Urban-Mixed use development; A Professional Literature Review

Urban mixed-use development has been one the important urban planning paradigms in North American and European cities. This approach has been emerged from the new urban planning theories such as new urbanism، smart growth and sustainable development. At a glance to urban plans which have been produced for our metropolitans we can find that the theorical and methodological explanation of this paradigm has been paled in domestic literature. This issue made the platform of the article in order to characterize approach of urban mixed-use development in domestic urban development literature. Thus، components and contexts of 135 correlate Persian articles in a professional literature review process have been analyzed. Contents analysis method has used for the process and SPSS software used too in order to make the results more clear. The results showed that this approach was very mint in the literature and researchers have newly focused on that. It found that among the correlate articles the ratio of mixed use works was very low. Also the results showed that divers field of study has defray to mixed use development in which urbanism and geographers have more slice. At the end it clarified that utilizing urban mixed use development is really needful.