India’s cities are the engines of her economic growth. To provide an environment conducive to the buzz of economic activity that urban India must engage in, improvement of physical infrastructure has become a major objective of the planners. Energy is a vital component of urban infrastructure. Be it water supply, sewerage network, transportation, construction, manufacturing, information and com...

IN FR A STR U C TU R E The condition of the nation’s infrastructure has been the subject of several major studies in recent years. As could be expected, Canada has similar problems concerning the condition of the infrastructure. Needs studies undertaken from the late 1970s to the present suggest four major conclusions: the nation’s infrastructure has been maintained unevenly; many public facili...

in this article, the factors considered in the evaluating performance of urban management in ardabil are classified in two axes: 1. enabling and supporting entrepreneurs (with 10 components) and 2. providing the appropriate environment for entrepreneurs (with 6 components) and their importance are determined using the technique of multiple comparisons. the statistical population in this study a...

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...

today, we see that despite the plans and decisions made about the historical fabric, the people are very faintly seen and conservation the historic fabric of urban is one of the main concerns management urban in the absence of efficient management and lack of attention to the needs of local people, the historical fabric urban is destroyed. in this article are examined ways other than physical m...

Today, we see that despite the plans and decisions made about the historical fabric, the people are very faintly seen and conservation the historic fabric of urban is one of the main concerns management urban In the absence of efficient management and lack of attention to the needs of local people, the historical Fabric Urban is destroyed. In this article are examined Ways other than physical m...

Integrated urban water management e a framework to understand, control, and optimize elements of the urban water infrastructure as an integrated system e is inherently complex. It becomes more complex and challenging, however, when public participation in management institutions is considered. This paper applies a systems perspective to explore institutional arrangements for participation. Our ...