following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...

Neighborhood development is considered as one purpose of sustainable urban development (SUD) and a key action to reach the sustainability. This approach (SUN), enhance this new approach that the city's problems can be expected in return to the neighborhood concept. Applied methodology is based on descriptive-analytical, case study and librarian methods. In continuous, it was used of interview w...

the purpose of this paper was to measure the social capital of the medical students of mashhad medical sciences university in the place they lived (their neighborhood), and the factors affecting it. the statistical universe was the university with a total of 5383 students. the sample was 244. the sampling was done using the systematic classification method, the classes being the faculty and sex...

conclusions fear of neighborhood violence is a contributing factor to increased risk of obesity for female african american youth who live in disadvantaged areas. this finding has implications for prevention of obesity among african american women who are at highest risk for obesity in the united states. initiatives that enhance neighborhood safety are critical strategies for obesity prevention...

abstract the eu neighborhood policy is a road map that will depict the perspective of european :union:’s relations with its neighbors. the membership of the neighbors in the :union: is impossible, because they are confronted with deep domestic and foreign problems, and on the other hand eu’s security, political and economic interests in these countries lead to offering of the eu neighborhood po...