Urban design guidance of smart growth and their application in Iran

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Nowadays increasing growth ofurbanization andUrbanismhas led tomany problemsforurbanites. Along this problems, the idea of urban sustainable development and coordinate with specific approaches emerged as new urbanism and smart growth that with its principle giving new life to the cities. The smart growth is one of the newest approach of urban planning and urban design, that providing strategies and policiesin urban planning and urban design to create optimal space and urban achieve maximum quality.Smart growth can oversee regional planning, urban design, physical design, architecture, environmental design as landscape, which represents its influence on the future of human social. In condition that political, social and economical problems are vitals, this approach concerns on designing, with this belief that design can have an important role in solving problems that government cannot solve them only with the money and plan. The purpose of this paper is recognition the mission of smart growth in urban design and introducing the urban design documents of smart growth and expresses the structure of each of them and their usage in Iran. This research with descriptive- analytical method is in trying to find the main structure of smart growth and defining the urban design documents of smart growth and In addition, Recommends the use of smart growth guidance documents in Iran.The results of this research show that the smart growth guidance are generallyenvisioned to facilitate theplanning and designofanyspace,building,and street, and they are means to achieve proper management of sustainable urban development and compact urban design with maximum quality of urban space. Because the model of smart growth offers principles and strategies in various geographical levels, Can conclude documents guiding of this approach are "location-based" and The use of these documents in urban development plans in Iran Can provide the realize of sustainable urban development vision, in the other hands, According to the form and function of all components of the city wiil be possible.

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