housing

1. Economic dimensions: principles and criteria of affordable housing construction, Urban land and housing, Housing investment model, Housing supply and demand

2. Social dimensions: Lifestyle and housing, Security and housing, Social resilience and housing 

3. Environmental dimensions: Energy and housing, New technologies and housing, Climate and housing

4. Management dimensions: Government policies and urban housing, housing Urban development plans, Urban laws and regulations and housing, Urban diplomacy and housing, Foresight of urban housing in Iran

5. Physical-spatial dimensions: housing and Islamic-Iranian architecture, spatial distribution of residential uses in urban development plans, Rural housing in Metropolitan Area, New cities and towns and housing, Physical resilience and housing, Urban land and housing 

Sustainable Urban regeneration

1. Economic and cultural regeneration (innovative and leading models in empowerment, financing and investment-government, government and institutional sectors)

2. Approach and patterns of urban revitalization (restoration, renovation, improvement and urban reconstruction)

3. Institutional-managerial development and implementation of urban governance in urban regeneration programs

4. Capacities and opportunities for revitalizing historical, worn out and inefficient urban tissues

5. Pathology of the rules and regulations of revitalization of historical, worn out and inefficient urban tissues 

6. Evaluation of urban regeneration policies in Iran

Special problems of Mashhad metropolis

1. Innovative solution to the urban problems of Mashhad Metropolis

2. Justice in the distribution of urban services and facilities

3. Stabilization of Mashhad Municipality's income and financing of urban development projects

4. The model of public-private partnership in financing urban projects

5. Making smart the provision of services in the municipality

6. Urban identity 

7. Urban transportation

8. Resilience and crisis management

9. Religious tourism and pilgrimage

10. Foresight of the expansion of inefficient urban textures