1Dept. of Urban Management, Kyoto University (C1-2-334 Bldg., Kyoto daigaku-Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8530, Japan) E-mail: [email protected] 2Professor, Dept. of Urban Management, Kyoto University (C1-2-335 Bldg., Kyoto daigaku-Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8530, Japan) E-mail: [email protected] 3Lecturer, Dept. of Urban Management, Kyoto University ...

Nowadays there is a high rate of urban expansion which can not be ignored in proper urban management. Parallel to the urban expansion we are faced with an increase in urban problems, which will lead to complexities dealing with the urban management and planning processes. A city is a set of condensed and broad functionalities which requires handling of huge amount and diverse types of geospatia...

One of the most important factors in quality improvement of transportation, communication, accommodation, utilities, etc is urban infrastructures development. Certainly, with the intention of achieving the goal, approaches to urban infrastructures management must be ranked by Scientific and logical evaluation and calculation. This paper presents evaluation of governmental, private, and public–p...

Urban regeneration and renewal is one of the urban development subjects that have undergone substantial changes in last decades in its approaches and also management process. Despite these global changes, policy making in this field of urban development have been delayed in Iran. In the last three decades, the spread of distressed urban areas in Tehran and their vulnerability against earthquake...

“Management model” is an important theoretical and practical proposition in study on urban community. Urban community is defined as a harmonious community with psychological and regional congruence. Rebuilding of a harmonious urban community is, as a matter of fact, a process of urban management model transferring from “heteronomy” to “autonomy”. Urban community autonomy means self-governance o...

Urban greenery remains the bastion of urban landscape and a key to sustainable development due to its integral connections to the general health and wellbeing of urban residents. However, in an era of rapid urbanisation, recent studies indicate that urban greenery, especially ecologically sensitive areas, in many African cities is becoming increasingly depleted. Given the scale and rate of natu...

Ecologically Sustainable Development in Australia can be described as going beyond the protection of the environment from the impacts of pollution, to protecting and conserving natural resources. In an urban environmental context this means urban development (both greenfield development and urban renewal) that seeks to have no long term effects on various aspects of the environment related to a...