today’s transportation is known as one of the most important elements of urban development structure. public transportation, according to its more extensive functional capacity, can play a vital role in wider scale. transit oriented development by focusing on the subways is one of the special approaches in this field. recently, tehran public transport fleet has significantly improved especially...

Expanding public transportation is not enough to solve the urban sprawl problem resulted from an auto-orientation perspective. So urban planning experts paid attention to integrated and coordinated planning of urban development with public transportation, which reached to sustainable urban development. The purpose of this study is to review the researches in transit-oriented development (TOD) a...

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the current status and quality of urban and regional development has been criticized by many academics and professionals in different fields. at city centers in addition to traffic congestion, population growth, urban and regional sprawl and suburbanization have resulted in unsustainable conditions in many cities all around the world. in this regard, different aspects of urban form, especially ...

There has been much discussion about the shift to compact cities in last decade. Transit-oriented development (TOD) introduced many countries promote cities. However, low density occurs with heterogeneous and random spatial patterns. It impedes creation of people-friendly, sustainable cities, making it challenging attract investments necessary create a city’s core. This phenomenon is serious is...