Ecological City Planning in Urban Planning and Design

Urban Ecological Landscape Planning and Design from Garden City toward Modern City - a Case Study: Tehran City in Iran

It is widely believed that urban ecological landscape regards the city to be an ecosystem built by human activities and supported by natural and man-made functions and processes over time. In the past, human communities have selected their residing places and designed their cities by paying attention to natural environmental resources. The profound influence of technology and industry has broug...

Urban infoscapes: new tools to inform city design and planning

Planning for Future Urban Services in the Smart City Era: Integrating E-services in Urban Planning Process

Information and communication technology (ICT) has transformed how we live our lives and the way we interact in different contexts. Benefits of ICT and its upcoming efficiencies (i.e. energy efficiency) are becoming the heart of many public services’ reforms which have influenced the time, distance and space concepts. At present, not only there is a lack of clarity about what high-quality ICTba...

Use of ecological information in urban planning

Academic dissertation To be presented, with permission of the Faculty of Biosciences of the University of Helsinki, for public criticism in the lecture hall 2 of Viikki Information Centre (Viikinkaari 11) on December 2 nd 2006 at 12 o'clock noon.

City Planning Using Integrated Urban Modelling

This paper explores the use of weighted space syntax models to contribute to the process of integrated urban planning for Jeddah as part of a major planning project in the Saudi Arabia. The Municipality of Jeddah commissioned the production of an integrated suite of planning documents. These plans coordinate Strategic, Sub-Regional, Structural and Local plans across a citywide region and aim to...