rapid urban population is widely known as the main inducement of growing cities in terms of quantity and variety in form. however, the city expansion entails physical challenges and it has profound impacts on the issue of urban morphology. it raises global awareness beyond the urbanism and includes sociology, psychology, economics as well as environmental studies due to the implications of broa...

physical development of rural areas can be effective when occur conducted and controlled, and, options are reviewed and evaluated for this purpose before the site selection of them. in the present study using ten villages of khaf county as the study area and identifying the status quo, first identified restrictive criteria involved in the physical development of these villages, and using descri...

disasters provide physical, social, political and environmental development windows of opportunities that can be used not only to reconstruct the impacted areas, but also to improve the socio-economic and physical conditions of the impacted population in the long run. it is argued, however, that there is a limited time frame of approximately four years for such opportunities to be utilized effi...