more than 50% of the global population already lives in urban settlements which are projected to absorb almost all the global population growth to 2050, amounting to some additional three billion people. over the next decades the increase in rural population in many developing countries will be overshadowed by population flows to cities. rural populations globally are expected to peak at a leve...

this study explores identity elements of tehran province in travel writings with concentration on symbols in urban planning and architecture. on one hand, symbolic representation of a city plays a crucial role in identity making and on the other hand special provinces and cities like tehran are important in echoing contemporary iranian national identity and are highly closed to today’s iran. in...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) courses are teaching public health and urban planning students how to assess the likely health effects of proposed policies, plans, and projects. We suggest that public health and urban planning have complimentary frameworks for training practitioners to address the living conditions that affect health. Planning perspectives emphasize practical skills for impactin...

Economic tools and regulatory systems for the urban environment 60 Land use and strategic urban planning 61 Spatial planning on the urban periphery 61 Mixed use planning and urban design policies 61 Transport planning and management 62 Preserving cultural heritage 63 Use of green space in urban areas 63 Urban agriculture and forestry 63 Integrated approaches to urban management 64 Site planning...

Urban development is a complex process influenced by a number of driving forces, including spatial planning, topography and urban economics. Identifying these drivers is crucial for the regulation of urban development and the calibration of predictive models. Existing land-use models generally consider urban development as a binary process, through the identification of built versus non-built a...

urban effete textures are multiple problems at conspectus skeletal, environmental, social and economic that encounter life of inhabitants with problem in this texture. according to the research, almost 90% of population in country exposed hazard of occurrence earthquake. in this face, by reason of problems, effete textures are over damage if the earthquake happened. nonetheless, to make provisi...

In many parts of the world, a rapid urbanization process is taking place at an unprecedented scale, and its drastic impacts on societies and the environment are evident. To combat the externalities of such rapid, and to a degree uncontrolled, development, many cities around the globe introduced various urban growth management policies. However, policy making—to provide sustainable outcomes, whi...