Urban agriculture offers an alternative land use for integrating multiple functions in densely populated areas. While urban agriculture has historically been an important element of cities in many developing countries, recent concerns about economic and food security have resulted in a growing movement to produce food in cities of developed countries including the United States. In these region...

The project aims to develop, test and apply a Geographical Information System (GIS) for modelling access for wheelchair users in urban areas. The principal focus is to provide a GIS system that will work as a decision support and mapping tool for urban planners. In addition, the system has been designed to encompass future developments, including use as a guidance device to help wheelchair user...

Shrinking cities are characterized by a huge oversupply of dwellings and resulting residential vacancies. Discussions among urban planners and policymakers in Europe have focused on the consequences of urban shrinkage following demographic transition, fertility decline and individualization. In this study, the shrinking city of Leipzig in Eastern Germany is singled out as a case basis for the s...

nowadays, a noticeable part of areas with high development in different regions of the world is urban centers with touristy attractions. thus, in these cities, urban development comes forth as a basic challenge to decision makers and local planners. the aim of this research is to identify the driving forces which affect urban growth in the sareyn town, as one of the best known touristy centers ...

The concept of a focused ethnographic study (FES) emerged as a new methodology to answer specific sets of questions that are required by agencies, policymakers, programme planners or by project implementation teams in order to make decisions about future actions with respect to social, public health or nutrition interventions, and for public-private partnership activities. This paper describes ...

The issue of self-selection’s role in shaping travel patterns, by impacting one’s home location choice, is a critical question. Developers, planners and policymakers regularly debate to what extent the built environment and land use patterns can alleviate roadway congestion, greenhouse gas emissions and myriad other urban problems. This study illustrates the use of Heckman’s (1976, 1979) latent...

Population growth in the world has increased pressure of urbanization and led to expansion urban areas. In addition, this situation caused some problems production food cities. These can be solved by applying peri-urban agriculture, which is an alternative land use model where interfaces urban-rural context best evaluated. addition being a sustainable use, agriculture also contributes environme...

urban environments rely on the surrounding natural ecosystems remnants as providers of ecosystemfunctions, therefore these areas not only support a unique biodiversity but also have a social value for maintainingpublic health andwellbeing. for this reason, urbanization is considered to be one the biggest threats to ecosystems,leading to native biodiversity simplification and, thus, to a detrime...