JOURNAL OF THE STUDIES OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PLANNING (JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL LANDSCAPE)
Year:2019 | Volume:14 | Issue:2 (47) |Papers Count:19

Introduction The concept of sense of security is indicator of quality of life in cities. A sense of security is result of direct and indirect experiences of individuals and the situations surrounding environment. So in assessing people's sense of security, physical environment and social conditions have equal importance. Urban spaces are context of living and activities of citizens. So it is necessary to provide safe, healthy, stable and attractive environment, due to features of people. One of the problems that almost all modern cities, unlike traditional cities are facing is lack of security of its citizens. So according to what was said, in this study the second generation CPTED is used to assess sense of security in the Islamic context. Because this model use social aspects as key elements of security and don’ t notice just to physical aspects. In fact, this generation of CPTED supports activities. In other words, if urban physical design can create defensible space, it should supports activities. This supporting is provided by the second generation CPTED design principles. Nearly 3000 hectares of Yazd area is located in historical texture. Fahadan is one major center of theses textures. This area nearly has seven thousand people. In terms of socialeconomic roles of this region it can be noted that the majority of market places of historical textures are concentrated in this neighborhood. This caused that the functional radius of the neighborhood is being beyond the historical context...

Introduction Today, the tourism industry as a dynamic and inclusive system embraces all the pillars of a global community. Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and affiliated with a large part of the global economy, a phenomenon that is characterized by high mobility in economic, political, Has a social and environmental impact that has an impact on the economic, social and environmental factors, resulting in various effects and consequences. From the issues and problems of the tourism sector in Iran, the position of the tourism sector in the country's planning system, planning and management weakness, lack trained program for tourism, weakness in infrastructure and circulation services. The study area of this research is the city of Soyma Sara. This city, having natural and human potential, can become one of the tourism poles and one of the major tourist destinations. The present paper is an explanation and ranking of effective indicators for sustainable tourism development. The research methodology is descriptive-analytical, library studies and questionnaire, and it is based on the assumption that what indicators are effective in the development of tourism in the city. The results show this region is one of the most beautiful and most talented areas in the province. It is one of the tourist hubs. Considering the capabilities and potential of the study area with the development of infrastructure and tourism services, quantitative and qualitative tourism can be taken in the light of developments Tourism in this area...

Introduction Recognizing successful economic systems in the world and going toward the economic advancement is of great significance to many countries. Using local economic patterns is one of the processes that many governments adopt to utilize available facilities so as to move towards their economic development goals. Creating an efficient environment in accordance with economic development can be highly effective in political interest for many governments of many countries. The area for economic activities encompasses both aspects residents’ lives including urban spaces and rural ones. As a matter of fact both aspects of life can be considered as golden opportunities to increase economic ability. So far, numerous scholars have conducted diverse studies, concerning various types of economic opportunities. In the last decade of twentieth century, tourism experienced drastic changes. Needless to say that, special attention has been turned to the development of rural tourism. Without considering various aspects, economic development of countries can be difficult. Rural economy encompasses part of countries’ economy, and considering the number of employed residents in rural areas, it has had a great impact on development rate of countries. Recognizing economic attributes and the adopted tools in the process of achieving a desired level of advancement is of great significance. Rural tourism has been recognized as one of the effective elements in rural economic development and a powerful intensifier in villagers’ life prosperity. Considering the importance of rural tourism in the economy trend in villages, in this study the researcher aims to analyze its effect in rural entrepreneurship...

Introduction Sustainable development in different countries is the common goal of many of urban development policies. From the perspective of sustainable development, land and space is not the only element to supply the city economical and physical needs but it is the mainstream of all the citizens’ activities and necessary tools to fulfill the wishes and human aspirations. Therefore, the use of city lands has the major role in supply the needs of citizens, environmental quality, citizen’ s health and welfare, urban beauty and ultimately city sustainable development. Urban sustainable development can’ t be achieved as long as there is special contrast between neighborhoods and districts regarding the services, therefor awareness of the level of inequality for fair allocation of resources and utilities is the first step towards necessary land use planning. For this purpose, this study with using quantitative models evaluates the distribution of services land use among twelve’ s neighborhoods of city’ s old texture of Minab...

Introduction The purpose of this paper is the investigating the relationship between specific, endogenous, compatible, suitable and adaptive activity to the natural environment, namely, the production of damask rose (and other medicinal plants) and extracting rosewater (and other essential oils) via traditional techniques on the one hand, and the economic, social, physical and ecological development of settlements of Kashan (Iran) on the other. The cultivation of damask rose and the traditional distillation of other medicinal herbs for the provision of various herbal medicines and veterinary medicines, seasonings and spices, and cosmetics & perfumes in the local, indigenous and small conversion and complementary industries is important in some aspects including the treatment and prevention of diseases, marketing and economic development, job creation and utilization of comparative advantages, revitalization and development of indigenous knowledge, assistance to sustainable development, development of ecotourism and farm tourism, diversification of employment, attention to indigenous knowledge and industries in settlements of Kashan...

Introduction Due to the country’ s geographical and geological conditions, attention to the management of natural disasters and crises arising from that has been considered by planners as the country development plans since early 1991. Therefore, after disaster activities, especially reconstruction of destroyed settlements is the most important step of disaster management in recovery and recycling of these communities. It is important to choose the appropriate reconstruction policy. Review of available resources on the adoption methods of rebuild rural settlements affected by natural disasters, particularly earthquakes in different countries shows that different approaches such as aggregation and integration, relocation and In-Situ policy have been considered by planners, which are connected to the issues such as the extent of damage and the location of the village. In addition, selecting any reconstruction methods depends on environmental conditions and the vulnerability of the region, the cost of reconstruction, willingness and participation of residents and other numerous factors. The purpose of this study is comparative evaluation of the reconstructing methods of villages which affected by the earthquake disaster in June 1990 Manjil-Roudbar earthquake and its effect on rural vitality indicators (comfort and convenience of residents, environment health, safety and security of residents, access to public infrastructure and services, public participation and sense of aesthetics). Therefore, present study tries to answer these questions: 1. whether adopting different ways in the reconstruction of the villages affected by the earthquake, could make a significant difference in the vitality of settlements villages? 2. Was any significant difference observed in the indices of vitality in studied villages?...

Introduction Building industry has a great share in environmental pollution and energy consumption. Dismantling as a method for sustainable design and development that spotlights issues such as energy and environment is contemplated by the construction industry and designers. Considering the useful lifespan of a building, its components and materials, and the possibility of installing and dismantling these components in the end, their reuse and recycling result in saving of energy and raw materials; and reduces damage caused to the environment by wastes from building dismantling. The vernacular architecture of some areas provides the possibility to separate its components and materials. Therefore, these architectural practices can be studied to evaluate their compliance and compatibility with the principles of deconstruction. Guilan's vernacular rural architecture has unique properties regarding structures and forms; the building and its components are enabled for dismantling due to the techniques which were implemented, types of joints and materials. The purpose of this research is to define dismantling, its principles, objectives and benefits; and studying Guilan's vernacular rural architecture and its constituent structures and their conformity with dismantling method...

Introduction Land use change is one of the vivid results of human impacts on environment, thus analysis of land use change is counted as crucial topic in the ecosystem researches (Dong etal, 2008). Gathering information of the land use pattern and its changes during a long period is of the basic preconditions in order to take advantage of land in a proper way (Karimi and Bayram Komaki, 2013). During the last decades human related land use changes are known as a process that stem from the global environmental changes. In spite of global importance of land use planning and management in touristic areas, such a crucial issue has been neglected in Iran. Regarding to importance of the research on the tourism and agriculture interactions, this paper aims to investigate on the relationship of tourism and agriculture in the area of Kelardasht as a case study of the northern parts of Iran. The case study area has experienced rapid development of second homes and drastic land use changes, thus land management system in the area has faced to deep challenges...

Introduction Iran rural contemporary history has shown that the rural community has been faced with rapid changes. The consequences of these rapid changes have been emerging new forms of social control over the rural community. In rural social control, rural management problem arises. In fact, rural management is the process of organizing, directing rural community and environment through the formation of organizations and institutions, and moreover, for Taleb (2014), rural management is the science of "combining and adjusting various natural, human and economic factors in the rural community. Totally, Iran by having more than 65, 000 villages close to 85 percent of the country's biological and natural resources and reservoirs, is among the countries that in order to achieve rural development and then urban development and national development require a systematic and robust management system in villages. For this reason, from the past various management systems have been implemented in the range of the country villages. Also, rural management system in Iran in the past years has been changed in terms of social structures and the lack of efficient and correct management in villages in all periods-especially since 40s-and even recent decades, caused many problems for the villagers. Although after the victory of Iran Islamic Revolution organizations such as village Islamic Councils, Assistance House, rural development office and like them were formed in villages, but due to the lack of necessary fields and related executive organizations much success has not been achieved. Considering the importance of the social capacity building to improve the management of rural development. Iran should rely on the knowledge-based management, rural development and for the realization of the knowledge based platforms provide in villages...

Introduction Strategic is a planning process that led to the production of public and private productivity initiatives that seek cooperation and synergy for the development of the city. Program in Iran, which is provided in the form of comprehensive and detailed plans are put forward, such as more physical, static and traditional, and in the development of social, economic and management are not included, Programs meet the current needs of cities are not as inflexible in practice, long-term and in the end have little ability to execute, and achieve the goals envisaged in them is negligible. City kazeroon due to the expansion during recent decades as the city center kazeroon is now faced with problems that comprehensive plans have been unable to fix them. So, We have to solve the problems of the city kazeroon, by the urban development strategy or strategic planning using. Today cities grow up the staggering and have proposed themselves as the first mankind settlement. This process is related to recent centuries and especially after the industrial revolution that physical and urban development caused multiple problems. In response to these problems Several initiatives were implemented that maybe most important of them were Conductor and comprehensive plans, but for various reasons the project failed and Today in developed countries are completely obsolete. Comprehensive and detailed plan was causing inefficiency in the world until urban planning moved toward the other approaches like systematic planning will show the feature highly in response to the problems of urban planning to enter the field of urban development and urbanism. In a world that is rapidly increasing urbanization the role of cities as drivers of economic growth is more important. This matter in less-developed countries that are facing an unprecedented increase in the rate of urbanization, necessary to make informed decisions and implement new approaches to urban development planning is inevitable. City development strategy is a tool that can help cities to utilize urbanization opportunities and enable the city to create more opportunities by development of planning institutions. Thus, a strategic perspective on investment and growth in order to take advantage of opportunities for cities is crucial...

Introduction Housing is the main element of individuals' sociability to the world and it is full of symbolic values or signs of dignity for urban life and the most important urban quality-quantity use that its quality indicates social-economic conditions of the city and so many realities of the society. Planning for housing is mainly a social issue rather an economical one. The role of government on housing is primarily social or the purpose is providing social housing for citizens. In the developing countries, unemployment issues, low income, lack of purchasing power, and relatively prevalent poverty are government's duty because the purpose is the excellence of the society and economy is just an instrument for eliminating the need for house for citizens during the trend toward their growth and excellence. One of the biggest plans for housing in Iran is 'Mehr' housing. The plan called 'Mehr' housing has developed mainly to provide affordable houses for low-income group 'Mehr' housing on a national scale resides low-income rank in governmental lands and often at the skirt of the city in the form of repeated complexes or similar forms at the certain levels of infrastructure. These boring buildings as a low-income region and a residence for the poor causes segregation and creating a residential area (with low income) across the city that often its residents are placed at the level close to each other culturally, socially and in terms of subsistence and it prevents the residents from having the chance of creating a healthy competition (due to the lack of variation in social structure)...

Introduction Today, the tourism industry has been the focus of many countries as an economic sector stimulating the development of a destination. On the other hand, in recent years, with the unilateral boycotts of the Western countries against our country, which has made oil exports difficult, there is more to come to find a replacement for oil. But the experience of recent years in the management of the country's tourism industry, according to international associations, has shown that the only desire to lead the development of this industry is not. Especially in times when the international tourism market is highly competitive and countless worldwide destinations are struggling to gain part of this market. The same competitiveness of the tourism market has made the topic of competitiveness more attractive to tourists. One of the issues that has been discussed a lot is the issue of tourism competitiveness. At present, competitiveness is a central issue in the world and is considered as a means to achieve favorable economic growth and sustainable development. But the reason for increasing attention to the issue of competitiveness in the tourism and other businesses is that the competitiveness index can represent many other important indicators...

Introduction One of the characteristics of the settlement system in developing countries is intense focus and spatial imbalance, which in some cases is due to the effects of polar growth policies. Create balance and harmony in rural public structures and systems, is one of the best examples of development. This article aims to combine statistical methods such as factor analysis to the level of development in rural areas and new methods of spatial statistics Spatial pattern recognition for the distribution of development in space and modeling spatial relationships will be the role of employment for rural women in development That kind of link development and performance it can portray the role of rural women...

Introduction Tourism development strengthens the foundations of economic impact, through employment creation, income generation, exchange technology and strengthen social infrastructure of communities. Recently, the development of tourism in developing countries is widely accepted in the government's agenda. Meanwhile, many policymaker’ s tourism development as a key element of sustainable development as well. Therefore, achieving the Tourism Development requires an appropriate organizational structure, planning and human resource training, rules and regulations to attract tourism and investment. Iran is one of the ten countries of the world in terms attractions (culture and civilization) and tourism among the first five countries in the world in terms of diversity of the natural environment and among the first three countries in terms of the variety of handicrafts. Thus, investment in tourism infrastructure and use of the potential of cultural and natural Iran to attract tourists, an appropriate way, development. One of the important issues in the field of investment and resource allocation, management is correct. The main task management, allocation of scarce resources to the highest return opportunities followed. Rural areas Guilan due to the presence of natural attractions, including the sea, coast, plains, foothills, mountains, rivers, water and forests, as well as historical attractions and culture as a central pillar of tourism in Iran known. Many are capable of attracting domestic and foreign tourists. Despite the attractions mentioned in many areas of the province, has led to many tourist places in Guilan purpose exist. One of the most important issues facing managers in the field of tourism development puts tourism. The leveling of tourist destinations to prioritize investments and the level of services required at each location. To public and private investment projects carried out in places. That be enough to attract tourists through the infrastructure have been provided. Therefore, research in the field of rural tourism grading and ranking of sites in Guilan, to avoid wasting money and losing time is necessary...

Introduction Human beings have always been faced with various kinds of injuries, wars and invasions and disasters, and have caused many financial and financial losses. Cities as centers for the emergence and development of science and civilization have been at the center of these injuries and assaults. Today, with the use of comprehensive crisis management programs and the implementation of previously inactive passive applications, the severity of the damage and damage caused by such risks can be greatly reduced. One of the most important of these measures is the use of passive defense principles to reduce. To this end, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the vulnerability of Gomishan city during crisis with the passive defense approach. For this purpose, descriptive-analytical method and field survey, and then zoning and overlapping of information layers in GIS spatial analysis software have been used...