GEOGRAPHICAL URBAN PLANNING RESEARCH
Year:2017 | Volume:5 | Issue:3|Papers Count:7

Extended abstract:Introduction:Urban quality of life and promotion of citizen satisfaction about their living environment have attracted the attention of many urban planners and policy makers. The quality of life has to kinds of natural and human dimensions. The natural environment of a city in the form of physical setting, economic, cultural and social structures can affect the promotion of the quality of life. Attendance at religious places or membership in trade unions can be different in different climatic regions. Quality of life is the main goal prepared by planners. Issues and needs of citizens in the urban neighborhoods faced urban planners and managers with the challenges that mainly as a result of the quality of life. According to Aristotle Mkan-Hayy, cities are a base for residents to bring happiness and security. In fact, as long as mankind has achieved a kind of peace and relative security in thought and action, cities were formed. Over time with development of the cities, the realization of human ideals such as justice, public relations, law were gradually formed.

Extended abstract:Introduction:With increasing urbanization, urban services and its quality is concerned by urban managers, planners and citizens. In principle, the discussion of urban services was accompanied by expanding urbanization and apart from the nature of urban services; they are affected by economic, political, administrative and climatic conditions and structures. The quality of urban services has been one of the obvious indicators of urban management from the beginning. One of the difficulties and problems that developing countries are faced with is unbalanced and unequal development between and within the regions which mainly occurs due to national and centralized planning. Regional planning by keeping an eye on spatial view and optimal utilization of regional and local resources can create a hierarchical relationship among settlements at local, regional and national levels. It ultimately leads to a comprehensive and integrated development of the region.

Extended abstract:Introduction:Movement towards creative development is accelerated because of the loss of environmental quality and the exhaustion of historical textures in the cities. In one hand, the theory of creative city due to relative failure of other theories and, on the other hand, due to its emphasis on cultural and historical values using the tourism development model can be effective to transform the historical part of Tehran towards the native development of the region. Therefore, the present research is trying to focus on the implementation of creative development theory in the 12 regions of Tehran. To this way, an effective step is taken in advantage of the tourism development to reduce the decline and exhaustion of the region from using tourism attractions and industries. In terms of creative development, we make a selection of intervention centers, identification factors, criteria and context of creative development of historical texture. This is considered with the tourism approach in the case study. In the end, the development of the entire region can be achieved by ultimate creative zones.

Extended abstract:Introduction:One of the urban parts most visited by the citizens is city sidewalks in which a great number of people pass by day and night. Therefore, sidewalks lightening are an essential part of the night life of a city. To provide a designing guide for a lightening with a social function, it is essential to study the relations urban space lightening and perceived effects of citizens. Since the physical elements can change people‘s perceived safety, they have an undeniable impact on the quality of lightening. The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation of the nocturnal lightening physical properties and the motivation of the tourist area of Shourabil.

Extended abstract:Introduction:Urbanization and use of urban lands is the result of social and economic development. Urbanization is a major concern in many parts of the world. By 2050, the world's urban population is expected to double from about 3.3 billion in 2007 to 6.4 billion in 2050. Today, changes in land use occur without clear planning and little attention to their environmental impacts. At present, the built-up lands cover 400,000 square kilometers of the Earth's surface and it is expected to increase to 120,000 square kilometers by 2030. Recently, urban studies, classification of built-up lands and land-use change detection in urban areas using remote sensing data have been highlighted on an unprecedented manner. Various spectral indices have been proposed for rapid detection and accurate classification of built-up lands using satellite images. The purpose of this study is to compare the performance of the indices and the introduction of a new index for classification of the built-lands using satellite images to determine spatial and temporal differences of land-use in the city of Tehran.

Extended abstract:Introduction:The increasing population growth and tendency to live in the cities have led to maximum urban population for the first time throughout history. In fact, substantial rise in the population of the earth and overexploitation of environmental resources to meet economic needs have particularly influenced water resources. Iran is by no means an exception in this regard and increasing urbanism, particularly in metropolitans such as Tehran, has hindered the implementation of necessary policies to protect the environment generally and water resources specifically. At present, it is widely agreed that traditional approaches to water management in cities cannot be adequate for current and future sustainability. Thus, fundamental changes are required in technical and managerial structures of urban water systems. Some modern approaches should also be applied in sustainable planning for urban water. In this regard, a rather new concept in urban water management, namely "water-sensitive cities", has emerged since twenty years ago. This management which deals with offering ecological solutions to gain sustainability in urban development, calling for basic modifications in common methods in managerial, social and technical areas. The present study aims at localizing patterns of water-sensitive cities and determining Tehran's position compared with water-sensitive cities.

Extended abstract:Introduction:Land is one of the primary natural resources required for many activities in cities. A city is expanded not only by population, but also by changing in the spatial dimensions. Changes of land are a natural process and can't be stopped, but it can be organized. Supervising land zoning in the rules of city zoning to residential, commercial, industrial, and administrative areas is one of the important issues of urban life. Land use is one of the basic concepts in urban and regional planning. Thus, in optimized urban and environmental management, it is necessary to know about the proportion of land use changes / land cover and their causes. Remote sensing is considered for monitoring and supporting decision making for effective tools related to urban planning. The modeling for prediction of land use changes by remote sensing data is also a helpful tool that can manifest a good recognition of land use changes and present good solutions for management. The goal of the current article is to survey changes of Kermanshah city's zones through Landsat satellite images in the past three decades (1985-2013) and to predict changes until 2026 by using a combination of regression logistic, Markov chain and Markov CA models.