Ecological destruction in human-dominated landscapes has significant impacts on environment sustainability internationally. Landscape planning can play a role in mitigating the effects of human-related activities. One element of landscape planning involves the analysis of the biological, spatial and social arrangement of areas in an urban environment and identifying characteristics that are und...

INTRODUCTION This article describes a conceptual participatory design framework for urban planning that integrates various forms of available knowledge and provides enhanced support for stakeholder participation within urban planning. This framework has been initially implemented and tested as a participatory planning workshop in Porto Alegre, Brazil, called World Cup 2014 'Urban Scenarios' , w...

Understanding urban development and defining the problems are essential in urban planning process. Collection and analysis of data are methods that are used to define urban space and its problems. Information systems and computer models are significant tools for applying these methods. Use of information technologies are key components to urban planning education. The syllabus for the fourth se...

the goal of this paper is to develop a decision support system (dss) as a journey planner in complex and large multimodal urban network called rahyar. rahyar attempts to identify the most desirable itinerary among all feasible alternatives. the desirability of an itinerary is measured by a disutility function, which is defined as a weighted sum of some criteria. the weights represent travelers’...

Today, urban transportation has attracted urban planners’ and researchers' attention because of air and noise pollution problems associated with it. In Shahrkord city in Iran, no plans have been made for sustainable transportation, and the available poor transportation infrastructure is not responsive to the growing population of the city. This issue has inflicted the city with serious problems...

Urban planning is the space expression of urban resource configuration. Its central goal is using the effective resource with the lowest ecological cost in exchange for the greatest economic benefits. The current city’s expansion which is dominated by the development, is too fast, which has overlooked the balance between planning and environmental protection. The contradiction between urban dev...