the criteria and standards of green space development should be specified before any planning for green space development. the cities' conditions not only rule the creation of vast and more importantly planned and organized green spaces but also demand vast green space in order to establish ecological balance against made environments. this research tries to study green space per capita in...

high-resolution imagery such as ikonos satellite can produce useful information for many resource management applications. we investigated the capability of pan and multi spectral ikonos imagery of one region of tehran dated from 2005 in urban vegetation management and mapping of green cover. after data quality of images for radiometric noises, the images were geometrically corrected by polynom...

fast and unplanned city growth, has effects such as isolation of village societies, threatening urbancores and centers and small and weak societies, destruction of open spaces and open and natural regions. smart growthoffers a sustainable way for urban developing with appropriate use of available sources, increase of urban services,developing neighborhoods with different uses, making public tra...

knowing income inequality in socio-economic subgroups helps us to achieve justice. the main goal of this study is to evaluate, decompose and compare the theil and atkinson inequality indices in terms of the inequality within and inequality between urban and rural area in tehran province during the 3rd and the 4th economic development program of iran. doing so, we used the micro households'...

The process of the surface urban heat island (SUHI) varies with latitude, climate, topography and meteorological conditions. This study investigated the seasonal variability of SUHI in the Tehran metropolitan area, Iran, with respect to selected surface biophysical variables. Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Surface Temperature (LST) was retrieved as nighttime LS...

BACKGROUND The centralization of human activities is associated with different pollutants which enter into environment easily and cause the urban environment more vulnerable. Regarding the importance of air pollution issue for Tehran metropolis, many plans and regulations have been developed. However, most of them failed to decline the pollution. The purpose of this study was to pathologically ...