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Measuring The Quality Of Life And City Competitiveness: A Methodological Frameworkfor The Iranian Metropolis, Kamran Jafarpour Ghalehteimouri, Afshar Hatami, Hanieh Asadzadeh
Measuring The Quality Of Life And City Competitiveness: A Methodological Frameworkfor The Iranian Metropolis, Kamran Jafarpour Ghalehteimouri, Afshar Hatami, Hanieh Asadzadeh
Journal of Urban Culture Research
Recently competitiveness has become one of the most used concepts in the urban and regional planning literature. This research aims to show the competi-tive situation of the eight metropolises in Iran based on the quality of life indices. The analytical, descriptive method used in this research to show the facts that are involved in different metropolises. Applying framework, required information gathered from world cities information center (NUMBEO https://www.numbeo.com/). ELECTRE III (ELimination Et Choix Traduisant la REalite, in French) is an ef-fective Multi Criteria Decision Analysis method. The results indicate that impor-tant effective factors in population selection of living in the …
An Investigation Into Urban Development: Patterns With Sprawl And Other Corresponding Changes: A Case Study Of Babol City, Jafarpour Ghalehteimouri Kamran, Kamanrudi Kojuri Musa, Gholinia Firouzjaee Sadegh
An Investigation Into Urban Development: Patterns With Sprawl And Other Corresponding Changes: A Case Study Of Babol City, Jafarpour Ghalehteimouri Kamran, Kamanrudi Kojuri Musa, Gholinia Firouzjaee Sadegh
Journal of Urban Culture Research
Urban sprawl is one of the serious problems in developing countries and is known as serious economic, physical, and environmental problems in Iran. This study aims to investigate Babol City development between 1956-2016 and more spe-cifically deals with its spatial changes and variations. Based on secondary data collection from Iran Statistical Center for Holdrem model to the as appropriate method to show sprawl tendency. After that, with the application of descriptive statistic in order to analyze data and corresponding information Application of the Holdren model illustrated that 74% of this increase is associated with popula-tion growth and the rest, that …