JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN SPACE DEVELOPMENT
Year:2017 | Volume:4 | Issue:1 (6)|Papers Count:12

1. Introduction: Cities are vast arenas for the concentration of population and activities, and human health has an inseparable connection with the conditions and quality of urban environments. The quality of urban environment is an important factor in the way of providing health and life satisfaction...

1. Introduction: The development of the physical growth and population growth of cities has been on a steep rise over the past three decades. With new developments, cities were quickly adapted to changes, and the expansion of the service sector, and the concentration of industries and factories in cities have attracted people from many villages and small cities to major cities...

1. Introduction: The most important human need is security, which is one of the most important factors in the quality of urban design and influences the presence of citizens in urban neighborhoods and, consequently, the vitality of neighborhoods...

1. Introduction: Cities are living beings that always need to be revived, and in order to survive, they need to revive their worn out textures. Among the cities of Iran, the city of Mashhad with 2245.47 hectares of urban wastewater is facing a major challenge for the renovation of these parts...

1. Introduction: Without taking the ecological differences and environmental capabilities of lands into account, using land can culminate in unpleasant consequences and destroy the environment. This will endanger natural resources and obstruct the environment’s sustainable development as such...

1. Introduction: Growing needs of city-dwellers to amusement and rest environments and most importantly, the movement of millions of tourists throughout the year, increases the necessity and importance of research on aspects of the tourism industry...

1. Introduction: Developments in the urbanization phenomenon have resulted in more complicated urban problems, making the issue of urban transportation one of the main concerns for urban planners...

1. Introduction: The existence of a good management system can influence the formation of an appropriate brand for the city, which depends on good urban governance. The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of good urban governance in branding of Shandiz...

1. Introduction: The physical expansion of cities and continued use of automobiles underlie many problems of urban world. North of Iran with its unique natural potential is one of the rapid growing centers in response to the increasing level of inter and infra provincial migrants…

1. Introduction: Iran is among the top ten countries vulnerable to natural disasters (Amini, 2005), the most important of which is considered to be earthquakes. Located on the Alpine-Himalayan belt, this country has experienced 130 earthquakes with magnitudes of Mw 7.5 on the Richter scale during the past few centuries (Zangi Abadei, Mohamadeisafaei, & Ghaed Rahmati., 2008)...