Based on Geography Information System and Virtual Reality technology, a new system of collaborative urban planning and design is established by publishing the future urban developing and planning information in the urban government Website. With the help of the plug-ins supplied by the system, the citizens concerning with public affairs can interact easily with the server in 3D virtual environm...

Women empowerment is a pre-requisite of any country’s development and decision making power of women is an indicator of women empowerment. Most of the previous studies of women decision making mainly focused on the influence of women’s decision making on the child health, child mortality, maternal health care, children drop out from school or some other socio-economic matter of women. However t...

Nowadays there is a high rate of urban expansion which can not be ignored in proper urban management. Parallel to the urban expansion we are faced with an increase in urban problems, which will lead to complexities dealing with the urban management and planning processes. A city is a set of condensed and broad functionalities which requires handling of huge amount and diverse types of geospatia...

Currently, the Chinese government leads urban renewal via a top-down management style with the government playing the role of decision-maker. The decision-making opinions held by groups of stakeholders are divided, which creates many social problems, project technical issues and even civil disorder. This paper uses factor analysis to extract the key variables for decision-making on urban renewa...

Urban regeneration decision-making is a complicated system, which requires that stakeholder interests balance in aspects of the economy, society and environment. It is necessary to identify the key factors affecting urban regeneration and then construct an urban regeneration decision-making evaluation system to provide a basis for objective and comprehensive judgment for urban regeneration deci...

Viewing urban areas as webs of complex, interwoven networks, this article aims to analyze the decision-making process and its outcomes in Tehran metropolitan region. To do so, first the theoretical basis of complexity in urban life and its implications for planning have been reviewed. Using the main notion of power of action i.e. agency, and through creating the network of actors and their rela...

introduction: due to irregular growth and expansion of cities, especially in developing countries, various issues and difficulties have arisen in different economic, social and ecological fields and various measurements and approaches in order to supply desirable conditions for today and future generations. healthy city approach is one these approaches as today it’s a new mechanism proposed by ...