Rural Growth and Decay: Analysis of Physical-Spatial Transformation of Rural Area in Iran (Case Staudy: Kahak Area of Qom Province)

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Dewey Thorbeck ¹ , Ali Asghar Isalou ² , Mostafa Bayat ³

1 - Professor , Center for Rural Design, University of Minnesota, United States of America.
2 - Departman urban planning, Faculty of Art and architecture, University of Kurdistan, Sanndaj, Iran.
3 - Department of Geography and rural planning, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2013-12-29 Accepted : 2014-01-01 Published : 2014-03-01

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