Information about green spaces available in a city is essential for urban planning. Urban green areas are generally assessed through environmental indicators that reflect the city’s quality of life and urban comfort. A methodology based on 3D measure and analysis of green urban areas at the city scale is presented. Two products are proposed: (1) measuring current vegetation cover at ground leve...

there is widespread recognition today that we are living in a period of profound technological, social, economic and political change, and that this process of change is accelerating. yet, there is less certainty about the nature and meaning of these changes—whether they should be regulated or liberalized, supported or resisted— and the kind of world they are leading to. despite these uncertai...

land use planning is the main core of urban planning and one of the main components of an urban system. this element has close relation with transportation system of the city, so if their interaction becomes insufficient, deterioration and chaos would have an adverse impact on the urban system and would cause serious environmental issues. the integrated land use-transportation models seem to b...

OBJECTIVE To present an overview of the current state of computer-based medical decision support systems in Africa in the areas of public health, patient care, and consumer support. METHODS Scientific and gray literature reviews complemented by expert interviews. RESULTS Various domains of decision support are developed and deployed in Sub-Saharan Africa: public health information systems, ...

this paper, i have focused on the tax side of the fiscal policy to  investigate the past and future behavior of fiscal sustainability in iran. to do so, i have employed two different forward-looking and backward-looking approaches. first, the backward-looking approach is the fiscal policy rule proposed by daving & leeper (2011). precisely, this rule determines that whether the fiscal policy is ...

In this paper we seek to present a challenge to the normative prescriptive role of strategic urban planning practice. In effect, we challenge what has traditionally been regarded as the essence of strategic or `forward' planning: the plan as a statement of what the city ought to become. Using Lacanian-inspired analysis we seek to understand how urban issues may be identified as metaphorical def...

With the rise of concept a forest-based bioeconomy over past decade, sustainability is simultaneously an underlying assumption and key expectation. However, can we assume that sustainable simply because it emphasizes use forests as renewable resource? And will indeed lead to more – prosperous Finnish society? In light these questions, important understand relationship between forestry articulat...

the study of design and formation of urban space focuses on interaction of human and environment. this is an attractive subject that considers as interdisciplinary debates. thinkers of urban studies pay attention to this matter empirically and theoretically in order to provide a desirable space for human being. this research is based on the theories of urban studies and urban sociology and so o...

Achieving urban sustainability through smart cities is necessary to manage environmental problems that threaten human survival. Smart city policy emphasizes the aspects of areas while embracing social and economic sectors, allowing for development practical plans sustainability. This study suggests sustainable directions can improve transition cities. It defines concepts such as cities, develop...

OBJECTIVE Several countries in sub-Saharan Africa have implemented policies to remove or reduce user fees. Our aim was to identify criteria guiding such decisions among national policy entrepreneurs, those who link up problem definition, solution development and political processes. METHODS We administered a best-worst scaling (BWS) experiment to 89 policy entrepreneurs, asking them to identi...