GEOGRAPHICAL URBAN PLANNING RESEARCH
Year:2015 | Volume:3 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

IntroductionBy 2050, 70% of all population is expected to live in urban areas. Rapid urbanization will lead to the serious water scarcity and contradiction between water demand and supply as well. Also, increase in urban water demand due to population growth has turned to a major concern. Planning and water resource management must be supported by national executives since water resources are facing with the serious issues as a result of the threats of the population growth and climate change...

IntroductionThe process of land use change in urban areas has gone through an increasing trend since 1960s in Iran. This process has caused a type of unbalanced and unpredictable condition amongst the sustainable use of urban and environmental lands in urban areas of Iran. According to this procedure and its consequences, the land use patterns in the central parts of of Mazandaran (the northern province of Iran located on the coast of Caspian Sea and plays a key role in tourism and agricultural productions of Iran) including Sari City have experienced huge impacts and have gone through a massive fluctuations based on these changes (i. e., the process of urbanization as well as the increasing rate of population expansion and the increasing rate of migration both within and from the city)...

IntroductionCity as a set of human activities, natural environment, economy, and population is one of the important elements of the space. The population is distributed on the earth's surface to form urban and rural settlements. Populations of settlements have been distributed in various forms. Population distribution and the distribution of settlements in the habitable surface of the earth is not the same. A large part of the population is distributed in some certain areas of land. In the modern times, it is possible that space and spatial organization can solve the problems resulting from lack of proper distribution of population. One of the latest views in planning in the world is spatial and spatial structure...

IntroductionManagement of municipalities is based on the income and expenditure. The main sources of income are from the collection of duties and the cost of municipal services. Dependence of municipal and city revenues highly influenced by the periods of boom and recession has led municipalities to targeting, planning and implementation measures in different fields. Decision-making power is strongly influenced by the market and its agents act work; in some circumstances, not even able to pay its current expenses so that staff salaries are paid with a long delay. Economic problems arising from the lack of income in recent years as the recession in the price of land and reduced construction in urban areas as well as reduced liquidity is one of the hard periods for municipalities of Iran...

IntroductionOne of the characteristics of spatial organization in developing countries is unplanned and irregular changes in physical evolution. Most of the problems in planning systems and political– decision flows are emerging from unplanned irregular, spatial– physical approaches in human settlements. The land control is one of the important issues in the recent world that has accelerated rapid growth of urbanization. The factors such as urbanism and village aversion began in Europe in the half of 18th century following the industrial revolution. The factors have resulted in urbanization growth and extension of periphery areas. While this problem has partly been controlled in the European states, it is yet expanding in developing countries. In Iran, the urban limits was adequate for traditional urban land control and there have being existed a balance between environment and city...

Each year, there are many losses and damages as a result of natural disasters all over the world. Earthquake is one of the most sudden and unpredictable of these events. According to experts view, although we cannot prevent the occurrence of natural disasters, especially earthquakes, but we are able to take measures to reduce vulnerability and rapid relief and reconstruction. In fact, crisis is a sudden and unusual condition happening as a result of natural and unnatural in fortuity. Community readiness toward crisis is a cost effective method can decrease the damages. Shiraz City is located in Zagros folds with high tendency to earthquake. Thus, we did the analysis of different readiness in attitudinal – mental states of Shiraz communities in order to plan effectively for future crisis...

IntroductionWith an increase in urban population, urban environmental pollution, change of lifestyle, urbanization, getting away from nature and environment, we can observe the increase in the need for comforting and attractive social spaces such as sidewalks in cities day by day...