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...

analyzing spatial planning system in different countries could help make appropriate decisions to improve functional system of planning in our country. belgium, inspite of its limited area, has a unique planning system which is derived from political and social condition. belgium has a federal system which is composed of three cultural societies and three economic regions. spatial planning is i...

A growing body of literature has highlighted the value social science for conservation, yet diverse approaches sciences are still inconsistently incorporated in conservation initiatives. Building greater capacity integration requires frameworks and case studies that provide concrete guidance specific examples. To address this need, we have developed a framework aimed at expanding role formal pl...

Imagining the future helps anticipate and prepare for what is coming. This has great importance to many, if not all, human endeavors. In this paper, we develop the Planning Projector system prototype, which applies plan-recognition-asplanning technique to both explain the observations derived from analyzing relevant news and social media, and project a range of possible future state trajectorie...