extended abstract 1. introduction at the beginning of the 3rd millennium, future studies (foresight) have been involved in the discovery, innovation and assessment of possible, probable and desirable futures as well as analyzing past procedures; such an approach is the objective evidence of what gaston berger has stated about the future, that is “see the future and disrupt its framework” (godet...

Electronic cities result from the implication of information and communication technology (ICT) in the contemporary era. Significant ICT development and internet network expansion as well as the need of urban management to new ideas in managing cities lead us toward a new strategy called "electronic cities". The current study aims at investigating the Electronic Cities' Strategic Plan...

the aim of this research is to analyze the environmental principals which are used for land use planning of iranian communities in order to determine whether they are sufficient and efficient for conserving and improving the quality of urban environments or not. first, the environmental principals were extracted from municipal local plans (community plans) of the spatial planning systems of ira...

there are evidences of the relationship between collaboration rate and quality of articles. the more the number of authors, the more qualified the article. study of the collaboration rate among researchers is essential for strategic planning and research policy in major. the main objective of this research is to determine the authors' collaboration rate in the articles of scientometrics journal...

in order to respond to the problem of urban decline, different approaches have been defined in sucha way that urban regeneration approach became current in the 1980s (and more wildly after 1995) as a replacement for urban renewal. urban regeneration is the holistic process of reversing economic, social and physical decay in areas where it has reached a stage when market forces alone will not su...

Abstract Climate vulnerability is higher in coastal regions. Communities can largely reduce their hazard vulnerabilities and increase social resilience through design planning, which could put cities on a trajectory for long-term stability. However, the silos within planning communities gap between research practice have made it difficult to achieve goal flood resilient environment. Therefore, ...

The subject of this article is a presentation multi-scale passive and active solar shading systems in urban areas. This research assumes the hypothesis that insolation are interdependent their integration urbanized space affects city biome. Attention has been paid to role innovative solutions used field ur ban insolation, such as heliostats development future eco-architecture eco-urban planning...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There is growing interest in efforts to enhance advance care planning for patients with kidney disease. Our goal was to elicit the perspectives on advance care planning of multidisciplinary providers who care for patients with advanced kidney disease. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Between April and December of 2014, we conducted semistructured intervi...