ISSN: 2717-4417
Urban Planning
The role of power in reproduction of informality in urban planning: discourse analysis of acquired rights in the revision of the Urban Renewal project in Samen District

Farshad Nourian; sara vosoughi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 25 May 2025

https://doi.org/10.22034/urbs.2025.141880.5073

Abstract
  A substantial body of informality literature has emphasized the pivotal role of state power in suspending the law. These studies focus on the idea of informality from above, portraying the state as a unified entity with significant control over society and viewing law as an objective and fixed concept ...  Read More

Urban Design
From Process review to product realization: towards a gradual approach to the urban design process

Farshad Nourian; Behnaz Aminzadeh; Mazyar Abaee

Volume 10, Issue 40 , November 2021, , Pages 3-14

https://doi.org/10.34785/J011.2021.464

Abstract
  Highlights The urban design process has a vital role in the implemented result of urban design projects.  Bridging the theory-practice in urban design needs a combination of the implementation phase in the design process. The gradual approach to the urban design process deals with a step-by-step ...  Read More

Urban Sustainability
Dimensions and Indicators of the Happy City in Mashhad’s Neighborhoods (Case Studies: Tabarsee Fareq Altahsilan Neighborhoods)

Farshad Noorian; reza ghazi; seyed sajad abdullahpur

Volume 9, Issue 36 , November 2020, , Pages 101-116

https://doi.org/10.34785/J011.2021.919

Abstract
  Concern for happiness and its strategic dimensions plays a key role in provision of desirable environment quality in urban neighborhoods, ignorance of which is an issue with which cities, metropolises such as Mashhad, Iran in particular, are faced as a requirement for man to achieve sustainable urban ...  Read More

Regional Planning
Spatial Realization of Fars province vision based on the causality of uncertainties

Farshad Noorian; Hamidreza Bahmanpour Khalesi

Volume 8, Issue 32 , November 2019, , Pages 105-116

https://doi.org/10.34785/J011.2019.530

Abstract
  An investigation of the documents on regional development in Fars Province, Iran shows that there is such a wide gap between the ideals mentioned in the plans and their potentials for realization that it has turned into a big challenge how to realize the spatial prospects of the development plans in ...  Read More

Urban Planning
Prioritizing of infill development strategies in urban areas transect zone (Case Study: District 6 of Mashhad)

Farshad Noorian; seyed sajad abdullahpur Razkenari; reza ghazi

Volume 7, Issue 28 , November 2018, , Pages 65-78

https://doi.org/10.34785/J011.2018.017

Abstract
  Mashhad megalopolis has experienced a rapid and dispersed physical development over the past decades. It has also witnessed problems such as environmental degradation, lack of attention to traditional patterns of the main urban fabric, ignorance of urban identity, etc. Meanwhile, there are abundant internal ...  Read More

Urban Planning
Exploring the Global Cities’ Outlook in Developing Countries: Critique of the Current Dominant Approaches toward an Alternative Conceptual Framework

Farshad Nourian; Parsa Arbab

Volume 6, Issue 22 , May 2017, , Pages 43-58

Abstract
  This research aims to explore the outlook of global cities in developing countries through the critical analysis. Global or globalizing cities have emerged in the developing countries during the past two decades. Some of the latest cases include Bangkok, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, ...  Read More

Urban Planning
Introducing the qualitative considerations in redevelopment of derelict areas and organizing them into a quality assessment framework (Case Study: Dooshan Tappeh Airpase)
Volume 4, Issue 15 , August 2015, , Pages 93-105

Abstract
  Redeveloping a brownfield land as an urban project,  needs some qualitative considerations due to their complex and multidimensional identity. Hitherto, experts of brownfield redevelopment sector have introduced many quantitative and qualitative considerations in their research and actions. The ...  Read More