Sustainable Event Planning: An Exploration of University Conference Centers

Planning Sustainable Communities: An Appropriate Basis for Sustainable Residential Communities?

This chapter evaluates the impact of commodification of land and housing on the sustainability of the residential built environment. Commodification, an institutionalized practice in the western industrialized world, refers to the capacity of individuals to trade land and housing freely in the marketplace. This practice is so commonplace that it rarely undergoes any fundamental analysis in term...

Sustainable university, an endeavor for survival and sustainability

The purpose of this study was to provide a framework for sustainable university, which was carried out with a qualitative research method. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with academic researchers, which were selected through purposive sampling. Using the qualitative content analysis technic, the most prominent theoretical and practical basis of the sustainable university were identif...

Obstacles of Sustainable Planning in Housing Sector of Iran

Networked Multimedia Event Exploration

This paper describes a novel, interactive multimodal application that enables a network of friends to effectively visualize and browse a shared media collection. The framework is very useful for geographically disconnected friends to share experiences. Our solution involves three components – (a) an event model, (b) three new spatio-temporal event exploration schemes, and (c) a novel technique ...

An Investigation of Abnormal Fluid Pressure within an Evaporitic Cap Rock in the Gavbandi Area of Iran and its Impact on the Planning of Gas Exploration Wells

A synthesis of well logs was carried out and drilling mud weight data were analyzed to figure out anomalous high fluid pressure within the Triassic evaporitic cap rock (the Dashtak formation) and study its impact on the geometry of anticlinal traps in the gas rich Gavbandi province located in the southeast part of the Zagros Mountains. The results indicated that the location of anticlinal traps...