نشریه مطالعات ساختار و کارکرد شهری
پیاپی 2 (تابستان 1392)

Higher education centers as a part of the active urban areas, including the potential cultural capacities, and presenting services in high levels of urban society are considered the best urban cultural spaces of sustainable development of urban culture This study aimed to identify and analyze performance space higher education centers in promoting urban culture in the Tehran metropolitan represent the relationship between higher education centers and urbanization culture in the metropolitan. The methodology of the research is based on descriptive –analytical approaches which exploited intensive documentary sources. The survey results show that there is a significant relationship between these two regions. To form the metropolis Tehran Higher education centers in urban culture sustainable development have influenced Tehran. To the knowledge of the process and impact of higher education institutions in the promotion of culture in the metropolitan city of Tehran the assumptions and parameters specified, the binomial non parametric tests were used separately in 3 regions and 19. In order to introduce the role of centers higher education in achieving culture urban sustainable development in the metropolitan city of Tehran Some suggestions are put forward on the basis of sustainable development.

In recent years the informal urban housing and followed by property insecure have attracted to attention of many researchers and organizations in worldwide. As far as the Habitat has mentioned in tenure insecurity as deprivation index in informal settlements. In this study, has been investigated the relationship between tenure security and quality of housing in the neighborhood of Islam-Abad 2, an informal settlement centers of Urmia. In assessing the relationship,11 indicators of legal, custom, and perceptual aspects security tenure has been reduced by Factor analysis to the four factors that comprises the lack of secure housing, lack of support networks, ownership instability and fear of homelessness. For Physical quality of housing have been used the four indicators that consist of foundation area, type of construction, type of roof and satisfying of the residents of the physical condition of the housing. The research method used in this paper was an analytical method and were used the survey and questionnaire method and techniques of factor analysis and multiple regression to analyze the raw data questionnaire. The results indicated that the security of tenure and physical quality of housing has direct positive relationship and the lack of guaranteed settlement as the main factors in reducing security of tenure in the neighborhood of Islam Abad 2.

Considering the high volume of clients particularly women in urban areas and the strong demand for use of these places by citizens, the make of safety and comfort of these spaces is one of the main concerns of policy makers and urban planners. In order to, the aim of current paper is the assessment of women’s participatory in public spaces safety of Saqqez city by Participatory Urban Appraisal model. Applied methodology is based on library studies, women's PUA meetings, and questionnaire and field studies. Statistical society of research consist of women living, working and traveling in Saqqez urban spaces with point on public spaces of south and north Imam Khomeini avenue, Republic street and Quds avenue in Saqqez city that as random clusters were selected 200 of them as the sample size (N= 50 for each groups of 17 -34, 34- 51, 51- 65 and over of 65 years old). In continue were presented the participatory model of PUA during the five stages as A) provide preparations, b) meetings to discuss, c) provides administrative guidelines, D) field and undergraduate studies and E) is presented of needed strategies according to three criteria’s of access, Land uses, optimal spaces design for women’s and urban furniture by SWOT model. Results showed that in terms of female-centric land uses, the Quds street had far more inappropriate in providing of physical and psychological comfort of women’s with (96%) rather north Imam Khomeini street (62%), south Imam Khomeini street (45%) and Republic street with (42%). Also the results showed that city street furniture index in Republic Street with providing more favorable conditions of women's satisfaction (41%) have more favorable situation than Quds Avenue (29%), south Imam Khomeini Street (18%) and north Imam Khomeini Street with 12%. Also, other indicator’s had similar situation. Finally, were presented the needed strategies to ease the traffic and urban transportation (as: taxi and bus stations).

City of Isfahan has located in dry area of Iran and has some problems in urban transportation, environment and cultural spaces due to because of existing limitations; which by the growth of population it multiples inequity and unhealthy competition for urban service accessibility. This study aims to analysis and evaluate sustainable development through the study of 66 indices in Isfahan. The given parameters included five groups of social, economic, cultural - educational, physical - environmental, infrastructure– residential. The methodology of the research is based on descriptive and analytical approaches and the results are applied and developmental. To analysis the data quantitative methods are used different techniques of planning such ads multi-criteria decision making method (TOPSIS), Entropy coefficients, Hierarchical cluster analysis and the dispersion coefficient. The results of this study indicate that the urban zones of 5 and 6 in Isfahan, are most developed areas with the final score of 0.743 and 0.741 and they are different in comparison with other urban zones. Also, zone 10 with a score of 0.087 is less developed and most deprived district. Hierarchical cluster analysis shows, urban zones of five and six in Isfahan are the highest developed areas of the city and the zones of one and three placed in second place regarding to their level of development.The Dispersion coefficient of development index calculated 0.658 for all 14 zones of Isfahan.

Today urban eroded textures are one of the obstacles for realization of modern management oh urbanism. The city of Yazd has 2600 hectares old texture. Identifying the physical and functional status of the textures is an important work for planning, manage, maintaining. In this study, the neighborhood of Mujahideen has been analyzed and evaluated on the base of major indicators such as buildings, socio–economic status and the quality of current land uses. The methodology of the research is based on descriptive- analytical approaches and the data was collected by conducting a field work and documentary records. The results showed that the residents of the neighborhood declined from 5317 in 1375 to 4922 in 1385 and moved to other areas of the city. Also the neighborhood illustrated major physical old structures and the existing uses cannot meet the needs of its residents. Such condition disturbed the spatial organization of the area where many incompatible uses are dysfunction the general activities of the neighborhood.

Organizational vision is an image formed in the mind and spirit of a group of people (for example, employees of an organization), and create a shared sense in their heart and souls. This desirable image influences on organization and coordinating all activities of the organization toward a common goal. The purpose of this paper is to developing organizational vision for the city of Saveh in the process of strategic planning. The purpose of municipal vision development is creating an image or a common ideal within the organization to achieve its goals. In other words, the goal of developing an organizational vision, and create a common ideal, is to answer this question which “what (what kind of city) we (the municipality complex) wants to create?”
According to purpose, this research is applied, and the collection of materials and information required, analytic– descriptive. In the process of strategic analysis, External & Internal Factors Evaluation Matrix (EFEM & IFEM) is used. For the development of municipality vision, the Ames proposed method is used, which has two steps, and each step is associated with a workshop seminar. According to research results, in 20 next year, Saveh municipal, will be partnership and research-based. Municipality can provide differentiated services to citizens by creating electronic municipality. Saveh Municipality will strive to build Sister City communication. The other aspects in the vision of municipality are supporting sport activities and festivals in the city, as well as having a central role in the integrated management of Saveh.

The main question of this research is “what is the reason of people’s reluctancy to walkways?” and “how do they communicate more with walkways?” this research intend to show the importance of pedestrian life and introduce the solutions to improve the quality of such spaces. A city consists of many elements and components that some of them are concrete and physical. So they affect the city space and pedestrian paths. There are some other phenomena which are abstract and intangible. These kinds of phenomena also affect the quality of urban spaces and pedestrian paths. The objective of this research is to focus on Fahadan vicinity in Yazd to investigate this hypothesis and also intend to study about tangible and intangible factors and their effect on pedestrian paths. The results of this research indicate that ignoring human scale in design of buildings and of course in design of city spaces will cause people are reluctant to use such spaces appropriately. Architects and urban designers together are able to approach the appropriate human scale by employing elements like corridors and arcades.