Journal of Urban Research and Planning
Year:2014 | Volume:4 | Issue:15|Papers Count:7

Today, urban growth has been so rapid that the appropriate measures urban neglected largely special attention to the quality of input and output Entering principles as one of the main urban structural and landscape structures, in spite of their aesthetic, applied and structural importance, have done, from one aspect through inharmonious and incompatible applications, and on the other hand through low-quality construction without planned design in the suburbs of these urban centers, inharmonious and mixed structures, which from visual perspective, are very mingled. So it is observed that Zabol's main entrances are not organized, unsuitable distribution of applications, the lack of continuity in constructions, the lack of supplying centers, existence of obtrusive urban occupations, the lack of plant covering and etc are among main entrance's problems. Research methodology is analytic-descriptive method, based on laboratory-statistics results and field studies. Obtained results show that based on compatibility index of all land applications, 24 percent of them is incompatible in ZABOL-ZAHEDAN entrance. Herbal cover conditions (urban green space) also are too weak and without planning. In regard to urban informative signs, specially commercial and service providing ones, due to variety and abundance, get into visual confusions. In regard to facade of the adjacent buildings at ZABOL-ZAHEDAN entrance, 62.4 percent of units are incomplete or without any facade. At the end of research, procedures and suggestions are presented for planning entrances' view and also for organizing obtrusive occupations in Zabol City.

Motels are temporary residential units which are usually out of towns and unfortunately, have received less attention in Iran. Because most passengers in Iran travel with personal vehicles, Construction and development of Motels in transport linksespecially transport links in tourism hub will bring tourism development. Present study is an attempt to locate Motels in Isfahan-Shiraz axis and to examine their role in tourism development. Because Shiraz and Isfahan are historical cities and are among the major tourist hub of Iran, the expansion of in restructure especially Motels can have an important impact on tourism development. Iranian tourists also often use theca (especiallypersonal cars) to travel so existence of places to stay on the road that have adequate security and provide services for passengers, will be necessary. The methodology of this research is analytical, documented and survey and the data collected from library and field studies.The field data were collected through questionnaire and visiting the site. The sample size was determined based on Cochran.

Urban sprawl and scattered development are the most conspicuous features of the majority of the cities in western Iran. Urban sprawl in Iran in the recent years may have emanated from a number of significant contributing factors, such as natural population growth, migration of rural population to urban areas, urban centralization and activity, housing needs, and residential housing speculation. Among the adverse consequences of urban sprawl and scattered development are deterioration of farmlands and orchards in rural regions and suburban areas and the destruction of natural city landscapes. The purpose of the present research project is to randomly investigate the principal factors contributing to urban sprawl in the city of Boroujerd and to assess the potentials for urban development of the city by using various approaches-particularly the smart growth approach. The research was conducted mainly using the descriptive-analytical method of the applied functional type, drawing mostly upon library sources and occasionally upon field studies. This research project initially verifies the conditions of urban sprawl and scattered development in the city of Boroujerd by drawing upon official data, statistics, and documents pertaining to urban development as well as by using applied Shannon Entropy and Heldren models, and quarter distribution. Subsequently, after determining the indices for urban development, the project proceeds to investigate the potentials for infill development in dual-purpose areas in the city of Boroujerd. Based on the results of the research and the availability of 223 hectares of grey field, 94 hectares of brown field, and 479 hectares of worn-out land in Boroujerd, this research project has determined that the city has considerable potentials for infill development and is perfectly capable of preventing urban sprawl and horizontal growth.

Today urban planning, urban development is the foundation, that cannot be ignored the role of climatic factors and elements. Due to the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization in recent decades, there are considerable changes in meteorological and land surface parameters in large cities. Given today’s climate researchers have failed due to insufficient information as it should are studied on the effects of climate on urban and or climate impacts on urban development, Therefore, the present study attempted to investigate these interactions in order to will be reviewed evaluated of the temperature trend and its relationship to urban development the case of the Shiraz city. The purpose were used of the statistics the minimum temperature, maximum temperature, mean temperature, absolute minimum and absolute maximum temperature synoptic station in Shiraz during the period 1350-1389 in annual scale. The homogeneous test data by Chi-Square and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests and normal measurement data by Ncss and Minitab software for the colculation of trend was used the t test, Von Neumann, s and Autocorrelation function parameteric tests. Finally obtained the parameters trend type by the least squares method. The results indicate that the parameter of the minimum temperature, maximum temperature, average temperature and the mean absolute temperature increases tend and has without trend the parameter absolute maximum temperature. The growth rate was concurrent with the development of urbanization and industrialization, in Shiraz and seems the connection between the development of urbanization and industrialization increase in temperature. The significance of this trend, particularly at a minimum temperature, due to the effects of urban development and land use change is followed an environmental impact, local climate change and land rule. The increase is necessary to avoid the consequences of such trends urban planners develop the necessary to operate arrangements in order to cope with the increased heat and risk management.

In religious cities specially in Mashhad, due to this city is renowned as spiritual capital of Iran, we expect that public furniture used in urban space of Mashhad reinforce and support its holy atmosphere and ziarat culture, but there are some evidence which prove contrary to this claim. In this paper we try to evaluate the massage of urban furniture of "Welcome Spring" plan based on analytical model and library researches. The results of this research shows in "Welcome Spring" plan in Mashhad there are some weaknesses points which are: "improper location of urban furniture, particularly the entries of city", "Using elements with complex concepts", "magnification of the transmission of some messages", "some element with unknown source noted", "lack of specific messages and values in some elements of large scale", "application of multiple elements, regardless of the culture and identity of Mashhad", "location of element with the reference of notification folklore-traditional ritual at low points of traffic" and "use of raw ideas in design of some elements, especially elements with large scale" that should be considered. Ultimately, policy making by urban managers in Mashhad metropolitan should consider semantic issues and massages of Urban Public Furniture given to people and zaer in their decisions intentionally or unintentionally, the mental image of holy Mashhad can be changes the religious image of Mashhad would be replaced with tourist image in near future.

Nowadays, with the wide spread of urbanization and social insecurity in the cities, the study of security issues, and factors that affect strengthen security in urban planning is essential and it is more sensitive in border cities. Maintain and expand border areas security concerns long perennial borders the countries that are neighbors. In this paper we introduce‫ on the sustainable development of border areas as the key strategy to maintain and expand border security, border areas of study. This study used a descriptive and analytical procedures applied from which information through library resources, Internet resources, and perceptions of documents collected in this research field, the theory of sustainable development in the border areas, with select the border city of Marivan as a case study, the effect of boundary spatial structure of the region, where it should be. Finally, the conclusion is derived that brings security to sustainable development security through sustainable development and distribution facilities in accordance ‫an appropriate model for sustainable development is not yet. With regard to the planning system, which is part of this type of program properties border areas note?

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric method in operations research and economics for the estimation of production frontiers. After the brief review of existing literature, as well as the principle of dead, this article evaluates the efficiency of 36 sectors of Mashhad Municipalities via the approach of DEA approach in constant return to scale and input-oriented and output- oriented models. Input and output data on the base of current information in municipal has got from sectors managers. The result shows that in both of oriented, 55 percent of sectors are efficient and more frequencies of them for pear group are:DMU14 and DMU20: 13 timesDMU23 and DMU31: 8 times.