one of the critical issues related to sustainable urban in twenty-first century, is the growth and development of the city in space and on this basis, the civil management was forced to think about urban development. tehran metropolis with its growing, developing immersive and without physical, environmental instability surrounding the statue has arrived. one of the ways for decentralization an...

Freight transport in urban areas is of increasing interest and concern. Significant changes in patterns and intensity of freight movements are occurring as a result of technological and societal change and the growth in e-business, the environmental consequences of road based transport systems, and urban land use and transport systems management policies. One significant problem is the BrowneAl...

Urbanization challenges regional sustainable development, but a slight expansion mechanism was revealed in a plateau city. We have integrated the urban expansion process and analyzed its determinants in Lhasa (Tibet), and we provide insightful suggestions for urban management and planning for Lhasa. The full continuum of the urban expansion process has been captured using time-series of high-re...

the logistic regression (lr) method, as an empirical estimation method, was used to model urban growth in gorgan city between the years 1987-2001. three groups of variables including social-economic, land use and biophysical variables were used. similarity among variables is probable. to remove the correlated variables, covariance was calculated and distance to administrative, sporting centers ...

An explosive increase of urban population, practically in all major cities and towns, has the consequent strain on the existing system manifested in an environmental chaos. The phenomena of accelerated urbanisation is the main culprit, wherein besides bringing higher standard of living, it has also brought problems, as growth of dense and unplanned residential areas, environmental pollution, no...

Monitoring urban growth and change is an important issue for urban planning and disaster management. In this study, two different approaches are conducted to monitor the urban areas. One is that a TerraSAR-X image is compared with an ALOS/PALSAR image to investigate the characteristics of urban land cover in different radar wavelengths. Also, a very high resolution optical QuickBird image is us...

Asia has been experiencing very high population growth and urbanization as well as migration as discussed in previous section. Asian cities will witness a large population increase, which will have important implications for a variety of urban environmental issues, such as water supply and sanitation, waste and wastewater generation, urban infrastructures as well as mobility. This section prese...

urban effete textures are multiple problems at conspectus skeletal, environmental, social and economic that encounter life of inhabitants with problem in this texture. according to the research, almost 90% of population in country exposed hazard of occurrence earthquake. in this face, by reason of problems, effete textures are over damage if the earthquake happened. nonetheless, to make provisi...