JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN SPACE DEVELOPMENT
Year:2016 | Volume:3 | Issue:1 (4)|Papers Count:11

1. Introduction: After industrial revolution, complex economic and technical developments led to wide changes in the size of cities, the proportion of the population in urban areas, and the growth rate of urbanization (Johnson, 1998)...

1. Introduction: City is a living creature formed through the interaction of different forces in unique substantiality. One of the main aspects of each city is its landscape; urban landscape is the experience of people as the members of society. Landscape is an objective and subjective phenomenon that is the part of peoples’ nature in a city...

1. Introduction: Considering the rapid growth of the world population, it is predicted that in the future the majority of this vast population will be concentrated in cities, particularly cities of developing countries. According to United Nations’ prediction in 2000, the world population will surpass 2.06 billion by 2030...

1. Introduction: Today the role and the importance of open and green spaces are significantly increasing in the environment and the quality of building complex. Therefore, open and green spaces are considered as intrinsic, parts of land use planning decision in most countries...

1. Introduction: Urbanization is a process which leads to the growth of cities and urban changes due to industrialization and economic development. In other words, urbanization is an inevitable and demographic force and movement which should not be neglected...

1. Introduction: The widespread use of the Internet in urban communities has changed the geographical concentration of services and has led to the emergence of urban electronic services...

1. Introduction: Currently the study of urban exhausted tissues is one of the major issues in urban policies as well as the contemporary urban planning in Iran. Lack of attention to exhausted tissues results in the growth of these tissues and the remove of local residents from these areas over time...

1. Introduction: Spatial segregation in Tabriz metropolitan physically indicates some poor infrastructure indexes such as lack of arterial transportation networks, lack of water supply and sewage networks, inadequate housing, increasing and inhumane density, lack of service per capita, but from a social and cultural perspective, it is the vehicle of marginal identity that in interacting with separated physical space, has created incommensurability of context and margin in Tabriz metropolitan and most of Iran's metropolitans...

1. Introduction: Quality of life is not a novel concept and denotes various meanings in varied domains. Generally, quality of life can be measured using objective and subjective indicators in various aspects. These aspects can subsume such fields as nutritional, educational, hygiene, security and leisure time...

1. Introduction: Human development is defined as a process for increasing people's options and level of life welfare. United Nations as the most authoritative organization believes that the target of development or various economic, social, and political indices is human...

1. Introduction: High traffic volume is one of the most common problems of urban transportation in metropolises. The increase in the number of vehicles in case of not having necessary predictions also enhances the demand for fueling in places where mostly are unable to respond to such needs...