Advantages of urbanization such as access to clean water, health, and overall easier life in cities, as well as the disadvantages or its negative effects on environment cannot be ignored. Today, there are numerous environmental problems due to the reduction in ecologically valuable places within urban areas. Bringing nature to the cities appears to be essential to enhance urban environment and ...

Abstract Digital architecture, as a proceeding architectural style, has caused fundamental evolutions in architectural design and building appearance via applying complex geometries and topologies. Computers and digital tools have truly altered the design process and architectural conception facilitating production of new eye catching forms. Avant-garde architectural forms have emerged from the...

city growth and environmental difficulties last decades leads the art of urban design and development think more precisely and new approaches for conserving environment and developing urban areas have been evolved.the present study deals with concepts related to ecology in the city and in particular the theory of ecological urbanism and its criteria is expressed. also theory and characteristics...

Article history: Received 19 August 2015 Received in revised form 25 April 2016 Accepted 26 April 2016 Available online xxxx State and local governments are increasingly considering the adoption of legislation to promote green infrastructure (e.g., bioswales, green roofs) for stormwatermanagement. This interest emerges from higher frequencies of combined sewer outflows, floods and exposure of r...

Increasing volumes of spatial data about urban areas are captured and made available via volunteered geographic information (VGI) sources, such as OpenStreetMap (OSM). Hence, new opportunities arise for regional exploration that can lead to improvements in the lives of citizens through spatial decision support. We believe that the VGI data of the urban environment could be used to present a con...

Abstract: Urban residents’ health depends on green infrastructure to cope with climate change. Shrinking cities could utilize vacant land to provide more green space, but declining tax revenues preclude new park development—a situation pronounced in Japan, where some cities are projected to shrink by over ten percent, but lack green space. Could informal urban green spaces (IGS; vacant lots, st...

Predicted rapid increases in urbanization the face of accelerating biodiversity loss underscores need for urban development that promotes, rather than displaces, native plants and animals. One approach increasing is through “green infrastructure”. Although research has explored urban-rural gradients overall value green infrastructure, few studies have investigated habitat wildlife different typ...