Based on Geography Information System and Virtual Reality technology, a new system of collaborative urban planning and design is established by publishing the future urban developing and planning information in the urban government Website. With the help of the plug-ins supplied by the system, the citizens concerning with public affairs can interact easily with the server in 3D virtual environm...

In developing countries, the domination of peripheral and dependent capitalism relations and the lack of appropriate structures and channels of attracting, this system have caused some kind of spatial-anatomic unbalances that has resulted in the appearance of single cities with national and regional prevalence. This situation is the main reason for small, medium and intermediate cities to lose ...

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...

land use planning is the main core of urban planning and one of the main components of an urban system. this element has close relation with transportation system of the city, so if their interaction becomes insufficient, deterioration and chaos would have an adverse impact on the urban system and would cause serious environmental issues. the integrated land use-transportation models seem to b...

While a country is surging ahead from a developing country to the status of a developed nation, the term "Development" has a connotation, both in terms of macro-level or micro-level development. When referred at the country level it becomes macro-level development, while at districts, it becomes microlevel development. At the sub-state level, “District” is the basic unit for all administrative ...

The urban planning is one of important public policy that government regulates the spatial resources, instructs the city and countryside development and construction, maintains social justice, safeguards public security and public benefit. It has an important position in the urban construction and development. This paper researches the construction of technical system in urban planning manageme...

configuration of urban land use arrangement system, how to divide and how to use urban lands are advantages of environmental, economic, social, politic and rightly forces. with extension of urbanization and development of urban and regional planning, this concept is more widely hold a special place in the form of projects such as: land preparation, framework planning, general and comprehensive,...

Spatial differences in urban environmental conditions contribute to health inequalities within cities. The purpose of the paper is to map environmental inequalities relevant for health in the City of Dortmund, Germany, in order to identify needs for planning interventions. We develop suitable indicators for mapping socioeconomically-driven environmental inequalities at the neighborhood level ba...

In recent years, there is an increasing demand for improving the efficiency and reliability of urban planning in China, due to the inclusive changes of concepts and contents of urban planning and management. The integrated utilisation of remote sensing and GIS technology in improving urban planning was therefore approached by the author and his research group. The basic methodology of this work...