Investigating Urban Expansion and Its Drivers in Ardebil

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Haleh Hoseinpour ¹ , Esfandiar Zebardast ² , Hamid Majedi ³

1 - Professor, Urban planning Department, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Art & Architecture
3 - Professor, Urban planning Department, Faculty of Art and Architecture,Science and Research Branch,Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2016-03-09 Accepted : 2017-09-12 Published : 2017-12-01

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