this article begins with explanation of ict importance in cities restructuring with emphasizing on spatial behavior of ict firms in a tehran metropolis. the main purpose of this article is to examine the determinants of location decision making by ict firms as well as their transnational function in tehran’s international relations. analyses of data collected from 50 firms of almost 500, includ...

The influence of urban design on economic vitality has been analyzed by a number of researchers and is also a key focus of many planning/design theories. However, most quantitative studies are based on just one city or a small set of cities, rather than a large number of cities that are representative of an entire country. With the increasing availability of new data, we aim to alleviate this g...

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

Big data and predictive analytics have the potential to make cities more efficient. Yet cities often lack the resources to use new data and methods effectively, and private researchers often lack the incentives to help solve the problems that cities face. New platforms—such as Kaggle, TopCoder, and DrivenData—now enable governments and other organizations to outsource large-scale prediction pro...

Globalization and transport revolution, logistics integration, and the consequent expansion of port area and hinterland in the maritime industry have redefined the functional role of ports in supply chains and have generated a new pattern of freight distribution. This phenomenon again requires a new approach towards port development and related urban planning. Such changes have inevitably influ...

This study examines categorical and spatial patterns for trending venues in three cities. The three cities in our experiment are New York City, NY, Pittsburgh, PA and Erie, PA. We examine common categories of venues that trend in our test cities and see a similar theme in each city favoring foodbased venues, nightlife venues and other venues. We map the venues in each city and perform a nearest...

China’s new urbanization development strategy needs to be supported by rational urban systems. Here, a comprehensive diagnostic index system that uses GIS technology and a Chinese urban scale structure rationality diagnostic model, functional structure rationality diagnostic model, spatial structure rationality diagnostic model and Chinese urban development rationality diagnostic model is used ...

as the urban population increases in major cities of iran, many of them face different issues. in iran, new towns are built and located near cities to absorb their overflow population. golbahar new town was built near mashhad metropolis to reduce demographic, economic, social and physical problems of mashhad, but in practice considering its goals, the town has not been able to reduce the proble...

Informational cities are prototypical cities of the knowledge society. If they are informational world cities, they are new centers of power. According to Manuel Castells (1989), in those cities space of flows (flows of money, power, and information) tend to override space of places. Information and communication technology infrastructures, cognitive infrastructures (as groundwork of knowledge ...