participation of people in their cities and neighborhoods has always been emphasized by researchers and experts in order to improve the quality of citizens’ life and having efficient urban management. however, it seems that providing participation contexts at local level by citizens needs preparations and substrates that facilitate participation. in the meantime, establishing a neighborhood man...

of the Dissertation.................................................................................... ii Preface: Minority Merchants: Agents of Neighborhood Change...................................................... iv Acknowledgements............................................................................................ xiii Table of

In recent years, modeling techniques to study land-use change and to develop scenarios for highlighting possible future pathways of land-use change have been increasingly applied and studied. While modeling results always incorporate uncertainties in terms of input data, model parameters, model boundaries, and model structure, up to now, only few land-use change modeling approaches have explici...

The origin of the concept of using contextual information of Correlation in neighborhood of a pixel for change detection is the simple geo-statistical fact that the same geographical area (neighborhood window) on two dates of imagery will tend to be highly correlated if no or little change has occurred and uncorrelated when change occurs. The main objective of this study is to investigate the u...

PURPOSE Test for a causal relationship between neighborhood design and physical activity within the neighborhood by controlling for self-selection. DESIGN Cross-sectional and quasi-longitudinal analyses of residents of selected neighborhoods. SETTING Eight Northern California neighborhoods. SUBJECTS Random sample of 1682 adults stratified by movers (moved within 1 year) and nonmovers (mov...

neighborhood attachment is closely related to concrete and abstract conceptions that set the scene for a variety of interactions among the residents. it is on the basis of social-physical location which happens over time. neighborhood attachment also enhances the possibility of residents’ social participation in urban neighborhoods and has a bilateral relationship with residents’ satisfaction. ...

As it is commonly understood, Urban neighborhoods play a significant role in developing urbansustainability as the smallest unit of city so that the formation and promotion of neighborhood identity, and focusingon social relationships would be in harmony with urban sustainability. It is believed that a dramatic change in spatialstructure of urban neighborhood include a decline in levels of poli...