JOURNAL OF THE STUDIES OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PLANNING (JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL LANDSCAPE)
Year:2017 | Volume:12 | Issue:1 (38)|Papers Count:16

Introduction: Agriculture in developed countries is in line with other sections in moving towards economic growth and development. In developing countries, however, the life survival of an increasing number of people depends on agriculture and this number is on fast increase, and there are few job opportunities out of this section. …

Introduction: The entrance of automobile in urban spaces after the Industrial Revolution led to the reduction of the space walk. The passengers gradually missed their location. The walkability, because of having important role in operational, skeletal, and particularly social and cultural aspects, is the most important urban space for shopping and entertainment centers. …

Introduction: Ecological capability assessment is a process that attempts to offer sustainable development by regulating the interaction of man and nature. In fact, it is an effective step towards formulating a sustainable plan because by identifying and evaluating ecological features of an area, it is possible to draft development plans that are in harmony with the nature. ...

Introduction: Culture is a concept of polysemy and in transitions that assures a specific status for a nation or society. In fact, culture is a collection of systematic costumes and values among a group of individuals that characterizes economic activities as well. It circulates through cultural development, which is a process with changes in cognition, perception, and inclinations creating a particular character that its beliefs, capabilities, and behaviors provide it with developments. …

Introduction: In the current situation of our country, due to the large number of agricultural parcels and problem in agricultural development, the land consolidation project is secure and necessary. When land consolidation may be in order to achieve sustainable development at the national level and be integrated rural development that action taken as a systematic approach and process planning studies and decision. …

Introduction: Providing maximum economic and social welfare for people is one of the main goals of each economic, political and social system in the world. This means healthy people and healthy city which results in a healthy and dynamic society. Urbanization is one of the most important factors affecting individual and social health of the citizens. …

Introduction: Information and communication Technology refer to information and communication systems for the processing, storage, transmission and processing of digital files that are in use. These are files which can contain text, picture and sound, still and moving. Individuals, groups and organizations have different perceptions about the use of new technologies in improving human performance and quality of life. In developed countries, information and communication technology revolution has affected all living spaces and lead to huge benefits for individuals. …

Introduction: Neighborhood is second social environment after family In Iranian Islamic culture. Neighborhood attachment can motivate engagement in local affairs; it also can lead to high level of perceived security, and improvement of other wellbeing factors among its inhabitants. Therefore, many studies have been trying to find ways to facilitate positive relations between person and his living place. …

Introduction: Increasing poverty and destruction of resources are the most important economic and cultural challenges in developing countries. This issue is more complicated in rural areas, because dominant trend of economic growth in developing economies is continuation and intensification of rural poverty. …

Introduction: With the development of societies, attention of designers to spaces has increased and several in-depth studies have been conducted on the impact of space on human perception. In Iran, mmechanisms to create new towns, as in many other countries in the world has changed and evolved over time. …

Introduction: Return migration is a process of migration from village to city and relatively long inhabitancy there and then returns to birthplace. Rural attraction factors (land and housing cheapness, inherited land, clean air, lack of urban problems) and repulsion factors (expensive land and housing, psychological pressure, racism, air pollution) and the development of transportation network result in mobility in the form of return migration (Afrakhteh et.al 2017: 86). Return migration has been less studied in scientific society in Iran. …

Introduction: Iran in the distant past especially after the land reform (after ages 1962) has been facing with the rural spaces challenging in many aspects and its rural areas in spite of natural and geographical limitations (topography, dispersion, water resources, climate problems and hazards) constantly has changed caused by human action including the increasing dependence of rural areas on cities. …