about half a century ago, following the introduction of urban sprawl up concept, various studies have been conducted to describe the mechanism and the formation of this phenomenon. some of these studies aimed at finding the negative and positive impacts of such phenomenon on urban area with emphasis on how such concept may be looked open from environmental, economical and social perspectives.th...

studies on urban policy making are widespreading in the developed countries. however, these studies have not been widely established in iran yet. this article is, therefore, an attempt to attract the attention of specialists and students of public policy in iran on the importance of such studies. tehran, one of the largest metropolitans of the world, rightly provides a relevant context to capit...

Due to the inherent discrete nature of sensing, interpolation is a key activity in sensing. Interpolation in urban computing faces an unprecedented inference issue that was not present in large scale traditional sensing environments. Obstacles such as buildings and walls are prevalent in urban sensing, and it is important to consider them in urban sensing interpolation. This paper introduces an...