tehran city has been subject of critical environmental challenges during the course of 20th. century namely: massive population growth, broad expansion, reduction in urban open/green spaces, increasing in energy consumption and waste production. releasing industrial wastewater into river valleys have led to considerable changes in structure of city's natural landscape. the natural structur...

Urban areas are continuously expanding today, extending their influence on an increasingly large proportion of woods and trees located in or nearby urban and urbanizing areas, the so-called urban forests. Although these forests have the potential for significantly improving the quality the urban environment and the well-being of the urban population, data to quantify the extent and characterist...

Large cities are multifaceted organisms. They arena of social and urban conflicts. In current conditions technological development improvement the environment quality, local authorities increasingly reorganize industrial areas.
 The relevance article is determined by global trend finding new forms renovation depressed areas, which explored quite well reflected in general vector policy deve...

This study presents a practical methodology to monitor the spatiotemporal characteristics of urban expansion in response to rapid urbanization at the provincial scale by integrating remote sensing, urban built-up area boundaries, spatial metrics and spatial regression. Sixty-seven cities were investigated to examine the differences of urbanization intensity, urbanization patterns and urban land...

Urban landmarks are frequently used in way-finding and representations of spatial knowledge. However, assessing the salience of urban landmarks is difficult. Moreover, no method exists to rapidly extract urban landmarks from basic geographic information databases. The goal of this paper is to solve these problems from the dual aspects of spatial knowledge representation and public spatial cogni...

New revitalization and regeneration strategies are currently taking place as a scheme for reassessing urban spaces. This paper, result, navigates the theory of Urban Acupuncture (UA) quick effective tool that can be adopted in large cities. Using Riyadh city case study, it discusses how this used to achieve maximum results with minimal effort most critical places. is capital Saudi Arabia consid...