Hassan Sadeghi Naeini; Zahra Dehghani; Hamide Torabi; Naser Koleini Mamaghani; Zahra Kavian
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic has led to changes in people's lifestyles and behaviors. These changes have occurred in various fields, including transportation. There are several options for urban transportation, such as public and private transportation and bicycles, that different countries ...
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic has led to changes in people's lifestyles and behaviors. These changes have occurred in various fields, including transportation. There are several options for urban transportation, such as public and private transportation and bicycles, that different countries used different behaviors before and after Corona. This research aims to measure the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on people's use of different modes of transportation and their comparison. For this purpose, a Likert scale questionnaire was used in Shiraz and Tehran, Iran and the participants were selected from users of the Bicycle Rental System. The study's results revealed a decrease in people's use of these bicycles during the COVID-19 Pandemic conditions. In the same period, people favored private cars and used fewer public transportation vehicles. Among the different urban vehicles available, public transportation was the most used before COVID-19, while personal transportation was used the most after Corona.
Mohammad Javad Moghiseh; Hassan Ahmadi; Milad Homafar
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Development based on competitive advantage is one of the new methods of regional planning that increases economic productivity and improves the quality of life at the regional level. One of the approaches to developing regional competitiveness programs is the theory of complementary centers, in which ...
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Development based on competitive advantage is one of the new methods of regional planning that increases economic productivity and improves the quality of life at the regional level. One of the approaches to developing regional competitiveness programs is the theory of complementary centers, in which two or more cities are planned collectively based on their complementary potential to move towards development. Therefore, the current research with the primary goal of developing a framework for creating a competitive urban network at the regional scale seeks to find indicators that are effective on urban competitiveness in Mazandaran province and is trying to reach a general framework for creating a competitive urban network at the level of the area by benefiting from the obtained indicators. This research is quantitative and classified in the applied research group in terms of method. The hierarchical analysis method and Delphi technique are used to analyze the effect of factors affecting urban competitiveness at the regional scale. The share change model is used to analyze the competitive advantage of each city. Finally, using the SWOT analytical method, different towns' roles in the province are verified in homogeneous areas. Five cities play an agricultural function, eight cities play a service role, and nine play an industrial role as the prominent of their development to reach a complementary network at the regional scale.
Aliyeh Kazemi; Parichehr Nouri; Sara Aryaee
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Increasing demand for energy due to population growth and global warming has led to numerous environmental issues such as deforestation, destruction of the ozone layer, drought, storms, and floods. These have encouraged researchers to seek new ways to use clean, renewable energies. The construction of ...
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Increasing demand for energy due to population growth and global warming has led to numerous environmental issues such as deforestation, destruction of the ozone layer, drought, storms, and floods. These have encouraged researchers to seek new ways to use clean, renewable energies. The construction of Zero Energy buildings in Iran cities can be a significant step forward in economic development and pollution reduction in metropolitan areas. This study aims to identify and prioritize suitable cities in Iran to build Zero Energy buildings. For this purpose, the fuzzy Delphi and multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) methods have been used. The cities that are suitable for the construction of zero-energy buildings were selected through interviews with individuals who are experts in the fields of architecture, urban planning, and energy management and who are familiar with the construction of Zero Energy buildings, as well as considering the results of previous research and the characteristics of different cities. Then, with the fuzzy Delphi method, the necessary indicators for the priority of the selected cities were determined, and their weight was determined. After that, the cities were prioritized using MADM methods. The results showed that Yasuj, Shiraz, Tabriz, and Arak are suitable cities to build Zero Energy buildings in Iran.
Hadi Barghamadi; Farid Nahid
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Urban catalyst projects are implemented in order to accelerate and facilitate the regeneration process of disorganized and disordered urban areas and are accomplished by relying on social participation and the use of local capacities. This study mainly aimed to investigate the effects and impacts of ...
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Urban catalyst projects are implemented in order to accelerate and facilitate the regeneration process of disorganized and disordered urban areas and are accomplished by relying on social participation and the use of local capacities. This study mainly aimed to investigate the effects and impacts of relocating public organizations to deteriorated areas in Tehran as urban catalyst projects. Thus the methodology was designed based on social impact assessment. Data was collected through documents and field visits. Afterward, the changes derived from the intervention in different variables and impacts on stakeholders were evaluated using different techniques such as comparative analysis. In addition to the literature review, reports from several similar urban projects were also studied. Related officials, urban managers, elites, and local social actors were selected by the targeted sampling method and were also interviewed, and the interviews continued to reach theoretical saturation. Based on all the data, the impacts on various aspects, including social (changes in population density, social control, safety, social conflicts, female presence and participation, migration and gentrification, quality of life, etc.), physical (infrastructures, traffic, deterioration, urban landscape, etc.), economical (property prices, job creation, local businesses, investment, etc.) and environmental subjects were explained. In the end, for managing the impacts, the network of different institutions and organizations which should be responsible for these interventions are identified. Then related solutions are provided to increase the positive effects and reduce the negative ones.
Osman Hedayat
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The urban district of Naysar is the largest district with the highest population density in Sanandaj city, and in parallel, it has the most challenges and issues. Among these challenges and issues is the issue of ownership and housing, which has involved the residents and owners of this area in addition ...
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The urban district of Naysar is the largest district with the highest population density in Sanandaj city, and in parallel, it has the most challenges and issues. Among these challenges and issues is the issue of ownership and housing, which has involved the residents and owners of this area in addition to planners and officials. The current research considering the theory of urban regeneration analyzes how this area's physical-spatial development and territorial disputes have occurred and provides housing and ownership rights to the residents of this area. The method used in this research is an institutional ethnographic method that analyzed the situation using semi-structured interview data with 25 managers and urban planners as well as local trustees and collected statistics and organizational information related to the measures taken in the study area. The results show that due to the power of the owners and entrepreneurs and institutions such as the municipality, the marginal residents have been rejected or forced to accept the existing situation in these conflicts. The categories of urban-rural infrastructure, illegal constructions and smuggling of urban services, lack of strategic urban planning, lack of sufficient credits, and lack of stakeholder interaction indicate the conditions that have caused socio-economic instability.
Kasra Ketabollahi; Ahad Nejad Ebrahimi
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Islamic culture is one of the fundamental human issues that the comprehensiveness of the Holy Quran and authentic narrations are expected to have a proper answer to it. The primary purpose of this study is to identify the aspects of the effects of Islamic culture on the social relations of the residents ...
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Islamic culture is one of the fundamental human issues that the comprehensiveness of the Holy Quran and authentic narrations are expected to have a proper answer to it. The primary purpose of this study is to identify the aspects of the effects of Islamic culture on the social relations of the residents of the Sartapuleh neighborhood and to investigate the effect of physical elements with different functions, especially religious buildings, on the type of socialization of residents. Due to the decrease in the social importance of neighborhoods over time, this study aims to achieve a model to improve the social qualities of neighborhoods with cohesive elements. Therefore, from the content analysis method based on theoretical principles in social cohesion in accordance with the Holy Quran, the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH), and Nahj al-Balaghah, three components of good social cohesion or social cohesion including virtue, dignity, and participation were obtained. While preparing a questionnaire according to the examples of the above components, according to Cochran's formula, 100 residents and neighborhood businesses were selected as a sample, and the results showed that the components of dignity have a score of 3.44, virtue 3.36, and participation0.66. According to the standard analysis of the Likert Five-Scale Questionnaire, virtue and dignity are in the range of 2 to 3.5, ineffective, and the component of participation is in the opposite range. Finally, social cohesion is in relatively good condition, and suggestions are made to strengthen it.
