Volume 27, Issue 2 (2017)  

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XML Presenting a Conceptual Model for Integrating Urban Space Network with "Living Community" Approach*
P. Roshani , K. Habibi * , Z. S. Saeideh Zarabadi
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  • Creating integration between urban spaces
  • Spatial integrity in functional, perceptual, physical, social dimensions
  • Increasing the continuity of the important natural structures and ecological corridors
  • Continuity of the inner city network
  • Creating dynamic through connectivity function with context in urban transect


XML Investigation of the place attachment process in neighborhood with a cognitive psychological approach (Case study: The Gharebaghis' neighborhood of Tabriz)
Z. Alinam * , M. T. Pirbabaei , M. Gharehbaglou
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  • The process-oriented model of place attachment is realized with an approach of cognitive psychology.
  •  A cognitive psychological approach makes it possible to study the place attachment process by defining the process of cognition.
  •  A cognitive psychological approach provides various scientific methods and instruments to study the cognition process of place attachment.
  •  The most influential criterion on the attachment of residents, is the affect dimension; Behavior is the second and cognition is the third one identified in terms of process dimensions.


XML Evaluation of the Thermal Performance of the External Walls of Buildings with Hollow Clay Blocks in Temperate and Humid Climate
A. Emami * , E. Barzamini , S. Aloustani
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  • Thermal performance of three clay block external walls systems in temperate and humid climate is calculated.
  • The fluent software was employed to simulate and calculate the thermal characteristics.
  • Air trapped between the internal and external walls (leaves) of cavity walls considerably influenced thermal resistance.


XML Changing Regional Spatial Structure of the Population and Activity The Case of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
H. Dadashpoor * , N. Ghasemi
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XML An Integrated Approach of Spatial Justice and Structure to Detect Spatial Conflicts in Yazd City
M. Rafieian * , A. Alizadeh
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  • Lack of desirable spatial quality at the central districts is due to incoherence and no integration structure with the entire city.
  • The districts which have more coherent spatial structure have a better condition in justice distribution.
  • Spatial structure is employed to argue that physical forms and spaces can alternately promote or suppress the sense of justice in the city.


XML "Third Place", A Place for Leisure Time and its Relationship with Different Social Setting in Tabriz, Iran
A. Samadi Ahari , D. SattarZadeh *
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  • The urban village approach can be used for combining both rural and urban values in future urban developments for improving the localism.
  • Combining and integrating the urban village approach with democratic norms of urban design can help to develop the social and democratic features of the urban villages, besides the environmental issues.
  • The combinatorial principles, such as diversity, public life, public participation, social justice and equity, naturism, accessibility, contextualism, vitality, flexibility, inclusiveness, and also their sub-principles are tested in a hypothetical wasteland, to prove the practical aspects.


XML Dormitory Courtyard Proportion and Orientation in Yazd / Iran on Energy Consumption
H. Bagheri Sabzevar * , M. Masoomi , S. Tarzafan
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XML Place Branding; An Economic - Oriented Approach to Empower Informal Settlements (Case of Falak-e-Din Neighborhood, Khorramabad)
M. Zare Elmi , H. Mohammadi *
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  • Place branding is capable of playing a considerable contribution to economic empowerment of informal settlements by creating a marketable place identity.
  • Branding  an Informal settlement can rehabilitate it in all aspects of a place.
  • The optimum brand identity of Falak-E-Din neighborhood is an identity built with  an emphasis on human factors of the quarter’s identity
  • The function of Empowerment plans  in Iran can be improved by applying place branding approach 


XML The Prevalence of Urban Areas Vulnerability to Seismic Risk (A Case Study of Region One, Tehran)
S. Zare , F. Hosseini *
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