The roof garden has great functioning of smoothing the shortage of land resource in the city and making use of the land resource diversity and efficiently. The modern era, following the fast development of economic and society, people have a high claim to green roof or roof garden. It is an efficient and reasonable way to exploit the open space the roof of the building. From the classic roof ...

In this paper we discuss the theoretical background and methodology of a multifractal planning decision support system. It enables to avoid fragmentation of continuous open space and continuous built-up space while at the same time ensuring good traffic flow between green spaces and urbanized areas. Thus it supports to create a sustainable and sustaining built environment.

based on a gender equity perspective and within a pluralistic civil society, women should have equal rights for presence in and use of urban open spaces. despite this, various factors decrease their presence including inappropriate design of space, as well as socio-cultural obstacles. since women’s major place of presence and activity has traditionally been in or near home, neighborhood open sp...