A Qualitative Approach Towards the Implementation of Urban Sustainability in Tehran

Subject Areas : Space Ontology International Journal

Soheil Arabi ¹ , Mahmood Golabchi ² , Mehrab Darabpour ³

1 - Faculty of Architecture, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 - Faculty of Architecture, university of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-04-21 Accepted : 2020-06-11 Published : 2020-03-01

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