Urban and Regional Development Planning
Mahshid Nejati; Sahar Nedae Tousi
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Following the crisis of confidence in the profession based on technical rationality, a gap between theory (explicit knowledge) and practice has emerged in the field of urban planning. The objective of this research, within the framework of a systematic review, is to identify and compare approaches to ...
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Following the crisis of confidence in the profession based on technical rationality, a gap between theory (explicit knowledge) and practice has emerged in the field of urban planning. The objective of this research, within the framework of a systematic review, is to identify and compare approaches to the relationship between knowledge and action of urban planners and to expand them in planning thought and action. For this purpose, through the PRISMA practice guide, 584 sources were obtained from the Scopus, Web of Science, and Irandoc databases by searching for keywords within the time range until the end of 2022 and then by reviewing their titles, abstracts, and full texts in order, 44 sources were selected for synthesis. Subsequently, using the tools VOSviewer, Scholar GPT, and Excel, bibliometric and integrative studies were conducted on the sources. In the integrative studies, after coding, four approaches were identified. The practice-oriented approach, by emphasizing tacit knowledge, does not recognize explicit knowledge in action and is almost opposed to the praxis-oriented approach. Between these two, the contingent and reflective approaches rely on explicit and tacit knowledge in inverse proportions. These approaches reflect the plurality of situation-based discourses and decision-making structures in planning thought and action.
Urban and Regional Development Planning
Seyed Ahmad Mir Mohammad Tabar; Maryam Sohrabi
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With the increasing trend of urbanization in the world, the amount of consumption is increasing. An inevitable consequence of more consumption is the rapid increase in the amount of solid waste that is produced.During the last two decades, despite the activities of the Waste Management Organization and ...
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With the increasing trend of urbanization in the world, the amount of consumption is increasing. An inevitable consequence of more consumption is the rapid increase in the amount of solid waste that is produced.During the last two decades, despite the activities of the Waste Management Organization and the Cultural Organization of Mashhad Municipality to promote waste segregation and proper waste management, the rate of waste separation from the source in Mashhad city is not acceptable and there is a need to investigate the challenges of waste management in order to identify the problems and reasons for improper waste management in Mashhad city.The main purpose of the research is to identify the challenges of waste management and its reasons in Mashhad. The data of this qualitative study was collected through in-depth interviews and thematic analysis method was used to analyze the data. Twenty-five interviewees were interviewed with purposeful sampling and theoretical saturation criteria, and finally the collected data were coded and analyzed in the form of two overarching themes and eight organizing themes. The results about the problems of waste management in Mashhad show that the four themes organizing the unstable environmental behavior of citizens, legal-structural failure, executive inefficiency and problems related to pilgrims during peak times are the most important challenges of waste management in Mashhad.The four organizing themes of cultural and social gaps, commodity and income view of waste, low deterrence of laws and organizational weakness are the most important reasons for the challenges of waste management in Mashhad.
Urban and Regional Development Planning
rahman farahani; sadeq salehi; mehraban parsamehr
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Urban poverty in Iran has always been a multifaceted phenomenon influenced by political, ideological, and economic contexts. Relying on critical discourse analysis theories inspired by the works of Laclau and Mouffe, this research examines governmental discourses surrounding urban poverty in the Islamic ...
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Urban poverty in Iran has always been a multifaceted phenomenon influenced by political, ideological, and economic contexts. Relying on critical discourse analysis theories inspired by the works of Laclau and Mouffe, this research examines governmental discourses surrounding urban poverty in the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Third to the Thirteenth Administration. The study also investigates the internal and external factors affecting the success or failure of anti-poverty discourses and demonstrates how the discursive techniques and specific theoretical frameworks of each period have influenced decision-making and the allocation of economic resources. To collect data, official government documents and policymakers' statements were analyzed. The findings indicate that in different periods, the interpretations and socio-political outcomes of the concept of poverty varied significantly. For instance, during certain periods, an emphasis on defense and the economic pressures of war limited the implementation of broad welfare policies, whereas in other periods, distributive justice approaches and social support measures took center stage. Overall, the results show that poverty discourse has played a crucial role in shaping public policies, directly influencing the government’s perception of the causes and solutions to poverty.
Urban and Regional Development Planning
sahar zamani nezhad; Reza Vaezi; Gholamreza Kazemian Shirvan; Hossein Aslipour
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Urban governance approaches are undergoing significant transformation. Due to the increasing role of technology in urban functions, smart governance is recognized as an appropriate solution to address urban issues. However, an exclusively focus on smartization has not delivered the anticipated outcomes. ...
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Urban governance approaches are undergoing significant transformation. Due to the increasing role of technology in urban functions, smart governance is recognized as an appropriate solution to address urban issues. However, an exclusively focus on smartization has not delivered the anticipated outcomes. Insufficient consideration of contextual factors and the complex interplays between technology and social structures along with inadequacies in identifying the true needs and priorities of the city content has often resulted in the failure of even the most advanced technological implementations, leading to wasted investment and more public dissatisfaction. The present study seeks to identify the structural components of contextual smart urban governance as an emerging concept in the domain of urban management. Employing a meta-synthesis methodology, this research reviews scholarly literature from credible domestic and international sources published between 2010 and 2024.The findings resulted in the identification of three overarching themes (context, components and purpose) and eleven organizing themes, namely political context, spatial context, social context, institutional structures, technological aspects, collaboration and participation, leadership and competencies, human capital, and urban issues.
Urban and Regional Development Planning
zohreh salehinezhad; mohammadmehdi mohammadipoor; seyed ali almodaresi
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Illegal construction is one of the major challenges in urban development.Most of the illegal construction in large cities of Iran is related to height and construction violations, building permits, and commercial uses. Common methods for controlling construction are time-consuming and costly.Therefore, ...
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Illegal construction is one of the major challenges in urban development.Most of the illegal construction in large cities of Iran is related to height and construction violations, building permits, and commercial uses. Common methods for controlling construction are time-consuming and costly.Therefore, the main goal of this study is to provide a framework for rapid and low-cost estimation in monitoring and detecting unauthorized buildings and height violations in the ImamShahr area of Yazd due to population density,construction, and high potential for migration,using a combination of Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 radar satellite images in the period 2015 to 2020.For this purpose, after geometric and radiometric corrections, the images were first grouped together using the SNAP and ENVI software to separate and differentiate buildings based on height, using texture features including mean,variance, and dissimilarity inVV and VH polarizations, and then extracted using the artificial neural network classification method,urban impervious surfaces, and building heights, and using optical images to identify building shadows.The results of the processing,the average kappa coefficient and overall accuracy of Sentinel-1 images withVV polarization were 77.16and 79.5percent, and inVH polarization were79.16and 80.66percent, and for the neural network classification map of Sentinel-2 images, 66.73 and 66.75 percent;The number and area of unauthorized constructions also showed that in 2015, the study area had the highest amount of unauthorized construction compared to other study years due to the weakness of the building police field inspection, the legal vacuum in dealing with violators, and the manner of handling or factors of the violation(municipality, citizen).
Urban and Regional Development Planning
Hossein Habibi
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Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the present research adopts its methodology according to the “material culture” concept in anthropology and archaeology and the “theory of practice” in the social sciences. This work is especially focused on the function of the cultural ...
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Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the present research adopts its methodology according to the “material culture” concept in anthropology and archaeology and the “theory of practice” in the social sciences. This work is especially focused on the function of the cultural heritage symbols in the public spaces of the contemporary Jiroft city. Data were gathered through archival and field techniques and examined via a descriptive-analytic method. The sociopolitical milieu of such adaptations of cultural symbols in the urban development projects is contextualised spatially (southern Kerman region) and diachronically (roughly mid to late 14th century of the Iranian solar calendar). It is argued that the hysteresis of the 1350s and 1360s may be inferred in the region. In the 1380s, Jiroft’s ancient heritage turned into a hot topic in the academia internationally and then in the region’s social spheres. Firstly, local endeavours to reach competitive positions in the field of economy were rather controlled by the field of power. Therefore, the strategies were chiefly limited to the field of knowledge. Scientific achievements brought about the popularity of the concepts of distinguished identity and heritage in the communal habitus in the region. This zeitgeist had reflections in the public space of the urban environment.
