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The Role of Women Management in Increasing the Quality of Urban Life

The Role of Women Management in Increasing the Quality of Urban Life

Erfanain Salim M Quality of life is a broad and complex concept that is influenced by social, cultural, economic, physical, and spatial factors. This article examines the role of women’s management in increasing the quality of urban life. The quality of life is evaluated in two ways: first, based on a person’s subjective and objective

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Improving Quality of Life through the Place Branding of the Lashkar-Abad Neighbourhood in Ahwaz

Improving Quality of Life through the Place Branding of the Lashkar-Abad Neighbourhood in Ahwaz (IRAN)

Erfanain Salim M Iran has many tourism assets in its cities which can be developed by place branding and destination marketing. Anousheh Street in the Lashkar Abad neighborhood of Ahwaz shows good practice in this field. It is a dynamic and active public space in a tourism context that has become well-known in spite of

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Chief-Editor note, Abadi

Chief-Editor note, Abadi

The government’s response to the challenges of inefficiency in cities starts in the years after World War II and the formal formation of urban planning knowledge in universities. This has evolved in a process arising from global changes and evolution in ideas, methods, and techniques until today and has reached an approach called urban regeneration.

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An overview of the current situation of the concept of

An overview of the current situation of the concept of “urban regeneration”: from content to practice

Erfanain Salim M Urban regeneration policies in Iran have been formed to improve the quality of urban life. These policies, concerning local characteristics, emphasize the improvement and renovation of urban tissues. One of the main goals of these policies is to improve the quality of urban life, which in practice is often measured by quantitative

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Selecting Principles of Sustainable Tourism in Small Island Developing for Kish Island

Selecting Principles of Sustainable Tourism in Small Island Developing for Kish Island

Mona Erfanian Salim Kish Island is one of the most important sea and beach recreational holiday and tourism destination in Iran. As a Small Island, Kish Island‘s current development and tourism practices may not be sustainable in the longer term. Small Islands are supposed to follow sustainable tourism principles through balancing between environmental and economic

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Towards a Happy Island: Developing Tourists’ Needs in Urban Open Public Space in Kish Island

Ali Afshar,  Mona Erfanian Salim This paper studies the assumed relationship between tourists’ needs and the concept of happy city in the urban open public space (UOPS) in Kish Island as the most favorite tourism destination of Iran in the Persian Gulf. The main research question is “how answering to the tourists’ needs in UOPS

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in Interfacing between Urban Design and Tourism Knowledge

Developing “Maslow’s Human Needs Hierarchy Models” in Interfacing between Urban Design and Tourism Knowledge

Mona Erfanian Salim Today, urban open spaces play a key role in meeting tourists’ needs while urban tourism is one of the most important types of tourism in the world. In a sustainable order, to meet tourists’ needs in an urban open space, it is essential to describe tourist needs theories in detail based on

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Urban Tourism-Urban Open Public Space

Urban Tourism-Urban Open Public Space: An Opportunity for Sustainable Tourism

Mona Erfanian Salim Despite the economic importance of tourism for communities, its negative impacts have caused a general agreement on the essential of “sustainable tourism development” in recent decades. Meanwhile, along with the increase in intellectual claims of urban development, urban design is becoming more fascinating in this field, and it sets in the concerns

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