GEOGRAPHICAL URBAN PLANNING RESEARCH
Year:2016 | Volume:4 | Issue:2|Papers Count:9

Introduction: Walking spaces is one of the most important urban public spaces in urban regions. Jane Jacobs considers the walkways as a public and main space and the most critical member of city. In recent decades, as a result of rapid movement towards the development of our country, Body cities have suffered from severe changes. The effect of these changes can affect the body in our cities. Our people are in need for required spaces for their activities and there is no framework for this activity in cities. Gradually, Cavalry move dominated urban spaces and streets, urban planning and design far from the walking human scale and the needs. As a result, the values and social and cultural attractions of urban spaces are reduced. Thus, in the past two decades, on urban dynamics has been more attention to the walking discussion and this led to attraction of the policies attention of the deal with unsustainable urban space...

Introduction: Sense of place is one of the vital concepts in promoting the quality of human environment. This concept finally leads to creation of a high quality environment because of its important role in initiating interactions among the people and urban environment. The sense of place is one of the important meanings in improving the urban environment and human qualities. The feeling that an important factor in the formation of the foundation is communication of users and the environment, the quality will be ultimately leads to the creation of environments. The aim of this study is to evaluate the physical and environmental factors in creation of a sense of place in the coastal city of Bushehr and to explore the relationships between these elements...

Introduction: Given that the land is the most important source in urban areas, it plays a key role in the success or failure of urban development projects. A significant factor in success of the plans for housing, infrastructures, equipment, and generally, favorable development of urban areas depends on timely and adequate access to the land and its competent management. Therefore, an optimal utilization of land to ensure economic efficiency, social justice, and environmental protection is urban sustainable development...

Introduction: The Saman City has experienced remarkable urban population growth due to its location in the vicinity of Zayandehrud River and also its tourism-agricultural function. The population growth was resulted from rural migration into the city and also natural population growth rate. The population growth caused many problems including shortage in quantity of urban houses, young population, difficulties in urban development plans, rurban structure, poor standardized urban structures and urban planning, economic weaknesses, and also many problems in quality of housing...

Introduction: Financial and credit institutes, especially banks, are assumed as the most important economic centers in the urban space. The significant role of these centers in offering services to the citizens in one hand, and the competition between these centers on the other hand reveal the necessity of investigations about the optimum place for their site selection (Rahnamaee et al., 2012: 48). In such studies, the amount and the way that the space would affect is of importance. Neglecting the effect of the space would lead to consequent errors in estimating, forecasting, and projecting (Soltani et al., 2000: 100). Multiplicity of effective variables in site selection in urban spaces has made the spatial decision makings complex, and modeling spatial relations necessary. Modeling these relations requires spatial methods due to the spatial nature of these factors...

Introduction: Nowadays, urbanization is growing increasingly in the world. This situation has affected life quality because of unbalanced growth in some regions. Population growth has many negative consequences such as discordant physical distribution of cities, extension of informal settlements, poverty, decreasing life standards, lack of service centers, and finally inequity in accessibility for services. These circumstances have been exacerbated in developing countries. One of sustainable development dimensions, as the main slogan of third millennium, is satisfaction of urban dwellers...

Introduction: For many scientists, space is an integral element of building material and structured social life. That means it can not be understood apart from society and social relations. Urban space is a fascinating topic containing the issues many scholars consider important to understand the relationship with social strategies, refining build, social, human, emotional quality of society, expression of the people life, political activity, healthy living city, and so on. The psychological, cultural, economic and physical environments are the strategic objectives of improving the quality of urban built environment and social strategies. But the concept and the process of creating urban space in various stages of history have the same meaning. In terms of the form and content of each stage of civilization it is always influenced by the spirit state of institutions, culture and dynamics of urbanization factors. Since most of the historical Iranian cities and traditional texture in this decade have had significant growth based on the principles of urban planning and urban design...