the present paper studies the objectives and functions of constructing the new towns before and after the revolution in iran. before the revolution, new towns were established based on political – bureaucratic objectives, for the operation of huge oil resources and affiliated industries, to accommodate the workforce in industrial complexes, to implement the policy of regional decentralization...

Archaeological Dialogues / Volume 22 / Issue 02 / December 2015, pp 146 149 DOI: 10.1017/S1380203815000203, Published online: 02 November 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1380203815000203 How to cite this article: Monica L. Smith (2015). Towns and cities. A commentary on ‘performing towns’. Archaeological Dialogues, 22, pp 146-149 doi:10.1017/S1380203815000203 ...

The life of Towns has become more important and greatly emphasized in recent years and this heralds the arrival of a new era when this type of settlements is introduced as major living and investment capacities. Therefore, it is necessary to study the different aspects of towns in order to plan and manage their development and answer the question about different decision-making mechanism in the...

Doctor shortage is a constant problem in smaller cities and towns, which tend to be more vulnerable from a social and economic point of view, and located in geographically isolated areas. The goal of this study was to establish the share and characteristics of the small cities and towns in the macro-region of northern Paraná that subscribed to the Mais Médicos para o Brasil (PMMB) program. This...

Predicting urban growth is important for practical reasons, and also for the challenge it presents to theoretical frameworks for cluster dynamics [1–3]. Recently, the model of diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) [4,5] has been applied to describe urban growth [1], and results in tree-like dendritic structures which have a core or “central business district” (CBD). The DLA model predicts that th...