Progress in urban climate science is severely restricted by the lack of useful information that describes aspects of the form and function of cities at a detailed spatial resolution. To overcome this shortcoming we are initiating an international effort to develop the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) to gather and disseminate this information in a consistent manner for urba...

urban spaces are like a dramatic stage, in which buildings and street’s facades are the actors. while people are passing through streets, they will communicate the information with the environment, as well as, explore and study the spaces. people transfer the greatest number of information from the urban space and the surrounding environment through their visual senses. hiking determines one of...

background: lack of nutritional knowledge is one of the most important reasons of nutritional problems and consequently im­proper practice, which can lead to several complications. this study has been designed in order to compare knowledge, at­ti­tude and practices of the urban and rural households regarding iron deficiency anemia (ida) in boushehr, golestan and sis­tan & balouchestan provinces...

Peri-urban areas are typically associated with high growth regions that have witnessed rapid landscape changes on the peripheries of metropolitan and urban areas with a particular focus on high amenity areas. These former rural lands adjacent to the edges of urban areas into which they would typically expands or influences have been described as peri-urban areas (‘peri’: around, about or beyond...