Urban regeneration programmes in the UK over the past 20 years have increasingly focused on attracting investors, middle-class shoppers and visitors by transforming places and creating new consumption spaces. Ensuring that places are safe and are seen to be safe has taken on greater salience as these flows of income are easily disrupted by changing perceptions of fear and the threat of crime. A...

abstract:â green spaces, especially urban gardens have been a subject of study in many countries for a long time, but the subject has been mostly overlooked in iran. therefore, this study tries to analyze the changes in land use and how we can protect green spaces (gardens) in jahrom in line with sustainable development in 1996-2006. the data in this study were collected through local investiga...

Climate-urban form research tends to identify vernacular (traditional) forms as a successful combination of architecture, urban design and climate. This theory, which draws a parallel between climate and adaptive urban form, is supported by the accepted common belief that harsh climates, such as hot-arid ones, confront those who live in them with unique challenges. These challenges are answered...

Little urban ecological research has been done in South Africa. The papers in the Ecology and Society special feature Urban Ecological and Social-Ecological Research in the City of Cape Town make, therefore, an important contribution to the development of urban ecology locally and globally. Different approaches have been used in the study of urban ecology of different urban areas in South Afric...

Abstract Background In the context of global climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and impact urban living on public health, rewilding areas surrounding spaces may offer a host benefits for physical mental health as well improvements to environmental planetary health. This review offers contemporary appraisal role within Europe, considering success existing policies offering suggest...

safety is one of the life necessities and fundamental human rights and it is a prerequisite for improvement of people welfare and health. safety improvement is in a direct relationship with mental calmness and also with senses of places to life environment. although the importance of safety factors for everybody, researches show that sensitivity or safety level for some kinds of age and sex gro...

necessary for mental and physical health of citizens and members of urban society- especially metropolitans- is to enjoy favorite, interesting and beautiful spaces. undoubtedly, in metropolitans like isfahan and ahwaz which lack of useful and available urban lands makes the development of such spaces limited, riversides could perform such a role because of different humanistic and natural reaso...