How has urban greening related to the degree of whiteness in neighborhoods? The answer this question provides an essential “historical diagnostic” that can be used develop approach ecology which integrates racial and ethnic change into planning for proposed interventions. In paper we employ state sequence analysis analyze historical trend (including implementation new parks, greenways, communit...

The present paper focuses on determining the most important factors affecting urban growth in large cities of Iran through modeling and comparing the common and diverse points of urban growth obtained from other studies. For this purpose, by reviewing the theoretical concepts associated with urban growth, quantities and measurable variables are developed as proper frameworks to study the influe...

Cities are essential players in responding to the present complex environmental and social challenges, such as climate change. The nature-based solution (NbS) concept is identified scientific discourse further recognized by European Commission a part of address challenges. Deploying NbS urban contexts requires cooperation different public private stakeholders manage those processes. In this pap...

BACKGROUND Successfully increasing cycling across a broad range of the population would confer important health benefits, but many potential cyclists are deterred by fears about traffic danger. Media coverage of road traffic crashes may reinforce this perception. As part of a wider effort to model the system dynamics of urban cycling, in this paper we examined how media coverage of cyclist fata...

Economic theories of systems of cities explain why production and consumption activities are concentrated in a number of urban areas of different sizes and industrial composition rather than uniformly distributed in space. These theories have been successively influenced by four paradigms: i) conventional urban economics emphasizing the tension between economies due to the spatial concentration...