The ecological reconstruction forms and methods of rural settlements were explored in the paper. The construction project of Hedong town resettlement was as research subject in order to reconstruct the traditional rural settlements. The location settlement, settlement distribution form and space of street, and the reconstruction of ecological architecture system were used as research method. Th...

mashhad, as the second metropolis of iran with a population of 2.5 million, now hosts 820,000 people who are unauthorized residenrts of 60 informal settlements spread over 3200 hectares. kuye nohdarreh is one of such settlements with a population of 27,000 people, in an area of 80 hectares, located in the 9th district of mashhad municipality and selected as case study in this research. this art...

extended abstractintroductionin the past decades, development policies in the country have caused negativeeffects on regions. these policies have caused the mass evacuation of ruralsettlement and the imbalance hierarchy of settlements. the reflect of these policiesare visible in the rapid and uneven growth of large cities and eliminate loops linkingbetween cities and rural settlements from the ...