‘Green’ spaces might be very attractive, but where are the economic benefits? What value do nature and landscape have for us? What difference will it make to jobs, health and the economic strength of areas struggling with deprivation and social problems? [1].There is a need to consider green spaces from a different perspective. Green planning is not just about flora and fauna, but also about pl...

public participation is counted as one of the main indexes in sustainable urban management.based on their nature, metropolitan cities has several and complex problems. for this purpose tehranmetropolitan area is selected. quantitative strategic planning matrix (qspm) weighted through a made-byresearcherquestionnaire. the reliability of the model was verified by cronbach’s alpha coefficient. eva...

Biosecurity issues in rural areas including the rural-urban fringe have been on the national government agenda for decades. However, these issues are rarely linked to the land use pattern and the planning processes that frame the peri-urbanisation process. International, national, regional and localised stressors leading to each new biosecurity threat seem to constantly overshadow the ongoing t...

It is the living conditions in the cities that determine the future of our livelihood. “To change life, we must first change space”Henri Lefebvre. Sustainable development is a utopian aspiration for South African cities (especially the case study of the Gauteng City Region), which are currently characterized by unplanned growth and increasing urban sprawl. While the reasons for poor environment...

rapid urbanization has brought environmentally, socially, and economically great challenges to cities and societies. to build a sustainable city, these challenges need to be faced efficiently and successfully. this paper focuses on the environmental issues and investigates the ecological approaches for planning sustainable cities through a comprehensive review of the relevant literature. the re...

The Gender Source Book is organised into 3 parts. Part One presents the essence of the Source Book, (a) the context and the concept of gender responsive environmental planning and management (EPM), (b) the process of gender responsive EPM, drawn lessons of experiences from cities and programmes, and (c) the lessons learnt and challenges. Part Two contains the summaries of twenty practical case ...