Human Geography Research
Year:2012 | Volume:- | Issue:79|Papers Count:12

Introduction: Urban sustainability is related to transformation of cities' Life in multi dimension and in due to compatibility with of time and place obligations and lack fulfillment of this compatibility is caused to obliterating of urban fabrics.Karaj, a new metropolis that did not have passed more than half century of its life, is one of the cities that has faced with to lack fulfillment of compatibility in its fabrics and it has near 551 hectare obliterated urban fabrics…

Introduction: Using modern technologies and giving variety of the economic activities in the rural regions, in addition to the effects of economic and physical aspects, always caused social changes. In some rural areas in Iran, economic activities at different levels, and with especial characters have been developed...

Introduction: The speed of urbanism development causes remarkable changes in the manner of land use. Revelation of these changes and preparation of appropriate maps on the land use and land cover become important. The use of land survey traditional methods is no longer appropriate due to time consumption and high costs and the application of new and effective methods is necessary in this regard…

Introduction: The selection of residence location in different countries is of high priority and significance for tourists. The selection of hotel includes a decision-making process and its results can empower the hotel managers and the tourism industry authorities to provide the tourists with more effective services for a better rate of satisfaction. For achieving the aforementioned goal, the identification of most influential indicators and factors in the international literature would be of high importance…

Introduction: Urbanization Development in Iran and in the world, has caused growing critical problems, and has made it necessary to have a review on urban planning in our country. Spatial distribution of cities and population and their control and guide have not made within a comprehensive national plan, and problems rising from quick urban growth have become complicated...

Introduction: Variety & diversity of viewpoints about urban structural–functional growth & development shows the complexity & expansion of the "city" category and the related issues which, in turn, indicates dynamic characteristics of the city. After a century of introducing organized and systematic theories in this filed, what worth surveying is the effective skeletal-social-economical outcome of these views on the development & structure of the cities…

Introduction: Small-scale firm's in rural areas play an extremely important role in the development of any country, and especially in developing countries. Our knowledge about rural individuals who begin the process of starting a new business and achieved their goal is weak…

Introduction: Artificial islands are developing in the Persian Gulf. The small states of Persian Gulf are trying to increase their territories, and they are trying to obtain the new territories for their trade, tourist and economical activities. At the same time, emerging new artificial islands and bold plans and prevailing of artificial islands by most advanced technologies are raising environmental issues, discussion and various questions on their environmental consequences and the commitments of states for conservation of environment, adjacent areas and the implications of destroying of natural ecosystems…

Introduction: The grouth of population in this country economic, and social problems show the necessary of suitable ways for it that job creating development. Cooperatives are a social and economic organization that with providing facilities could be establishes conditions and job opportunities…

Introduction: Urban land use planning is original core of urban planning system. The purpose of land use planning is for the spatial arrangement and desirable location order for land uses and urban activity, especially in cities that land uses have high combination and variety. To achieve this goal is requires understanding of condition space allocation and land distribution among urban land use that is possible through quality and quantitative evaluation methods. Analysis of compatibility and incompatibility between urban land uses is caused by positive and negative effects that adjacent and neighboring land uses which have on each other...

Introduction: In new approaches to rural and regional development, the surrounding areas of metropolitan cities is considered as a valuable capital which is dedicated to general and non-agricultural process to reach the goals of economic change. These areas are subject to significant rural-urban and return migration…

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to investigate sustainable development of Meybod and its housing planning. To do this, in the first step, considering existing statistics and survey research, the conditions of housing in Meybod were investigated and indentified with respect to dual quantitative and qualitative dicesion in the period between 1355-85…