فضاهای شهری با روندی ناموزون و ناهماهنگ با ویژگیهای اجتماعی و فرهنگی جامعه و نیز خواسته ها و نیازهای شهروندان در حال رشد و گسترش هستند که این فرایند ضمن مخدوش نمودن سیما و هویت شهرها سبب ظهور بسیاری از مشکلات اجتماعی و فرهنگی گردیده است و نارضایتی ساکنان شهرها، عدم احساس تعلق آنها به سکونتگاهایشان و در نتیجه عدم احساس مسئولیت در حفظ و ارتقاء آن، افزایش جرائم شهری و نیز عدم احساس امنیت از حضور د...

This paper – ideas in progress – reports on new research that I am developing that is intended to build and extend upon some of my early work in the field of Latin American low-income housing and urban policy development, and which also looks head-on at the issue of urban rehabilitation. However, unlike most of that genre of work which focuses upon the historic core of cities, this research exa...

Urban regeneration is usually defined as a structural and functional change of a certain part of the city powered by individual (corporate) or state initiatives. Many times the question what to regenerate, where and how to regenerate, remains unanswered. We will address the problem of the “sudden appearance” of new actors in urban politics and their growing influence on urban rehabilitation. Th...

It is not easy to imagine how the existing city can be converted to the principles of sustainability, however, the need for innovation, requires a pioneering phase which must address the main problems of rehabilitation of the operating models of the city. Today, however, there is a growing awareness that the identification and implementation of policies and measures to promote the adaptation, r...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify patient and clinical factors most strongly associated with a spinal cord injury patient's risk for developing a pressure ulcer (PU) during rehabilitation. DESIGN This is a prospective observational cohort study conducted at an urban rehabilitation hospital-based specialized spinal cord injury center. The main outcome measure was the onset of a s...

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In this study we investigate an urban planning problem where an area is to be rehabilitated. The area is divided into several sub-areas any of which could be the starting point for the rehabilitation process. The ultimate goal is to find a rank order for the alternative subareas, which simultaneously solves the problem of where to start the rehabilitation. If all information were given on the o...

Mature tourism neighborhoods are a valuable laboratory for the study of socio-urban processes. In them, it is possible to analyze urban transformations and social changes linked cycles: those corresponding stage involvement, development, consolidation; stagnation decline; rejuvenation rehabilitation. Currently, there indications fourth cycle, where vacation rentals arrival new groups foreigners...