The study seeks to address the importance of urban stream ecosystems from the perspective of urban ecology, human health and social well-being in the context of urban planning. The case study area is Paveh stream in the City of Paveh. The data from the case study area were gathered from questionnaire, existing scientific and library studies and by conducting interviews with residents and auth...

In virtually all cities across the world, the worst health problems and premature deaths are highly concentrated in neighbourhoods that also experience a host of other social inequalities, including lack of basic sanitation and water services, high poverty rates, residential segregation, and concentrations of environmentally noxious facilities. Yet, contemporary urban planning practice, which e...

the aim of this research is to analyze the environmental principals which are used for land use planning of iranian communities in order to determine whether they are sufficient and efficient for conserving and improving the quality of urban environments or not. first, the environmental principals were extracted from municipal local plans (community plans) of the spatial planning systems of ira...

in order to respond to the problem of urban decline, different approaches have been defined in sucha way that urban regeneration approach became current in the 1980s (and more wildly after 1995) as a replacement for urban renewal. urban regeneration is the holistic process of reversing economic, social and physical decay in areas where it has reached a stage when market forces alone will not su...

one of the important problems in the urban development process in the world has been land use and planning for urban sustainability. considering this important issue, this study investigates spatial analysis and urban land use planning in dogonbadan. this research is applied- analytical and by applying land extension index and hensen model intends to study and plan urban land use in this city. ...

This paper was prepared in response to the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) 1999 Summer Assembly application challenge. The purpose of that challenge was to review the achievements and implications of geographic information science relevant to urban and regional planning. The review identified five areas of geographic information science contributions: geographic...

Sustainable development is a key component in urban studies. Earth Observation (EO) can play a valuable role in sustainable urban development and planning, since it represents a powerful data source with the potential to provide a number of relevant urban sustainability indicators. To this end, in this paper we propose a conceptual list of EO-based indicators capable of supporting urban plannin...

configuration of urban land use arrangement system, how to divide and how to use urban lands are advantages of environmental, economic, social, politic and rightly forces. with extension of urbanization and development of urban and regional planning, this concept is more widely hold a special place in the form of projects such as: land preparation, framework planning, general and comprehensive,...

Urban spatial structure is an important feature for assessing the effects of urban planning. Quantifying cannot only help in identifying problems with current planning but also provide a basic reference future adjustments. Evaluation difficult task planners and researchers this has been usually carried out by comparing different land use structures. However, these methods efficiently reflect in...