Urban regeneration (UR) projects encompass complex decision-making processes that usually comprise a great amount of information collected from numerous data sources which may be uncertain, inconsistent or incomplete. Many stakeholders and other actors provide subjective judgments that need to be considered throughout the decision process. Furthermore, most factors involved in regeneration proj...

Role of urban planning and management in Hyderabad is becoming more and more crucial due to the dramatic increase in urban population and allied urban problems. Hyderabad is experiencing a rapid urbanization rate. Urbanization contributes many advantages in terms of economics, but if uncontrolled, would produce negative consequences to the physical, social and natural environment. With the adva...

A community based comparative cross-sectional study design was employed to assess the mutual consent of women about family planning use in urban and rural villages of Gedeo zone. Two-thirds (67.4%) of women made joint decision on contraceptive use, varying between urban (70.9%) and rural (63.4%) settings. This difference was statistically significant where women in urban setup had a 41% (AOR, 1...

the main purpose of this paper is to study urban management performance in public green spaces (parks) based on economical indexes, social indexes and environmental indexes. for this purposes, we use topsis method that is one of the methods of multiple criteria decision making. the data was obtained through interview and also a questionnaire which was distributed among about 1000 families of ma...

This paper aims at developing a multilevel fuzzy decision support model for urban rail transit planning schemes in China under the background that China is presently experiencing an unprecedented construction of urban rail transit. In this study, an appropriate model using multilevel fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is developed. In the decision process, the followings are considered as th...

Digital Urban Management has become a trend in the development of contemporary cities. This paper presents the design and implementation of an intelligent flood control decision support system (IFCDSS) using statistical analysis to determine the relationship between the data, and integrate data mining technology for digital urban management based on Java EE. The system also provides location-ba...

positioning, including spatial analysis is that much effect in reducing the cost of creating and launching various activities there. that's why one of the important and effective steps projects are considered. one of the preoccupations of urban planners in designing urban spaces and locate the appropriate service areas and is optimal. the main goal of establishing stations to provide fire ...

Since the industrial revolution, our world has experienced rapid and unplanned industrialization and urbanization. As a result, we have had to cope with serious environmental challenges. In this context, explanation of how smart urban ecosystems can emerge, gains a crucial importance. Capacity building and community involvement have always been the key issues in achieving sustainable developmen...