it is nowadays less likely to findcomprehensive historical areas, which can represent all the typical features of a historical urban environment. most historical urban spaces have undergone modernization and have inevitably ceased to function as they were originally devised to. however, successful experiences of urban space construction provethat modern urban areascan both meet the present day ...

lighting plays a key role in night escapes of urban spaces, in a way that it can be effective in giving identity to them. by considering this importance and inexistence of a process for composing urban lighting strategy made this study to be conducted by the objective of providing process for compilation of context-oriented lighting strategy in urban spaces. reaching a suitable solution for lig...

Three dimensional digital city models are more and more used in different domains. These models are acquired in different ways and in very different levels of detail, due to sensor limitations or simply because of requirements of the specific scenario. The tendency towards more sophisticated models including semantic information, additional attributes and links to larger datasets can be observe...

Soil quality is critical to the management of urban green space, in particular, along traffic corridors where traffic-related air pollution is significant. Soil quality can be evaluated by soil enzyme activities, which show quick responses to both natural and anthropogenic disturbances. In this study, we investigated three soil enzyme activities (i.e., dehydrogenase, catalase and urease) along ...

This article reviews literature on the connection between urban green space access and environmental justice. It discusses the dynamics of the relationship as it relates to factors such as environmental quality, land use, and environmental health disparities. Urban development stresses the landscape and may compromise environmental quality. Since some communities are disproportionately impacted...

urban growth and associated landscape transformation has been a major driver of local, regionaland global environmental change. the conversion of urban greenery to impervious landscapes has been identifiedas a key factor influencing the distinctive urban heat and associated consequences. due to the often highdemand for space in urban areas, creation and preservation of urban greenery as heat si...

فضاهای شهری با روندی ناموزون و ناهماهنگ با ویژگیهای اجتماعی و فرهنگی جامعه و نیز خواسته ها و نیازهای شهروندان در حال رشد و گسترش هستند که این فرایند ضمن مخدوش نمودن سیما و هویت شهرها سبب ظهور بسیاری از مشکلات اجتماعی و فرهنگی گردیده است و نارضایتی ساکنان شهرها، عدم احساس تعلق آنها به سکونتگاهایشان و در نتیجه عدم احساس مسئولیت در حفظ و ارتقاء آن، افزایش جرائم شهری و نیز عدم احساس امنیت از حضور د...

living in satisfying urban environments is important for an individual’s well-being. in order to create such environments, planners, designers, and policy makers need to understand the structures that cause residents to feel satisfied with their environments. this paper focuses on the perceived quality of urban residential environments: dwellings and neighborhoods. first, literature review was ...