it is not long time that residential complexes have been built in tehran. although during thistime, always influenced by some factors, configuration of the residential complexes has undergone fluctuations, rateof which has been very fast especially in recent decades considering the fundamental changes that have emerged in the housing debate. turning housing into an investment commodity. residen...

Urban parks and green spaces support a wide array of species and play an important role in long-term sustainability. This study analyzed the needs and attitudes of citizens towards urban parks and green spaces in order to provide information for setting the future direction of urban sustainability to maximize quality of life. A questionnaire survey was conducted to analyze the general character...

Interaction with digitally augmented urban spaces has increasingly relied upon Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) to achieve low-entry levels for the interaction and promote social encounters. In this paper, we discuss two interactive interventions we developed using NUIs for activating two very distinct urban spaces. Despite their highly different contexts and content strategies – one informationa...

A new concept of generalized absolute orders of magnitude qualitative spaces is introduced in this paper. The new structure makes it possible to define sets of qualitative labels of any cardinality, and is consistent with the classical structure of qualitative spaces of absolute orders of magnitude and with the classical interval algebra. In addition, the algebraic structure of these spaces ens...

urban space can be the most successful public arena in this century if employ the potentialsfor collective cooperation in creative ways in order to provide further services. the theory of creative city tries tostrengthen the qualities which enhance the image of a city for the citizens and create a dynamic city in terms of cultureand intercultural learning. therefore, the existence of generator,...

Based on previous work, we present our position statement encompassing two mutually complementary topics. The first topic pertains to the ontological grounding of quantitatively specified synthetic environment data. Here, the objective is to generate a qualitative spatial description of a quantitatively modelled (e.g., using primitive geometric features) synthetic environment. The basic aim her...

One of the fundamental problems in qualitative reasoning is to represent n-dimensional variable spaces, where states of a physical system are delimited by general hypersurfaces. It is impossible to handle such a situation by using conventional qualitative values, because they can take only the form of `lattices' of hyperplanes, each of which is orthogonal to a coordinate axis. We propose a fram...

decreasing qualitative aspects of residential environments is a real problem in recent public housing of kerman. this article is concentrated on surveying the impact of in-between spaces on residential environments quality (req), to evaluate different kinds of it and to determine interrelation of two main components: residents individual characteristics and characteristics of in-between spaces....

Qualitative Reasoning is characterised by making knowledge explicit in order to arrive at efficient reasoning techniques. It contrasts with often intractable quantitative models. Whereas quantitative models require computations on continuous spaces, qualitative models work on discrete spaces. A problem arises in discrete spaces concerning transitions between neighbouring qualitative concepts. A...