there are large areas of the world where seismicity is high while they form the whole or parts of urban conglomeration. iran can be literally compared to a large shaking table; various parts of it have been stricken by earthquake in the last four decades(1). tehran is also expected to have a major earthquake in the near future(2). therefore, urban design criteria for earthquake preparedness i...

Sustainability is observed in many aspects and elements of traditional Iranian architecture, plannerand landscape architecture, and this method was used to solve many problems for many countries. The aim of thisarticle is to achieve a sustainable approach in planning urban renewal projects to identify the relationship betweenurban design considerations and the sustainable development objectives...

this article has been done having the objective of proposed principles regarding the role of urban decline areas and being impressionable in reducing crime. it was an investigation on urban crimes in decline areas, and finally the implementation of an approach that will lead to the creation of a healthy city. the result of this article is application of the urbanization principles aiming at hav...

adverse lifestyle changes like rapid change in dietary habits coupled with decreased physical activity and increasing rates of alcohol and tobacco consumption can increase coronary artery disease risk factors and its mortality even higher than the rates predicted. to evaluate the role of adverse lifestyle changes factors in the causation of cad, a hospital based case-control study was conducted...

6.2.1 The traditional role of municipal bodies had been one of providing basic amenities of civic life. Services such as water supply and sanitation, roads and drains, street-lights, collection and disposal of solid waste, maintenance of public places, burial grounds and crematoria, cattle pounds, registration of births and deaths, maintenance of markets have long been seen as the function of m...