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M. Erfanian Salim and Osman Mohd Tahir Urban open public spaces are supposed to meet peoples’ needs in contemporary thinking of urban design. This study posits that urban design can meet users’ needs while identifying factors affecting these needs. Thus, the study clarifies the environmental factors as a part of these affecting factors and specifically

M. Erfanian Salim and O. Mohd Tahir Small islands are often encouraged to balance their economic and environmental concerns toward sustainable tourism. Universal experience shows that sustainable tourism in small islands should take into account their individual characteristics. This paper investigates the quality of sustainable tourism in a small island, namely, Kish in the South

Mona Erfanian Salim Today, tourism has an important role in the development of many Small Islands all over the world because of their economic dependency on tourism. The sustainable tourism has established in order to balance between the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of development in these Islands. This paper attempts to clarify that urban