The Methodology of User-Sensitive Service Design within Urban Planning

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

the effects of planning on accuracy and complexity of iranian efl students’ written narrative task performance

this study compared the different effects of form-focused guided planning vs. meaning-focused guided planning on iranian pre-intermediate students’ task performance. the study lasted for three weeks and concentrated on eight english structures. forty five pre-intermediate iranian students were randomly assigned to three groups of guided planning focus-on-form group (gpfg), guided planning focus...

Modelling the impact of Water Sensitive Urban Design technologies on the urban water cycle Modelling the impact of Water Sensitive Urban Design technologies on the urban water cycle

The Green Future: Architecture + Sustainability; Green Architecture and Impacts of it on Urban Planning and Urban Design

Green architecture, or green design, is an approach to building that minimizes harmful effects on human health and the environment. The “green” architect or designer attempts to safeguard air, water, and earth by choosing eco-friendly building materials and construction practices. So, green architecture is Building and structure design philosophy that aims at minimal use of non-renewable and/or...

Uciv 4 Planning: a User-centered Approach for the Design of Interactive Visualizations to Support Urban and Regional Planning

Decision making in the context of urban and regional planning requires communication among different stakeholders. This communication process has several barriers because of domain differences, the different nature and types of data, lack of integrated analysis tools, deficiencies in the interaction with data, and information overload. To overcome these difficulties, interactive visualizations ...