the term globalization undoubtedly has affected all parts of humanity life in current century. globalization as a comprehensive phenomenon has influenced economical, political, social and cultural aspects of our societies. contemporary architecture as a multidimensional category is depended on various factors and needs to be pursued in different fields, in order to reach to a perfect comprehend...

The present issue of European Spatial Research and Policy is the first of two numbers dedicated to ‘Planning systems facing heritage issues in Europe: from protection to management, in the plural interpretations of the values of the past’. The concept arose from a meeting held in June 2013 at the conference on ‘Changing Cities’ in Skiathos, Greece, where a group of planners decided to compare t...

Past work suggested that dual identity was effective to reduce prejudice. This study extended research on dual identity and prejudice by identifying a boundary condition in this relationship, that is, group permeability. In Study 1, we replicated previous studies with Chinese individuals and found that inducing dual identity (emphasizing subgroup differences and a common nation identity), compa...

Social participation is an important tool in heritage conservation, but levels remain low developing countries. To increase social-participation awareness of urban-heritage this study aimed to find effective method determine the factors that affect awareness, with a focus on magnitude each influence. Through literature analysis we developed hypotheses about affecting and then linear regression ...

the intention of this paper is to define the concept of the spirit of place, and then to identify methods for its preservation in historical urban contexts. in fact, this study seeks to answer the question whether the spirit of the place and its components can be derived from tissue structure to improve? and whether we can weave his old identity in psychological indicators - human behavior foun...

We describe a new construction of an incoherent dictionary, referred to as the oscillator dictionary, which is based on considerations in the representation theory of finite groups. The oscillator dictionary consists of approximately p unit vectors in a Hilbert space of dimension p, whose pairwise inner products have magnitude of at most 4/ √ p. An explicit algorithm to construct a large portio...

introduction one of the critical issues associated with sustainability in the twenty-first century is how cities are growing and developing in the space. rapid urban growth and physical development of cities cause disintegration of the spatial organization of cities and consequently spatial inequality between urban spaces. this phenomenon can be considered as spatial segregation or fragmentatio...