Mazdak Irani

• The University of Sydney

Social aspects constitute both concerns and opportunities in smart city development, as evidenced by a rapidly increasing body of research. This article presents the first-ever review of all the existing research on social focus in smart cities, delineating the distribution of topics, knowledge bases, and research frontiers that constitute the exis...

A R T I C L E I N F O Keywords: Place attachment Civic engagement Pro-environmental behavior Confirmatory factor analysis Eram neighborhood A B S T R A C T This study aimed to investigate the impact of place attachment and civic engagement on pro-environmental behavior, with place attachment being examined from an individual perspective , and civic...

The decision on developing a new town is always informed by the needs and requirements of regional and national planning on the basis of political viewpoints, natural recourses, industrial facilities, and population surplus viewpoints. In different areas, new towns were built to address the emerging social, economic, and environmental problems by s...

This paper investigates the theoretical and research literature on urban resilience. It examines various definitions of the concept and explores its social, economic, and institutional dimensions as components of a dynamic system. The study design was a descriptive review of relevant material collected from high quality scientific databases using t...

The consequences of climate change are observed in several ways in human settlements, one of which is the threat it poses to the physical elements and infrastructures of cities. To mitigate it, cities apply adaptation strategies. These strategies have proper effectiveness and are adapted according to local characteristics. This study applied the cr...

In traditional housing architecture has always been tried to provide safe place to live and create appropriate positions with coordinate to its environment. In fact, the status directly affected by geography and climate conditions. In Iran, four different climates such as hot and humid, hot and dry, mild, and humid and cold caused to establish vari...

"Sustainable development" refers to some solutions for non-appropriate patterns in body, spatial, social, cultural and economic in order to prevent all levels and fields that lead to negative shifts. It requires considering sustainable architecture and its formation in architectural designs for in-depth knowledge of sustainable purposes. Sustainabl...