the aim of this research is to analyze the environmental principals which are used for land use planning of iranian communities in order to determine whether they are sufficient and efficient for conserving and improving the quality of urban environments or not. first, the environmental principals were extracted from municipal local plans (community plans) of the spatial planning systems of ira...

abstract: one of the most important and complicated social transitions has been growth of worldwide urbanization. the rapid growth of urbanization and cities has had different consequences which is associated with much urban vulnerability. physical, installation, environmental, economical and social inequalities have been the results of such urban growth. this paper aims to study and identify t...

Although China's family planning programme is often referred to in the singular, most notably the One-Child policy, in reality there have been a number of different policies in place simultaneously, targeted at different sub-populations characterized by region and socioeconomic conditions. This study attempted to systematically assess the differential impact of China's family planning programme...

in order to respond to the problem of urban decline, different approaches have been defined in sucha way that urban regeneration approach became current in the 1980s (and more wildly after 1995) as a replacement for urban renewal. urban regeneration is the holistic process of reversing economic, social and physical decay in areas where it has reached a stage when market forces alone will not su...

Urbanization is a major driver of land use change and global environmental decline. With accelerated urbanization worldwide, it is essential to put in place new policies to conserve urban ecosystems, species and the services these provide in order to secure more sustainable, resilient and livable cities for the 21st century. In urban planning, the concept of resilience has broadly replaced the ...

The overarching goal of this article is to make explicit the multiple pathways through which the built environment may potentially affect health and well-being. The loss of close collaboration between urban planning and public health professionals that characterized the post–World War II era has limited the design and implementation of effective interventions and policies that might translate i...

Urban planning is closely related both, to decision making processes as well as to the establishment of a further urban envisioning. Therefore, it is understood as a multidimensional and multipurpose managed change of the natural and built environment. [C.Carmona, 2003] Hence urban planning is a key element for the creation of sustainable cities by its influence on the production of quality spa...