“Placelessness” has emerged as the main issue in urban spaces following the standardization and the lack of identity of contemporary urban spaces. It can be said that placelessness occurs when a place loses its meaning. Therefore, the creation of meaning which is an essential feature of the vitality of urban spaces has become a challenge in the design of contemporary Iranian urban s...

Most of the rainfall in arid and semi-arid regions, which becomes runoff immediately after rainfall, eventually evaporates and becomes inaccessible. Harvesting water from impermeable rock surfaces and storage in reservoirs or aquifer feeding is an effective way to prevent evaporation losses in these areas. The purpose of this study is to model the amount of runoff in sub-basins with impermeable...

The environment meaning is one of the components in the city image that is formed under the influence of human factors and the artifact environment. So far, many research studies were performed on the impact of the artifact environment components on the environment meaning. But what is ignored and not studied is the order imposed on urban blocks. urban blocks are investigated in diverse aspects...