Large cities and metropolitan areas in developing countries are growing rapidly. These areas grew by attracting all facilities, services and capital of the country. Tehran has been the major city and center for decision and policy making in various administrative, political, economic and socialaspects. This political focus has brought economic, social, educational focus that attracted a vast ma...

this article begins with explanation of ict importance in cities restructuring with emphasizing on spatial behavior of ict firms in a tehran metropolis. the main purpose of this article is to examine the determinants of location decision making by ict firms as well as their transnational function in tehran’s international relations. analyses of data collected from 50 firms of almost 500, includ...

Does globalisation lead to convergence? This question is pervasive in all fields of social science and currently the dominant answer sounds like the following: although globalisation has been the dominant discourse during the past 15 years and has changed agendas and policies, regional, national and local cultures and institutions still strongly shape social and political processes and outcomes...

abstract: background and objectives: social health as third dimension of health, along with physical and mental health, has drawn more attention in recent years among policy makers and health system managers. no other study, to our knowledge, has documented measuring individual-level social health in iran. in response to this need, our study tends to assess iranians self-rated social health thr...