Knowledge about the reception of architectural structures is crucial for architects or urban planners. Yet obtaining such information has been a challenging and costly activity. With the advent of the Web, a vast amount of structured and unstructured data describing architectural structures has become available publicly. This includes information about the perception and use of buildings (for i...

The main goal of the present study was to implement a hybrid pattern of cellular automata model and particle swarm optimization algorithm based on TM and ETM+ imagery of landsat satellite from 1988 to 2010 for simulating the urban sprawling. In this study, an alternative model was implemented in two ways: the first method was based on two images (1988 and 2010) and the second one was based on t...

INTRODUCTION Studies have suggested that a rapid increase in physicians does not necessarily change an urban-rural inequity in their distribution. However, it is unknown whether an insufficient supply of physicians worsens an inequity. Spatial competition and attraction-repulsion hypotheses were applied to the geographic distribution of physicians during a time of insufficient physician supply ...

it is conventional to say that islamic built environment is introversive. in urban and architectural studies, this term is made equal to a formal organization of voids and solids in which voids are surrounded by an impermeable mass, and then some theoretical reasoning is attached to this formal system. here we are dealing with the issue in an alternative way; instead of finding interpretations ...

The aim of this paper is to enunciate convergences between the contemporary city, urban-architectural projects and their relationship with nature. Starting from assumption that city an integrating portion natural environment, as a complex uninterrupted system biotic abiotic changes, influenced mainly by culture, values, customs habits its residents. To propose based on project green infrastruct...