Mehdi Alidadi

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between the pattern of built-up areas and land surface temperature in a semi-arid urban environment was investigated, where spectral and landscape indices, such as Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), NDBI, Shannon diversity index (SHDI), Landscape Shape Index (LSI), Fractal Dimension Index (FRAC), and Landscape Division Index (DIVISION), along with morphological variables (parcel density, housing density, road density, Floor area ratio, Mass-Space proportion, and distance to CBD) were applied to

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the role of technology in crisis management in the last two decades and provided appropriate policy recommendations for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and showed that different technology-driven policies and actions enable crisis management, enhance community well-being, and increase urban resilience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the level of monocentricity and primacy of principal city in Tehran Metropolitan Region (TMR), in addition to sub-centering and level of polycentrism.

TL;DR: In this paper , a systematic literature review of papers indexed on the Web of Science and Scopus was conducted to find out how the built environment and human factors have affected the transmission of COVID-19 on different scales, including country, state, county, city, and urban district.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the spatial distribution of employment in Tehran metropolitan region as one of the most populated regions in West Asia and found that the main core lost its importance with the passage of time.