security is one of the most critical factors affecting the quality of urban spaces. nowadays, most of these spaces have become merely pathways with neither social life nor sense of belonging to it. insufficiency of public surveillance along with weak sense of control and surveillance results in spaces with high crime rate. in the late 60s and early 70s, high crime statistics in open urban space...

Purpose of this article is to introduce different approaches in reviewing the mutual relationship between the built environment and citizen’s behavioral patterns in public spaces with applying analytical and comparative methods by using a questionnaire, a sample of 200 members of the audience in two streets of Mashhad, Kouhsangi and Qaranei, by using two tests of the ordinal logistic regression...

Ecological destruction in human-dominated landscapes has significant impacts on environment sustainability internationally. Landscape planning can play a role in mitigating the effects of human-related activities. One element of landscape planning involves the analysis of the biological, spatial and social arrangement of areas in an urban environment and identifying characteristics that are und...

notwithstanding a century of prohibition, marijuana is the most widely used illicit substance in canada. due to the growing public acceptance of recreational marijuana use and ineffectiveness of the existing control system in canada, the issue surrounding legalizing this illicit drug has received considerable public and political attentions in recent years. consequently, the newly elected liber...

Faced with the restrictions imposed on most Ukrainian cities due to increased quarantine pandemic, all major recreational activities of society began take place in open urban spaces, which would allow attract necessary social distance. Respecting this trend, it is create a sufficient number public spaces city that meet needs society.
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Cities, as the focused centers for human residence and settlement, are faced with various issues and problems. The high rate of crime and anomic behavior are characteristics of today’s major cities. Fear of crime and anomic behavior is perceived as the most important reasons leading to a decline in the use of public spaces in cities by its residents. According to the mutual relation between env...

one of the most important sectors of each city where the citizens social interaction occur and urban life flow carry, are public spaces. one conditions for people presence in these spaces is securing their social security sense. nowadays different factors such as cultural, social, economic and physical in cities public spaces, especially in big cities like tehran, have cause abnormal social beh...

sociability of educational spaces is crucial to the quality of education because a major part of learning takes place through attending public spaces, acting in spaces, social interaction with peers, and collective life in public spaces. sociability provides for the users’ social needs. the present study seeks to explore the development of sociability in educational spaces through increasing op...