Economic tools and regulatory systems for the urban environment 60 Land use and strategic urban planning 61 Spatial planning on the urban periphery 61 Mixed use planning and urban design policies 61 Transport planning and management 62 Preserving cultural heritage 63 Use of green space in urban areas 63 Urban agriculture and forestry 63 Integrated approaches to urban management 64 Site planning...

Identifying the patterns in urban mobility is important for a variety of tasks such as transportation planning, urban resource allocation, emergency planning etc. This is evident from the large body of research on the topic, which has exploded with the vast amount of geo-tagged user-generated content from online social media. However, most of the existing work focuses on a specific setting, tak...

Bhumi is published by the Town & Country Planning Research Institute of University Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and La Trobe University, Australia.Bhumi serves a wide range subject areas directly indirectly related to Urban Rural Planning, Economics, Development, Governance, Management, Environmental Resource Construction, Housing, Infrastructure, Design, Politics, Technology etc.

Choosing proper locations of urban transit hubs has always been one of the critical concerns facing urban transportation planning agencies in China. This study proposes a mixed integer optimal location model for urban transit hubs, with the objective to minimize the demand-weighted total travel time, when explicitly taking into account Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZs) as demand origins or destinat...

spain has had so many evolutions in its urban planning system and it is one of the countries with regional system. regarding to its successful experience in this issue, this research tries to look over this system. in this respect, we will introduce the general characteristic of this country and will review urban system in its different levels. at the end, we will point to new urban acts and ac...

Planners have regarded understanding urban use per capita since the beginning of new thinking of urban development. This was stared with its pragmatics toward primary comprehensive urban plans and became a source for urban development plans that have tried to adapt per capita and standards with country’s conditions. Iran's Supreme Council for Planning and Architecture, determined standards per ...

one of the critical issues related to sustainable urban in twenty-first century, is the growth and development of the city in space and on this basis, the civil management was forced to think about urban development. tehran metropolis with its growing, developing immersive and without physical, environmental instability surrounding the statue has arrived. one of the ways for decentralization an...

Bhumi is published by the Town & Country Planning Research Institute of University Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and La Trobe University, Australia.Bhumi serves a wide range subject areas directly indirectly related to Urban Rural Planning, Economics, Development, Governance, Management, Environmental Resource Construction, Housing, Infrastructure, Design, Politics, Technology etc.