: Land use planning and organized urban activities are the pivot of urban planning. Unders tanding patterns of urban land and property ownership is important because it affects the nature and shape of urban development, especially on the edge of cities with many social and economic features in one hand and some illegal subdivision of lands occur in this place on the other hand that is very impo...

The focus of the present study is on the interdependence of language and urban identity set within the framework of theory of practice and the concept of the right to the city. It is concerned with the formation of local identities in the context of a multicultural city of Pula, in the Croatian region of Istria, characterized by a substantial presence of immigrant and ethnic minority groups. Th...

urban management in any context has a different economic, social and political structure, which is in harmony with the existing models of organization. in spite of these differences, in order to reach a sustainable urban development, several different conferences should be referred to. in the “brundtland commission 1987” about urban sustainable development these definitions have been given: “pr...

Hierarchy is implicit in the very term city. Cities grow from hamlets and villages into small towns and thence into larger forms such as ‘metropolis’, ‘megalopolis’ and world cities which are ‘gigalopolis’. In one sense, all urban agglomerations are referred to generically as cities but this sequence of city size from the smallest identifiable urban units to the largest contains an implicit hie...

Based on a literature review on territorial development and urban and regional growth, this paper argues that, among the many factors that may influence the development of small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs), geography and institutions count. Following an introduction, section 2 shows that geographic factors exert an influence on the economic development of SMSTs, by the importance of connecti...

Urbanization is one of the great challenges of our time and unchecked haphazard urbanization is a serious threat both to the environment and social and economic balance. In order to meet global sustainability targets, rapid urban growth must be channelled into environmentally friendly, sustainable and liveable urban environments. Thus, this special issue focuses on sustainable urban design whic...

the outcomes of development of urbanization as pollution of air, water and urban environment are great threats to the health and safety of urban residents. nowadays, urban areas as centers of population and economic activities show high concentrations of pollutants; so that, inconvenient locations of irksome and pollutant jobs in metropolitans such as isfahan city have led to serious threats to...