جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "مطالعات منطقه ای" در نشریات گروه "جغرافیا"

The approaches to spatial planning change as the societies are becoming more complex. These changes show up in an increasing diversity of activity and mobility patterns of individuals, households, social groups, institutions and organizations. So, as the relative importance of some concepts like “distance” and “movement” declines in developed network societies, the importance of other concepts, as time and time-space, increase. Delivering proper response on these issues implies the development of an adapted strategic planning capacity and a shift in planning style. Structural-Functional Dynamism (SFD), as a strategic approach to the organization of space at different levels of scale, tries in modern social geographic context, to define complex issues of spatial organization in less developed communities, seeking solutions for their related structural-functional deep-rooted problems. This paper based on a comparative study of two different areas, aims to appraise the sufficiency of this `alternative' strategic spatial planning approach.

The process of locating new cities includes regional studies, initial choice of a number of places, preparation of selection criteria, application of criteria on different places and choosing the best alternative, meaning the more appropriate place for the development of the new city. This locating has a direct effect on the success or failure of new cities and, since the place of the city has an effective role in attracting population or their absorption (assimilation) in different dimensions, the new cities that manage to accommodate for the population can achieve their aims. The locating of new cities has a direct relation to the intended aims of establishing these cities. In our country, locating of new cities has been usually carried out by the goal of absorbing the extra population of a mother-city, and the new cities whose locations have been determined around the country, are placed in connection with a mother-city. The locating of the new city of Sahand, the subject of discussion in the present paper, is in connection with a mother city (Tabriz) and with the aim of absorbing the overflow of that city’s population. The place of the new city of Sahand has been chosen without any regional view and merely by examination of a number of criteria.

In the past few years, the discovery and designing of small world and scale free model of networks has stimulated a great deal of interest in studying complex networks which has led to dramatic advances in this emerging and active field of research. In this regard networks are a way of mapping the interconnectivity of objects. In international relations these objects are regions. Therefore this framework can provide new and more general insight into the evolution of regional studies. In this regard regions are only one of the nodes that are linked to each other by communication and constitute a network. Principally regional study is one of the new issue areas in international relations that incrementally increase its importance. But regional order has been changed by density of communication in new international system. In new era, actors and elements of system are connected to each other by communication. Therefore the central issue is as to how we can analyze region and its processes. The present article addresses regional order in new international system and maintains that traditional paradigms are dysfunctional and should be substituted by network approach. Second section of article analyzes the network by cyclical theories: including world economy, transition of power, long cycle and hegemonic stability.