Rapid urban development in social, economical, cultural, political and environmental aspects, has affected the human life in recent decades. Introducing the sustainable development as the main theme of the third millennium is the result of urban impact on the biosphere and the range of different aspects of human life too. Concentration on differences in dimensions and indicators of sustainable ...

    One of the critical issues related to sustainable urban twenty-first century urban growth pattern, and today most researchers believe a significant relationship between physical development of the city (urban form) and urban sustainability. So far as the organizing body of the cities under the framework of sustainable development is necessary. The aim of this study is to unde...

An Analysis of Urban Sustainable Development in Sabzevar City Seyyed Hadi Hosseini  Assistant Prof., of Geography and Urban Planning, Hakim Sabzevari University Hossein Karimzadeh ssistant Prof., of Geography and Rural Planning, University of Tabriz Mohammad Mireh Assistant Prof., of Geography and urban planning, Payame Noor University Extended Abstract 1 . Introduction ...

Sustainability is a pattern for thinking about the future in which environmental, social and economic considerations, are in a balanced state with each other, in order to improve the quality of life. Sustainable city is a city in which due to economic use of resources, avoid to producing too much waste and recycling them as much as possible and adopt effective policies, is able to maintain its ...

Nowadays, public participation is considered to be the key for the development of human societies in the way that with an increase in human groups, citizens’ cooperation in the sustainable development of the city is highlighted. The current article aims at investigating the role of personal features, such as education level, occupation type, and the duration of residency in the city, in the ext...

Today, physical development and population growth in Iranian cities, like other developing countries, is on the rise. One of the main problems in the urban area is the lack of attention to the influential parameters in the sustainable urban development.  Various factors, such as natural phenomena, play a role in the urban development, and the effective parameters must be considered for locatin...

Social capital as one of the prerequisites for urban development has elements such as social trust, social participation, social cohesion, social awareness, and degree of religiosity, each of which has different components in different societies. And the development of sustainable urban development depends on providing relative prosperity, citizen participation and increasing social awareness f...

In Islamic-political economy, urban sustainable development seeks to balance economic growth, ecological reconstruction, environmental protection and social progress. With descriptive-analytical method, this research investigates the impact of Islamic-political economy on the indicators of urban sustainable development. Data were collected by field studies and library method. Statistical popula...