iranian traditional cities were created with a system based on experiments and gradual establishment of society through time. qajar era is especially important in iranian art history. until mid qajar era, iranian cities’s architecture mainly took benefit of its common traditional architecture that is already seen in most desert-surrounding cities. till this era, there was not any connection bet...

Driven by rising income and urban population growth, China has experienced rapid urban expansion since the 1980s. Urbanization can have positive effects on the urban environment; however, improvement of urban environment quality, especially its divergence between relatively developed and undeveloped cities in China, is currently a rather rudimentary and subjective issue. This study analyzed urb...

Urban open space is essential in an urban area. It helps to improve the general health and well-being of residents. Dhaka one fastest-growing cities globally but numbers spaces this city are decreasing day by day. Old oldest most densely populated area Dhaka. Here, people do not have minimum for social interaction creating a neighborhood. Central Jail abandoned jail that situated Chawkbazar old...

Stormwater management has significant consequences for urban hydrology, water quality, and flood risk, and has changed substantially over history, but it is unknown how these paradigm shifts play out at the local scale and whether local changes in stormwater infrastructure use follow similar trajectories across cities. This research addressed: (1) How does current infrastructure use and past in...

an urban regeneration project is defined as a series of actions determined to accomplish urban regeneration aims that lead to reduce the problems of an area via improving the socioeconomic, physical and environmental conditions. today, urban regeneration is one of key principles in act of planning and it is beyond the urban renewal, urban redevelopment or urban rehabilitation processes because ...

Examining the planning of cemeteries in the urbanism system of Iran does not show a goodcondition. In fact, cemeteries in the most Persian cities have become large-scale open spaces outside the city. This couldcause irreparable damage to the cities because of the partial and/or improper use of the capacity of urban lands. Alongwith this, historical cemeteries within the cities have been abandon...

objectives the aim of this study was to assess soils of khorramabad metropolis in order to establish the concentration of lead and develop a contamination factor map. materials and methods soil samples were collected from 25 different urban parks in khorramabad, iran. the mean pb contents in the urban topsoil samples were compared with mean concentrations for other cities around the world. a sp...

A large number of studies show that uncontrolled and unplanned spatial and functional developmentsin old central districts of large and medium-sized Iranian cities in past few decades have resulted in many unpleasanttransformations. Thus, the historic urban fabrics have gradually lost their socio-economic livability and quality and thisissue has led to urban distress, blight and deterioration.T...

Brazilian official institutions, following the frequent pattern of developing countries’ urban mismanagement, have not succeeded in wrestling with Brazil’s historic tradition of occupation prior to tenure regularization and of gradual (non-planned) expansion of urban areas (Marx, 1991). This tradition favoured the production of informal settlements, which are increasingly shaping cities’ expans...