Various factors affect the degree of mass crime of an environment, including social, economic, and physical factors. The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of the physical components of an environment on mass crime rate. In this regard, open spaces between residential complexes were selected as the case studies and based on five outdoor patterns including linear pattern, disper...

It is widely accepted that the concentration of people living in high-density city centers offers greater operational energy efficiency and lower greenhouse gas emissions than lower-density expanded suburbs. The prevailing assumption is that lower-density suburbs are dominated by larger low-rise buildings that have higher building energy use requirements and greater per-person automobile travel...

construction of large commercial complexes in residential land-use (rlu) or green space land-use (gslu) areas in the metropolitan centers of the country is growing more every day. expansion of such complexes has different influences where one of the most important consequences is on the transportation side. in this study, the transport related effects of a specific land-use change will be inves...