A master plan for low carbon and resilient housing: The 35ha area in Hashtgerd New Town, Iran

Seelig, Sebastian

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2011.06.001

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“…This scheme is based on Cooperative Economics Law of Iran, and as well inspired by principles of 43 and 44 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran (Arvand Kalhor et al, 2013). The "Mehr" housing scheme, launched in 2007, is aimed to achieve these goals: providing housing for homeless people with priority to low-income strata; and provision of residential land with the help of Housing and Urban Development Organization for members in the form of 99-year lease contract (Seelig, 2011;Iran's Ministry of Cooperation, 2008). In the recent decades, "Mehr housing projects have been considered as serious government policies in the housing sector (Research Center of Iran's economy, 2002).…”

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Challenges of Coordination in Provision of Urban Infrastructure for New Residential Areas: The Iranian Experience

Yazdani

Dola

Azizi

et al. 2014

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Urban infrastructure provides foundations for modern civil community and enhances quality of life. Coordination between different urban infrastructure agencies plays a pivotal role in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development ISSN 2164-7682 2015 www.macrothink.org/emsd 49 the success of provision of these critical facilities. In turn, identifying and managing interdependency between different urban infrastructures is a key issue in establishing robust coordination in the process of the provision of urban infrastructure. To this end, the present paper, by reviewing the pertinent literature and investigating the current coordination context of urban infrastructure provision in Iran, provides a conceptual framework for identifying the roots of coordination challenges in this salient domain of urban knowledge. The interdependency between urban infrastructure and complexity of the urban infrastructure provision, two significant features of urban infrastructure provision, are two highlighted points in the framework.

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Challenges of Coordination in Provision of Urban Infrastructure for New Residential Areas: The Iranian Experience

Yazdani

Dola

Azizi

et al. 2014

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“…Grace reported that Canadian Federal Government's spending on infrastructure projects is expected to be more than C$180 billion over 10 years (Grace, 2013). During the 1960s-2000s, Iran's housing policy has been the implementation of big projects such as new town buildings and affordable mass apartment buildings (Seelig, 2011;Riazi and Emami, 2018). At present, Iran has no CDSs for the Iranian built environments, housing and urban infrastructure (Tilaki and Hedayati, 2015;Shahraki, 2019b).…”

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Home Building and demands of the population in Ramshar New Town

Shahraki¹

2021

J. Geogr. Reg. Plann.

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This paper studies the housing and town building policies. It analyzes reasons that new towns failed to achieve their strategic goals. This paper addresses the question of why the new towns are not functional. The research methods are classic linear programming, a benchmarking technique, and a case study strategy. The benchmarking procedure compares the existing urban development pattern to optimal building models. This study explores fundamental theories concerning housing and urban development, proportional to the inhabitants' requirements, lifestyles, and livelihoods. The purpose of this study is to emphasize the natural and social characteristics of each region, as well as the livelihood needs of indigenous peoples in housing and urban policies. The case study of this research uses a market analysis procedure to discover rational and optimal housing policies. Finally, this paper suggests a feasible programming model that changes the present unsuccessful ways toward improved methods of housing policies. The model predicts required urban spaces in the new towns. It recommends design procedures based on the real needs of local people. The presented model of this research has a local application, but it is also helpful for other new urban development projects everywhere.

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“…Studies showed that urban form and design needs to consider existing urban fabric and conditions and available resources to optimise its adaptive capacity. For example, a master plan in Iran presented planning strategies including culturally adopted building typologies, public transportation and dense mix-used neighbourhoods (Seelig, 2011). In Greece, Yiannakou and Salata (2017) showed how changes in urban planning reflecting Greek existing urban forms and locally available resources for construction contributed to better adaptation to climate change and to urban heat island effect.…”

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The architecture of resilience in rural towns

Dupré

Bischeri

2019

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Purpose Whilst resilience has been a critical academic topic and worldwide issue for many decades, not all territories have been equally investigated. In addition, the role of architecture in contributing to community resilience against climate change has been overlooked. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to shed light on what is the current state of the art of community resilience in rural towns and what type of architectural strategies has been recognised for facilitating resilience. Design/methodology/approach The study has combined literature review and architectural project review. Findings There are four major findings to this research that could impact policy making and decision making if implemented at different institutional levels. First, there is an evident increased academic interest on this topic. Second, there is a need for a greater consultation among the different stakeholders that participate in the planning and implementation of the future-focused adaptation strategies. Third, the potential for the architectural discipline to play an active role in facilitating and ameliorating community resilience has been identified. Fourth, there is a need to integrate placed-based and identity-related factors/components into a community’s framework for resilience amelioration. Research limitations/implications One limitation is the fact that the literature review investigated only English literature. Also, the review relied mostly on online findings and, for the good-practice review, did not take into consideration direct local knowledge, which would have required travelling the globe and all of Australia in order to collect feedback. Thus, some projects and literature might have been missed. Originality/value The value of this research is to compare findings from literature review (scholar activities) and best practices (architectural activities). In combining the two aspects, it merges a gap in research.

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A master plan for low carbon and resilient housing: The 35ha area in Hashtgerd New Town, Iran

Cited by 25 publications

References 8 publications

Challenges of Coordination in Provision of Urban Infrastructure for New Residential Areas: The Iranian Experience

Challenges of Coordination in Provision of Urban Infrastructure for New Residential Areas: The Iranian Experience

Home Building and demands of the population in Ramshar New Town

The architecture of resilience in rural towns

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