*Corresponding Author Email: [email protected] Tel.: +98 21 4402 2067 Fax: +98 21 4402 2067 Note: Discussion period for this manuscript open until June 1, 2017 on GJESM website at the “Show Article”. ABSTRACT: Sustainable urban development is a new concept of fundamental environmental metropolitan management that not only creates the demand for changing the concepts of economic development, but ...

tehran has been facing water shortage challenge for decades and it has not hesitated to exploit neighboring watersheds. rising demand and limited resources might make water crisis a strong possibility in the near future. an accurate and applied analysis of tehran's urban water system (uws) would be the first step to be taken to prevent such a crisis. this research is an effort to make an a...

To cite this article: Yan Liu (2012): Modelling sustainable urban growth in a rapidly urbanising region using a fuzzy-constrained cellular automata approach, This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly ...

extended abstract: introduction creative city is a place with a strong flourish of arts and culture, creativity and innovation with four scenarios of creative human capital, quality of life, innovation and investment in social in order to use of sustainable development indicators. the aim of this study is an analysis of the relationship between sustainable development indicators and criteria of...

Community is the main pillar of the urban body; and balance of social life in cities depends on preserving communities. During the twentieth century, the idea of residential-centered community has been offered in many modern theories and has been widely accepted for solving urban various problems such as management, social and human relations, health and welfare issues and aspects of meaning an...

objective: the role and importance of urban green space in urban life and physical stability and effectiveness of the system returns to different urban ecological, economic and social, it is undeniable, as far as public green space per capita in cities and urban management planning program is considered one of the main discussion. urban green spaces should be one of the most essential factors t...

The urban development process displays regressive tacit-dominant knowledge areas and their tacit level would impede their movements during multi-level knowledge transfers among stakeholders. The accuracy of a knowledge may be distorted when recipient stakeholders fail to understand a specific knowledge for its purpose. Earlier studies by the authors had highlighted complex yet dynamic environme...

Nowadays, the expansion of the cities is an inevitable necessity; increasing the dependence of the citizens on motor vehicles and, consequently, making development of the transportation networks a necessity rather than an option. Thus, increasing car ownership and car use has created many problems for the cities, such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, environmental pollution, casualties o...