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Place attachment is an effective bond that people establish with their spatial environment, where they desire to stay and feel a sense of calm and security. Today, humans live in houses where the disregard for human needs in their design and construction has led to issues such as reduced sense of attachment and tranquility. This research aims to revive decorations and the sense of attachment in contemporary buildings while respecting indigenous culture. It is divided into two parts: data collection and documentation using library resources and references, as well as field studies analyzing the patterns of brickwork decorations in terms of qualitative form using AutoCAD software. The research was completed by the authors through descriptive and analytical methods. Subsequently, in the research process, a comparative method was used to examine the mentioned wall decorations from the perspective of the impact of the sense of place attachment component in Khoun-Chini decorations in Ahvaz. Khoun-Chini decorations, which constitute the most common form of decoration in the studied houses, include four types: Rasteh, Chelipa, Four Diagonal, and Bazouband, in order. In terms of color, earthen tones, and materials, brickwork and Khoun-Chini decorations account for the highest percentage. Additionally, the analysis of Khoun-Chini decorations based on the components of sense of place attachment is presented in comparative tables.Research Objectives: Investigating the role of Khoun-Chini decorations on walls in traditional houses of Ahvaz city.Analyzing Khoun-Chini decorations based on the components of sense of place attachment through comparative tables.Research Questions:What is the role of Khoun-Chini decorations on walls in traditional houses of Ahvaz city?How are Khoun-Chini decorations in terms of the components of sense of place attachment?

The Khuzestan Governor's Palace, generally recognized as a building from the first Pahlavi period, displays architectural features that align more closely with the second Pahlavi era than the typical style of the first Pahlavi palaces. This article addresses this architectural discrepancy by conducting a historical investigation into the palace's origins and transformations, revealing new insights about its development. According to the findings, while the Governor's Palace was originally constructed and utilized during the first Pahlavi era, significant renovations were undertaken in the late 1940s. These modifications likely occurred in connection with Iran's First Construction Development Plan and involved a decision to repair and modify the structure extensively. These renovations introduced substantial and sweeping changes within a short timeframe, with the project overseen by three prominent contemporary Iranian architects—Mohsen Foroughi, Ali Sadegh, and Keyqobad Zafar Bakhtiar. The architectural plans for the renovation, prepared by these architects, were executed under the direct supervision of Foroughi and Sadegh between 1954 and 1956, thus transforming the Khuzestan Governor's Palace into an early example of palace construction influenced by second Pahlavi aesthetics. One notable aspect of this renovation was the comprehensive redesign of the palace gardens and surrounding landscape. Foroughi and Sadegh replaced the existing Western-style garden, common in the late Qajar to early Pahlavi periods, with an Iranian Charbagh design. Additionally, the architectural style of the palace itself was transformed from a neoclassical pavilion structure to a modernized design with elements referencing traditional Iranian architectural motifs. This renovation project, which was among the first of its kind during the second Pahlavi era, may have paved the way for Foroughi's later architectural work, including his designs for the Niavaran Palace, and contributed to the evolution of modern Iranian architectural practices. In addition to its architectural significance, the renovation of the Khuzestan Governor's Palace involved considerable advancements from a technical and engineering perspective. The palace facilities were thoroughly upgraded using innovative engineering methods of the time. Bhutan Company designed the heating system, which, though no longer intact, represented cutting-edge technology. Additionally, Mehdi Bazargan, a prominent mechanical engineer and contemporary political activist, designed the cooling system. These technological updates significantly altered the palace's infrastructure, enhancing its functionality to meet modern standards. Today, the transformation of the palace has left only the basement as a visible remnant of the original Pahlavi construction. This research thus provides a deeper understanding of how historical renovations can reshape a structure's identity, blending elements of different architectural periods to reflect Iran's evolving heritage.

Integrated urban management is one of the sustainable and environmentally friendly transportation development strategies. This approach helps to respond to the ever-increasing transportation needs of cities in a safer, more cost-effective, more reliable, and sustainable manner and to increase the role of these settlements in the implementation of policies and the realization of sustainable development goals at different global, national, and local levels. Therefore, today, achieving an integrated public transportation system is one of the most important strategies and goals of city management, and coordination between different public transportation lines is necessary. Integration can be defined as the coordination between the components of the transportation system and existing sub-systems. Therefore, intra-system integration deals with the coordination of the transportation system with other systems as well. The aim of the current research is to measure the effect of integrated urban management on the development of transportation and traffic in the Ahvaz metropolis. The current research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in nature with a survey approach. Two library and field methods (questionnaires) were used to collect information. In data and information analysis, the statistical techniques of variance-based structural equation modeling and covariance-based structural equation modeling were used. The findings show that the overall evaluation indices of the structural equation model indicate that the data support the theoretical model of this research. In other words, the fit of the data to the model is established and the fit indices indicate the desirability of the structural equation model. Moreover, the strengthening of the integrated management of urban transport leads to the increase or strengthening of the development of transport and traffic, and its weakening will slow down the development of urban transport and traffic in the Ahvaz metropolis.

Today, smart cities are a new paradigm in the global urban planning system. Based on the capabilities of information and communication technology, these smart cities try to improve the quality of life in places which are immersed in numerous problems with social, economic, environmental and other dimensions. However, a comprehensive, multidimensional, complex smart city is based on the urban planning paradigm of complexity and chaos which can lead to successful planning and management. The present study, from the perspective of modern chaos theory, is aimed to formulate strategic requirements for the realization of the smart city in Ahvaz metropolis.

This article is in the category of applied-developmental research, which is question-based. It has been accomplished using bibliographic and survey method, using exploratory factor analysis, one-sample t-test and Friedman ranking test in SPSS software. The survey instrument was a 5-point Likert questionnaire whose final content validity was confirmed by professors and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.906. The statistical population consist of the experts of the institutions involved in the smartening process of Ahvaz metropolis. A combination of clustered snowball sampling methods and monitored network was used in this research. Finally, 380 questionnaires were completed. The adequacy of the number of samples was confirmed by KMO method.

Based on the findings of the research, in relation to the theory of chaos, it is possible to conclude that Ahvaz metropolis is affected by the non-linear effect in the smartening process; also, the butterfly effect is significant in this metropolis. Moreover, in connection with the modulating variable of the power of universities and research institutes, sensibly, it can be accepted that the condition of this component is also not inappropriate. Using Friedman’s ranking test, the authors ranked the components and indicators including the butterfly effect of social and ethnic pluralism, social moderators, steady flow of energy, people, non-linear effect, variable modulating power of universities and research institutes, contexts, structural forces, institutional forces. Finally, the use of communication and information technology capabilities in promoting environmental quality (motivators) are located.

Based on the results of the research, nonlinear effects govern the process of smart city development in Ahvaz significantly. This implies that a nonlinear system, influenced by variables such as conflicting interests, developmental contradictions, ownership conflicts, and the level of technology acceptance by the public, dominates the realization of the smart city in Ahvaz. These factors have led to turbulent conditions in this metropolis. In this context, the impact of two key factors, namely, government and oil, on this process and system, as well as the central-peripheral dynamics shaped in the country, particularly in connection with the oil-rich city of Ahvaz, cannot be overlooked. As many researchers have emphasized in their studies, the government has commercialized money and capital in the cities through the vast banking system. It has helped the expansion of cities and urbanization more than ever. This extensive and unmatched influence of the government originates above all from the way of obtaining its revenue sources, i.e. the export of crude oil, the resulting national surplus has an important contribution to the accumulation of capital and expanding reproduction in the economic process of the country. In such an atmosphere, the military creation of the center and the periphery has caused the emergence of an unbalanced national development model. Therefore, as observed in the analytical research model, the government and oil entities, in addition to their impact within the framework of internal structural institutions of the Ahvaz metropolis, are considered external influential factors in the overall drivers of smart city realization in Ahvaz. The presence of these two entities, due to their interactions with each other and the factors of conflicting interests, developmental contradictions, ownership conflicts, and the level of technology acceptance by the public, intensifies the nonlinear effects in the process of smart city development in Ahvaz. Inside, the stimuli have stimulated the drives and the drivers - based on the theoretical foundations of smart cities - with the goal of achieving a more efficient, sustainable, livable and fairer city in an urban framework with dimensions of smart environment, smart life, smart economy, smart mobility, smart governance and smart people to mobilize resources and facilities. But in the meantime, the factor of social and ethnic pluralism as a factor with a butterfly effect can be effective in this movement from drivers to a smart city. Also, in this transformation, two social moderator variables and the power of universities and research institutes are effective in this movement. In addition, the internet access flows as a constant flow of energy on the entire system.

Nowadays, the intelligent use of technology as an efficient strategy to improve environmental quality, especially in the cities of advanced countries, is on the agenda. In this process, measuring the current situation is considered the first step towards using technology to improve environmental quality. However, the problem is that such a measurement has not been done in the Ahvaz metropolis. Therefore, the aim of the research is to measure the current situation of the Ahvaz metropolis in terms of using technology to improve environmental quality. This research is an applied-developmental problem-oriented study that follows an exploratory approach by using the document library and survey data collection methods. The Kolmograph-Smirnoff, Shapiro-Wilk, TT sample, and Friedman ranking tests were used for analyzing the data. The survey tool was a 5-point Likert questionnaire, whose final content validity and reliability were confirmed by the professors' opinion and Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.893, respectively. The statistical community of the research consisted of experts. The sampling method was a two-stage cluster, through which 142 samples of academic experts were selected. Considering that the number of the statistical population is not known, this sample size is sufficient according to Rasko's rules. Based on the findings of the research, following a passive and deterministic attitude, which is under the influence of centralist policies in the framework of the center-periphery system and the political economy based on oil rent, has caused not only the use of technology in this metropolis not be done to improve the quality environmental protection, but it has also created many problems in Ahvaz metropolis, especially environmental problems. In the end, some solutions were suggested based on the research findings.

The city as a physical symbol of the cultural, social, political and economic situation in each period is a criterion for evaluating the developments of society in that era and urban space is a domain as a scene of reciprocal action that has certain boundaries and makes it possible to concentrate social actions in any way possible. Strengthening and expanding the appropriate, active  and  dynamic and vibrant urban space as one of the strategic goals of improving the quality of urban artifact environments is always at the top of the work of urban planners and planners. Especially., today, the quality of vitality of public arenas has  been  degraded and the incidence of social creativity in urban places has been diminished, identifying the contexts, factors and components that can consciously or unconsciously affect the occurrence of social creativity is a concern that has attracted the attention of urban planners and designers. According to this issue, identifying the unconscious factors in the environment and their impact on social creativity is the main issue of this study .To achieve this goal, the users of urban space, i.e. residents of three neighborhoods of  Manba Ab, Newside and Ameri  of Ahvaz, were selected as the statistical population of the study. The sample size was calculated equal to 380 people and was distributed among the members of the statistical population by random sampling method. Data analysis was  performed using factor analysis models and structural equation modeling in SPSS and Amos software. The findings showed that 13 identified factors could explain more than 68.54% of the variance of social creativity in urban places. The results also showed that the factors of social capital and motivation for the occurrence of talents and abilities, the responsiveness of space and the experience of creating places, culture, tradition and beliefs of the society, originality, diversity, uniqueness of space and furniture ranked first to fourth among the factors affecting creativity in urban places.

According to different experts around the world, smart city has different features and dimensions.  And the implementation of a smart city faces challenges like any other effective matter. The city of Ahvaz is like all the cities that move in the direction of development.  In order to achieve sustainable development, it is necessary to identify and solve these challenges as soon as possible. By solving these problems; Take the steps of sustainable development as fast and better as possible one after the other.
The goal of the smart city is to achieve the integration of urban services, business, transportation, water, energy and other urban subsystems by combining and analyzing data collected through sensors and information and communication technology. The purpose of this study is to prioritize the obstacles and challenges facing the smart city in Ahvaz.
This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical method. The statistical population of the present study was 42 experts in this field. Library-field method (questionnaire) was used to collect information. In this study, eight barriers (management and organization, technology, individuals and communities, political context, environment, economy, governance, infrastructure) have been evaluated statistically and the data obtained through PROMETHEE visual software have been analyzed., To prioritize effective criteria in a smart urban city.The results showed that the environmental index with a pH of + 0/6044 had the highest weight and the index of individuals and communities with a weight of pH 0/2967 had the lowest scoring priority of the challenges facing the smart city.
The results showed that until the people's participation and cooperation and attention to the improvement of urban planning on the part of the people and officials are strengthened, it is not possible to move towards a smart city. Other factors such as weak management of the city administration, failure to remove legal and regulatory obstacles, lack of alignment of organizational and project goals, resistance to change and lack of inter-organizational and inter-departmental cooperation, etc., also require the attention of city officials and planners.

In recent decades, following the unprecedented expansion of cities, pedestrian services in urban areas have gradually decreased. With the excessive increase of cities, urban spaces should be moved towards vitality and pleasantness for citizens. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to assess the vitality quality of urban sidewalks on Salman Farsi Street in Ahvaz. The research method is confirmatory-analytical. The statistical population of the research was randomly selected 100 people who are present on the sidewalk. Data analysis was done using SPSS software tests, Friedman, Chi-square, T, multivariate regression statistical tests. According to the results of the questionnaire, some of the priorities of the lively sidewalk from people's opinions are: variety of uses, security and safety, organization and improvement, morale and culture, pause space and city furniture. In addition, the creation of a sidewalk is considered as one of the people concerns, and the components of security, culture, creativity and diversity have the greatest effect.

capacity for the realization of a smart city in the metropolis of Ahvaz and to rank its indicators. The research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method, which in assessing the status of components, the views of executive experts in institutions and organizations involved in the process of smartening the city has been used.The data collection tool is a researcher-made electronic questionnaire based on a five-point Likert scale; In order to analyze the data, mean statistical tests, one-sample t-test and Friedman ranking were used using SPSS software. The statistical sample of this study is 380 samples that were selected by snowball sampling and supervised network.According to the research findings, the status of the institutional capacity for the realization of a smart city in the metropolis of Ahvaz is not appropriate, and among these, the peripheral components and smart governance are in a lower situation compared to other components. Also, based on the research findings, solutions in two categories of general solutions and solutions in the direction of components were proposed.

Today, paying attention to environmental issues in planning, activities and development measures in cities, can be an effective step to improve the environmental situation and thus improve the quality of life of citizens. Due to the economic, social, cultural and political conditions of the country, there are challenges on the country's environment that its study and identification can determine the strategy for managing and improving the quality of the country's environment. This research has been done in the field and in the library. The field method of data realization was through the Meteorological Organization, municipality, program and budget; Thus, by examining the components of the DPSIR model, the urban environmental situation of Ahvaz was investigated. Finally, it was concluded that the DPSIR framework provides an effective approach to generating data that provides the information needed to guide and advise policymakers on policy formulation. On the other hand, the environmental growth and development of cities is an issue that is being formed and pursued in many important cities of the world; Because the expansion and growth of cities, if not accompanied by the development and application of basic concepts of ecology and ecosystem approach, will eventually lead to the city becoming the only place for urbanites to spend time and no attraction for its inhabitants. It will not have.

Since every activity takes place in the human imagination, it is basically based on culture, and that activity is a function of the cultural characteristics of society, and this is the case in urban spaces. Every cultural area has a border (physical, political or cultural). Khuzestan province has long been the circulation of ethnic groups with different dialects, rituals and subcultures. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to evaluate several central categories including contemporary urban location, intercultural dimensions and the coastal strip of western Kianpars in Ahvaz. The statistical population of the study is district one of the two districts of Ahvaz with a population of 4957 people. Using the Morgan table method, 355 people, both men and women, were selected by simple random sampling to respond to the research tool. In order to test the research hypotheses, structural equation modeling has been used. The results of the present study show that contemporary urban space with an intercultural approach is a two-dimensional concept with different dimensions. In this study, using the studies conducted, the intercultural dimensions of place including events, interactive-evolutionary, absorption and persistence in the form of two concepts of intercultural communication and meaning in the field of contemporary urban space with dimensions of behavior and activity, environmental quality, spatial satisfaction Using SPSS and PLS-SMART3 statistical software, the hypotheses are tested in combination and then a model is created. The results showed that there is a significant and direct relationship between the independent intercultural variable and the dependent variable of contemporary urban location.