The existing and ever-changing geography of the city and its region is the end-product of innumerable conflicts over locational issues. The provision of public services, attempts to close schools, the enforcement and modification of zoning codes and the alteration of traffic patterns are familiar examples of the types of locational issues which confront most large and growing cities. Although p...

Our work encompasses subjects of urban planning, urban design, urban morphology, and the link between geographical information systems (GIS) and urban visualization. Our area of research focuses on the way people conceptualize the urban environment. The visualization technique discussed in this paper is an attempt to provide users with a tool to create their own sense of urban legibility, which...

The influence of noise on the quality of the urban living environment has traditionally been studied focusing on negative effects on man, such as noise annoyance and sleep disturbance. Recently a more holistic approach, including positive and negative aspects as well as non-residential functions of the urban environment, has gained renewed interest. The label ‘‘urban soundscape’’ is often used ...

With regards to the big agglomerations and especially the cities, the constructed surface has often got an irregular shape, in spite of the efforts of the urbanists to promote more compact shapes. The internal spatial order of the big agglomerations is a matter of the fractal geometry. This article shows the interest of applying the fractal geometry in cities and in networks of communication of...

There is widespread public support for open space provision and for efforts by government to limit sprawl. We demonstrate that open space policies should not be viewed as independent of—or necessarily compatible with—growth management goals. We examine the impacts of open space designation on the urban landscape in a spatial city model with two important and empirically-relevant features: (1) r...

We introduce an algorithm that automatically aligns images with partial wireframe models to compute extrinsic camera parameters with respect to the model reference frame. Aligned imagery is fused with the model to incorporate high-resolution textures and to facilitate context sensitive image processing. The technique is designed to exploit the approximately planar structure commonly found in hu...

The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007 This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression analysis, we identify wage gaps across the distribution and over time; and we employ the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition ...

introduction: in recent years spatial justice has gained special importance among planners and geographers. since the urban public services form the structure, shape and the nature of the physical, social and urban space, inequities in their distribution cause irreversible negative effects on the structure and the nature of city and social segregation of the people, and serious challenges in th...

Quality is the most important consequence of an urban design project, and its promotion is the final duty of an urban designer. So "urban design guidelines" which use environmental improvement factors in their structure, have an effective role in promoting urban space quality. "Urban design guidelines" are the most important instruments in urban designers' authority, to reflect and appear im...

this article wants to propose this theory that farm corporations are agropolitan development models in iran. as over-concentrating investments to the urban areas did not lead to a trickledown effect to the rural areas. to the extreme, there are ideas to minimize linkages with the urban economy, and to make the rural areas pursue self-sufficiency by maximizing its potentials. however, against th...