Providing Empirical Suggestions for Rehabilitation of Deficient Urban Parks Based upon Users' Preferences

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Mohsen Goodarzi ¹ , Nafiseh Haghtalab ²

1 - Faculty Member, Department of Landscape Design, Malayer University, Iran
2 - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, USA

Received: 2014-12-03 Accepted : 2015-12-21 Published : 2016-02-01

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