Digital realm: Implications on urban development and planning

The Digital Individual and the Private Realm

Geographic information systems and the technological family associated with them—global positioning systems, geodemographics, and remote surveillance systems—raise important questions with respect to the issue of privacy. Of most immediate import, the systems store and represent data in ways that render ineffective the most popular safeguards against privacy abuse. But the systems are associate...

Strategic urban development planning with emphasis on popular participation (Case study: Shahrreza worn texture) *

the effects of planning on accuracy and complexity of iranian efl students’ written narrative task performance

this study compared the different effects of form-focused guided planning vs. meaning-focused guided planning on iranian pre-intermediate students’ task performance. the study lasted for three weeks and concentrated on eight english structures. forty five pre-intermediate iranian students were randomly assigned to three groups of guided planning focus-on-form group (gpfg), guided planning focus...

Urban Planning and Health Disparities: Implications for Research and Practice

In virtually all cities across the world, the worst health problems and premature deaths are highly concentrated in neighbourhoods that also experience a host of other social inequalities, including lack of basic sanitation and water services, high poverty rates, residential segregation, and concentrations of environmentally noxious facilities. Yet, contemporary urban planning practice, which e...

Implications of legal and organizational issues for urban digital government development

This paper discusses implications of the convergence of legal and organizational issues in the context of developing and implementing digital government projects in large urban settings. By the convergence of legal and organizational issues we refer to two important aspects of urban government: (1) the close relationship between legal/policy structures and the way government is organized and fu...