we should be very careful, there is a new rule in place, existing master plan is paving the way for existing City Municipality building to be taken down near the citadel, this is good news.
We still need to look at the Nishteman shoping area and existing constructions nearby to keep them at low level structure, including few badly constructed concrete structure around the citadel
Paris is a good example to learn from to keep tall and large construction away from the centre of the city.

All other cities in KRG, Sulaymani, Duhuk and Kalar are all going through a major transformation. This is the case with disputed cities such as Kerkuk.
Kerkuk is now starting to take shape, we need to learn from the mistakes in the capital (Arbil) to avoid repeating the same mistakes.