Green space is one of the important infrastructures for keeping natural life and sustainability in modern urbanism and it provides excellent recreational opportunities for the people in the society. However, there are limiting factors in green space development, especially in arid regions, including extreme weather and soil temperatures, low average rainfall, drought, and high potential for eva...

land use changes are one of the important consequences of urban spatial extent. regarding the role of green space as one of important land use classes in urban ecosystems, the investigations of its changes seem to be crucial. in this study, to estimate the changes of green space, the ndvi index was applied to tm and irs images of 1990 and 2006 and green space maps of district 1 of tehran munici...

green space, as a social development indicator has environmental, social, cultural, economical, and skeletal aspects and to be able to play its role effectively, the first and most important step is to select an appropriate site for it. site selection necessitates stability analysis of urban green space. the main three steps are identifying stability factors, ahp-based weighting factors and lay...

the purpose of this research was to assess the role of educational factors in protecting urbanlandscapes in tehran metropolitan. this is a quantitative research, applied and descriptivecorrelationmethod was used. the research population consisted of all participants in educationalcourses held by tehran municipality (n=300) and 172 of them selected by using simple randomsampling method. to gathe...

In the present era, the importance and role of green space in the life and development of cities are to the extent that it is mentioned as one of the indicators of sustainable development. In sustainable urban development, proportional distribution of green space according to the balanced distribution of the population is one of the principles of establishing geographical justice. The purpose o...

Urban green space is one of the important solicitude for urban planners and designers due to their effects on quality of life. This research used HPM model to estimate economic value of urban green space, in a case study of trees in Velenjak residential place, Tehran Metropolitan Area in Iran. View determined the spread tree on the public spaces and neighbourhoods improve residential lan...

In this paper, the concept and connotation of urban green space and ecosystem service were expatiated, and the research advance in ecosystem service of urban green space was reviewed. The studies of ecosystem service of urban green space in overseas were focused on improving the quality of urban environment, maintaining biodiversity, providing amenity values, and ecosystem management; while in ...

nowadays programming and designing of green space of urban area, without considering the criteria for 'optimum standards of green areas is impossible, . in this research, it is tried to determine, the per capita standard rate of green space in different regions of gorgan city, . the applied methedology is an integration of several international and local methods, based on the principles of...

From the ecological effect of urban green space system, this paper illustrates the necessity and importance of inter-disciplinary evaluation of the urban green space system from the ecological perspective and analyzes the mechanism of action of urban green space in relieving the heat island effect. The quantitative evaluation approach for the thermal environmental impact of urban green space sy...

extended abstract 1. introduction the important roles played by green space are the social, economic, cultural and environmental aspects of sustainable development. thus, the quality and quantity of green space should be appropriate to the physical size of the city and the needs of society and also it should be developed according to the ecological conditions of the city and its future developm...