Geocast on Instagram: "From space, Erbil’s expansion since the mid-1980s is unmistakable. One of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, Erbil grew for centuries in a tight circular form around its 6,000-year-old citadel. That ancient core shaped the city—dense, walkable, and clearly defined. The modern transformation began in the late 1980s and accelerated through the 1990s and 2000s as conflict, displacement, and later autonomy reshaped northern Iraq. Rural migration, post-war rebuil