Future air pollution emissions in the year 2030 were estimated for the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) in central California using a combined system of land use, mobile, off-road, stationary, area, and biogenic emissions models. Four scenarios were developed that use different assumptions about the density of development and level of investment in transportation infrastructure to accommodate the expec...

Urban planning includes land use management and environmental change. It makes arrangement for community facilities and services. Since, sustainable development has been included as a vital end product of all planning goals it also provides for balanced use of land, housing and transportation and better quality of life. Present urban planning in Pakistan is not ensuring sustainable development ...

This paper discusses the role for urban planning in managing the energy demands of living in Australian cities. Current Australian metropolitan plans all contain sustainability ambitions. Tracking progress and developing strategies to move towards these ambitions requires empirical understanding of urban resource demands. This paper focuses specifically on the energy demands of households, and ...

in iran, new centralization characteristic, especially during pahlavi dynasty, has been convergence and its vast use in bureaucracy. historical sociological studies have consensus on the issues of centralization, power centralization, and political sovereignty in iran; however, these issues have some divisional interruptions and different levels of strength in some parts of the history. this es...

This paper explores the relationships that are held in urban poor areas between architecture and urban development with the people who live in those areas. This research intends to explore, identify and analyze what kind of architecture and urban space is produced when people themselves, using their own initiative, develop their own environments; the above explained placed in my home country, C...

Urban ecosystem health evaluation can assist in sustainable ecological management at a regional level. This study examined urban agglomeration ecosystem health in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River with entropy weight and extension theories. The model overcomes information omissions and subjectivity problems in the evaluation process of urban ecosystem health. Results showed that human cap...

historic urban areas are a significant part of each city not only due to having irreplaceable cultural and social resources, but also due to their attractive patterns of life. they have being threatened by strong development trends. this paper aims to investigate the impacts of redevelopment trends in the historic city of shiraz, iran. the paper begins by highlighting historical development in ...

in critical analysis, different aspects of an issue will be analyzed from point of view of current discourse of society. the objective of this paper, is to critically analyze the economic goals of development plans (pre and post revaluation). in this respect, many papers and research report has been considered and the results show that critical discourse have paid attention to plans and its eco...

objective: in addition to issues such as environment, transportation, safely and urban planning, one of the most important factors  having increasingly influence on urban organizing factors is urban management. methods: there are so many issues in cities that for its solving, urban management factor is necessary. complexity and  extensiveness of urban issue and its  development and growth, led ...