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Empirical Principles of Sustainable Building Design for Desert Regions Seyed Majid Mofidi 1 , Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.
In this article objectives are threefold: The first is defining sustainable community and its characteristics for opening view to major subject of paper; the second is trying to define the role and importance of sustainable neighbourhoody planning in hierarchy of urban development plans based on literature produced at the international level and new paradigm of spatial planning.
com Cultural Anthropology, A mean for Analyzing Forming Factors of Architecture Shadi Azizi 1 , Assistant professor, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Iran.
The research findings indicate that city-dwelling has paved the way for the growth of the new middle class in Iran through need for development of specialists and skill-owners, technological services, commercial and industrial capitalization, politico-urban institutions and educational systems.
The findings of this article illustrate that urbanization provides an appropriate ground for the growth and development of the new middle class through creation of appropriate space for the development of specialized and service activities, creation of appropriate and inappropriate conditions in industrial and commercial investment, the transition of social relations from traditional to modern, and the development of higher education system.
ir Structure, Focusing on Public Urban Spaces Role The Case of Tehran city Farah Habib, Associate Professor, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.