ion, and the like. The science of climate change and its impacts is very uncertain, though this does not distinguish it from the science of water and sanitation. A more obvious distinction is that whereas progress on water and sanitation is often inhibited by a tendency to turn to outdated models of improvement, progress on adaptation to climate change is inhibited by the lack of models to turn...

information and communication technology (ict) has transformed how we live our lives and the way we interact in different contexts. benefits of ict and its upcoming efficiencies (i.e. energy efficiency) are becoming the heart of many public services’ reforms which have influenced the time, distance and space concepts. at present, not only there is a lack of clarity about what high-quality ictba...

spain has had so many evolutions in its urban planning system and it is one of the countries with regional system. regarding to its successful experience in this issue, this research tries to look over this system. in this respect, we will introduce the general characteristic of this country and will review urban system in its different levels. at the end, we will point to new urban acts and ac...

This research simulates the urban growth and therefore the landscape change of a mountain city of Chongqing, China through a Cellular Automata (CA) based model of SLEUTH. The fundamental data were four Landsat TM images of 1978, 1988, 1993, and 2001 which were utilized for generating maps of land use, road networks, and urbanized area. Three alternative development scenarios, including business...

experiences from urban development plans and assessments of their concrete and tangible results in the past decades indicate lack of adequate success of our urbanization system to responding needs of our citizens. this has resulted in need to find a fundamental solution to transforming the centralized system into decentralized. recent changes in regard to a change of approach from master plan t...

rational knowledge-claims, consisting of theoretical propositions expressing a judgment about complex urban problems, are not new. the audiences, i.e. the public whose lives are affected by such claims, have begun to question the claims of rationality in urban planning. in response, each urban planner, believing in a particular theory or point of reference, endeavors to challenge competing theo...