the aim of this research paper was to determine the role of urban space design on cities competitiveness in the process of globalization. in the era of globalization and with the rush of investors to find attractive places for investment, cities are becoming the focal points for investors and the urban managers, who need to present a variety of attractions to draw financial capital and be able ...

due to the change of lifestyle and improvement of public health the number of aged people has considerably increased. considering the relationship of the environment and people, the built environment features could exacerbate or facilitate the elderly people’s vulnerability and social needs. recently, a large number of studies have put emphasis on the relationship between the neighborhoods’ ope...

introduction urban landscape is experiencing rapid changes which put all urban domains under pressures. these processes revolutionize urban landscape into spaces without ecologic values. the sustainability of green patches and corridors has been scathed by lack of ecological approaches in planning and design. therefore, urban green spaces structures and functions have been damaged. green spaces...

this paper evaluates and ranks the temporal dimensions, known as fourth dimension of urban design, of a number of places in a city by topsis method. topsis method is technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution. topsis is one of the renowned methods for classical multi-criteria decision-making (mcdm) problems that defines the positive ideal solution and negative ideal solution...