JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN SPACE DEVELOPMENT
Year:2017 | Volume:3 | Issue:2 (5)|Papers Count:11

1. Introduction: The important roles played by green space are the social, economic, cultural and environmental aspects of sustainable development. Thus, the quality and quantity of green space should be appropriate to the physical size of the city and the needs of society and also it should be developed according to the ecological conditions of the city and its future development trend. Therefore, development of urban green spaces results in urban ecological development and causes the promotion of urban life level and sustainable development of cities...

1. Introduction: From about the 1950s, extraordinary growth of cities and increase of urban population have led to excessive growth of settlements in cities (Muhallab Taha, 2001). This growth caused an unprecedented rise in land prices (Zaheri & Pour- Mohammadi, 2006). Land is an essential element in urban expansion and development (Vander Molen, 2002). Therefore, quality and quantity of land supply for development and expansion play an important role in the development of urban norms or anomalies (Hadily & Mehrzad, 2009)...

1. Introduction: At the beginning of the 3rd millennium, future studies (foresight) have been involved in the discovery, innovation and assessment of possible, probable and desirable futures as well as analyzing past procedures; such an approach is the objective evidence of what Gaston Berger has stated about the future, that is "see the future and disrupt its framework" (Godet, 2006, p.2). Stable planning based on scenario design with the foresight approach has been the major focus of future development planning in countries willing to achieve fundamental developments (Tadbir, 2007).

1. Introduction: With the growth and development of cities in the present era and also the extreme increase in urban issues, the continuation of these issues has caused jeopardized life in the cities. The theory of livability and sustainable development seeks to create a safe and healthy environment for human societies...

1. Introduction: The philosophy of creative city is that there is always a capacity much greater than it seems (Saeidi, 2011). Creative city is a new approach to urban planning that explains how to make people think, plan and act creatively in their cities and it demonstrates how we can make our cities livable, dynamic and sustainable through using the ideas and talents of people (Landry, 2012)...

1. Introduction: Security is one of the basic requirements for a city and a tenet for the emergence and persistence of urban comfort that get further importance, and are extended as urbanism and urban population density rises (Shaiye, 2007).

1. Introduction: One of the important issues in crisis management is providing settlement and help to the injured. In fact, the location of rescue and help centers should be designed in such a way that after the incident, there is the best chance of giving response to victims. In this regard, one of the important tasks of urban planners is to identify suitable locations for evacuation and settlement centers after an accident. Sabzevarn as an important city over the past few decades and located in Khorasan Razavi province has witnessed a rapid development.

1. Introduction: Nowadays, many cities’ older areas face different problems due to the population growth, urban sprawl and lack of new services to old city centers (Asadian & Sayahi, 2012), increasing the rate of urban deterioration as a living creature (Lotfi & Malekshahi, 2011), turning them into the residence of low-income immigrants (Khademi & Jokar, 2015)…

1. Introduction: Tourism development is considered as one of the most important guidelines of planning, through which the rapid growth of tourism industry in the world, planning for its development, and keeping up with the streams of planning for tourism development are necessitated. One of the goals of tourism is to provide comfort, security, and tranquility for the tourists without which the development of this industry or even its mere existence is rendered meaningless...

1. Introduction: The investigation of land cover and land use changes has been important since ancient eras and these changes mainly occur in two ways: the first types of these changes take place by the means of natural factors such as erosion, tectonic forces and floods and the second types take place by human factors...