Scholarship in urban sociology has pointed to the reliance of city governments on ever-more market mechanisms for organizing social and economic policy. This form of governance involves prioritizing cities’ cultural and social assets for their value in a global competition of urban “brands,” each competing for new infusions of human and investment capital. At the same time, however, cities have...

Accessibility and transport provision have played a key role in shaping the development patterns of major urban areas internationally. While future urban development patterns are subject to fluctuations of the economy and resulting resource decisions we can at a minimum explore potential likely future development scenarios based on current evidence and projections. In this study developed with ...

in order to achieve sustainable development, nowadays, many countries have been paying attention to bottom-up planning and planning for smallest urban :union:s (residential communities). this paper aims to promote sustainability level of sarab and sajjad residential communities and provide appropriate solutions for promoting quality of these communities. the results related to indicators of the...

Sustainability is a multidisciplinary developing science, and sustainable urban development focuses on socioeconomic, cultural, environmental dimensions. Sustainable considered as form of covering spaces. Therefore, sustainability regarded one the most important issues in planning. The present study aims to evaluate nine regions Tehran’s District 4 using barometer sustainability. area, twenty p...

The concept of sustainable development is closely related to that sustainability assessment, as it implies a process evaluation progress made over time. In this context, indicators present themselves key and fundamental element for measuring evaluating the specific issues compose different phenomena be monitored. Indeed, they constitute tool can provide qualitative or quantitative data informat...

Although the current literature includes discussions relating to the sustainability of the built human community, planning professions have focused their attention on continued technological solutions to environmental problems. These interventions attempt to stabilize the problem at hand through further technological infusion increasing the gap between the origination of the problem and ecologi...

Cities are increasingly challenged in sustaining their growing populations with food. As fossil energy reserves are depleted, the sustainability of food production is highly dependent on the ability to yield more food relative to resource use. In preparing cities for peak oil, urban food systems are therefore needed that make better use of local and renewable resources, as opposed to imported a...