URBAN-REGIONAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH (UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN)
Year:2011 | Volume:3 | Issue:9|Papers Count:8

Introduction The issue of citizenship and how citizens make sense of the concept is increasingly the subject of social research. Citizenship as a multi dimensional concept, offers the capacity for an exploration of the dynamics of social division to take in a number of important dimensions (class, gender, race, disability, age and so on) when assessing both the levels and causes of inequality within a society. This research tries to survey women’s awareness about citizenship rights and the effective factors on it.

Introduction Tectonic features of the Iran, has raised the earthquake as one of the most destructive causes of destruction of human life. Historical review shows that large areas of Iran have been suffered by natural disasters and caused heavy human and financial loss. Because of this important issue it is needed to reduce earthquake vulnerability. The city of Tehran as one of the largest and most important cities, due to the geographic location of this city on several active faults and historical records of these faults activities can be said to face a massive earthquake in near future, so the 9th district of Tehran municipality, is selected as the study area. In this research TOPSIS Fuzzy model is used to assess and analyze vulnerabilities in the study area, considering different earthquake intensities.

Introduction The rural areas are considered as limited geographical regions developed over time from the impacts of human activities on the environment, in one hand, and the effects of external forces on the regions on the other. The rural economy plays an essential role in the location, residence survival, production of wealth, and employment creation. Agricultural activities are as initial foundations of economics in rural areas but today it is essential to pay more attention to non-agricultural activities and seek to find new ways of subsistence based on the rural intrinsic sources. Therefore, since the World War II many developing countries have taken industrialization and establishment of industries in rural areas as industrial towns into account, in order to achieve the social and economic development especially in these areas.

Introduction Mashhad as the second religious metropolis in the world and as the country‘s spiritual capital, is encountered with cost and benefit challenges towards sustainable tourism development. If the present condition continues, all the weaknesses and threats of Mashhad tourism system, will profoundly affect its abilities towards tourism sustainable development in long-term, while the city has competitive advantages in tourism development. So optimum exploitation of its all tourism abilities in a long- term, clear and sustainable framework, can play a noticeable role towards national and regional development goals. According to situation of Mashhad in country’s tourism and urban system and its numerous problems, this research aimed To assess the tourism development model of Mashhad metropolitan area and offering proper strategies.

Introduction Internal migration between regions is an important social process in many countries which reflects the reaction of people against the economic, social and regional inequalities in many aspects of the life. Intense migration started approximately 300 years ago in European societies; however, in developing countries it has been begun since 1960 (Lucas, 1381: 156-163).The dominant form of migrations in developing nations in past years has mainly been rural -urban which has led to the rapid expansion of cities. The outcome has mainly been problems such as deprived rural areas, over crowded cities, poor social services, increasing crimes, low quality of environment, lack of sanitation and shortage of safe drinking water, (Sheikhi, 1380, 107).As one of the important social issues in Iran, migration and its consequences have posed serious challenges for administrative managers during the recent decades.The main objective of this study is to investigate the characteristics of migration in West Azarbaijan Province (WAP) of Iran. The research method is mainly descriptive and several statistical measures have been used to analyze the data. Most data employed in the study comes from official records. In addition to the analysis of net migration over the last three decades, the major population links of the WAP with other provinces as well as the underlying factors of urban and rural migrations have been discussed.

Introduction Isfahan due to inappropriate location of industrial centers, has excessive air pollution. According to EPA announcement, Isfahan is the second pollution city after Tehran. Isfahan had gardens and green spaces in the east and in the Safavid period, they paid more attention to the importance of green space and its role in the beautiful city and people health than any other period (Mojtahedi, 1379: 4). But today with creation of industrial complexes and lack of proper planning, it not only has its past glory and beauty but also faces severe environmental pollution but.Unfortunately, in recent years, Isfahan, with all these advantages is developing thoroughfares, streets and highways in accordance with a outomobile oriented function and has paid less attention to pedestrian places, bike paths and green rouds.Of course, Isfahan urban management efforts in promoting cycling shoud not be avoided because, in recent years, promoting cycling in Isfahan has been considered seriously to the extent of increasing bike stops three times as much as now. This article attempts to describe the situation and position of the bicycle transportation system in Isfahan using statistical methods and questionnaire.

Introduction Tourism plays a growing role in developing countries and is accounted as a way of government deficit reduction, gaining foreign exchange and employment increment. In addition it is viewed as a channel of getting away from single product economies. In fact, an industry with multi dimension impacts is looked. Really, tourism is one of the most profitable activities such that many countries have invested on it. This industry is labor intensive and is one of the employment generation effective ways. Tourism is beyond an economic and industrial activity but what may surcharge its influence is the lack of fundamental possibilities providing tourists welfare in clouding scarce of suitable staying places.Bandar Turkman as an attractive site for tourists is faced with scarce suit staying palaces.Thus this study intended to estimate travel demand function of this city to assign the importance of paying attention to this matter. Therefore the demand function was estimated by travel cost method.