From Ephemeral Planning to Permanent Urbanism: An Urban Planning Theory of Mega-Events

A Critical View on New Urbanism Theory in Urban Planning: From Theory to Practice

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

The Coordinated Planning Theory (The interacted theory with official structural elements of Iran’s urban planning environment)

Aims & Backgrounds: Today, the inconsistencies range of last seven decades planning and urban plans which were due to the lack of formulating an indigenous theory base on the Iranchr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))s planning environment characteristics, are visible. Achieving to the interacted urban planning theory with the official structural elements of Iran’s planning e...

New urbanism approach and urban space in mega cities

New Urbanism design principles have been adopted for many urban planning efforts in recent years. The purpose of this paper is studding the structure and space of Shahid Beheshti Square as one of the most important and old squares of Tabriz from the view of new urbanism principals. In order to reaching this purpose the data were collected through a questionnaire distributed among peoples that a...

Computer-Supported Participation in Urban Planning from the viewpoint of “Communicative Planning Theory”

New impulses from theoretical discussions on urban planning strengthen the role of participation in urban planning. Combining this development with the options computerand network-based technologies offer promises to improve the citizens' satisfaction with the results of planning procedures. We summarise the new theoretical approaches and discuss first examples and further ideas to realise them...

Motion Planning: From Theory to Practice