Urban regeneration decision-making is a complicated system, which requires that stakeholder interests balance in aspects of the economy, society and environment. It is necessary to identify the key factors affecting urban regeneration and then construct an urban regeneration decision-making evaluation system to provide a basis for objective and comprehensive judgment for urban regeneration deci...

Urban areas are complicated due to the mix of man-made features and natural features. A higher level of structural information plays an important role in land cover/use classification of urban areas. Additional spatial indicators have to be extracted based on structural analysis in order to understand and identify spatial patterns or the spatial organization of features, especially for man-made...

One of the most important issues in the management of disasters that caused by natural phenomena in urban areas is how to evacuate inhabitants of hazardous areas to safe areas. Optimal allocation of capacities in safe areas to inhabitants leads to effective decision making by inhabitants for displacement to safe areas in evacuation process. Effective decision making in disaster management is so...

Rates of alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD) vary with geographic location. Research on risks for AUD associated with living in a rural versus urban setting is complicated by the varied systems used to classify geographic location. Studies comparing the prevalence of heavier or binge drinking and AUD based on a dichotomous urban/rural classification have mixed findings when compared with...

Coyotes (Canis latrans) have become common in many metropolitan areas across the United States. Recent research has focused on the urban ecology of coyotes to better our understanding of how they exist in urbanized landscapes. 1 summarize findings from a variety of ecological studies of coyotes in or near metropolitan areas, and focus on three areas of coyote ecology: survival rates, home range...

Sustainability is observed in many aspects and elements of traditional Iranian architecture, plannerand landscape architecture, and this method was used to solve many problems for many countries. The aim of thisarticle is to achieve a sustainable approach in planning urban renewal projects to identify the relationship betweenurban design considerations and the sustainable development objectives...

Elderly residents who require personalized attention specific to their age-related needs generally inhabit rural areas. Users who are not of a very advanced age require only basic assistance, most commonly simple reminders to avoid forgetting or distractions. This article proposes the concept of a Smart City, which focuses on rural areas and incorporates a system to monitor and assist people of...

Urban areas are complicated due to the mix of man-made features and natural features. A higher level of structural information plays an important role in land cover/use classification of urban areas. Additional spatial indicators have to be extracted based on structural analysis in order to understand and identify spatial patterns or the spatial organization of features, especially for man-made...

this article has been done having the objective of proposed principles regarding the role of urban decline areas and being impressionable in reducing crime. it was an investigation on urban crimes in decline areas, and finally the implementation of an approach that will lead to the creation of a healthy city. the result of this article is application of the urbanization principles aiming at hav...

the goals of sustainable development. The transformation of land and ecological processes resulting from development is a driving force behind the lost ecological services that concern the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. A quick glance at just a few global trends suggests why urbanization has quickly become an issue in need of deeper understanding. Whereas less than 30 percent of the global po...