Document Type : Research Paper
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PhD in Architecture, Director of the specialized service center for entrepreneurship development, empowerment and sustainable rural employment - ACECR Hamadan branch, Hamedan, Iran.
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PhD in Urban Planning, Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran
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PhD in Agricultural Extension and Education, Research assistant and Member of the specialized service center for entrepreneurship development, empowerment and sustainable rural employment- ACECR Hamadan branch, Hamedan, Iran.
10.22054/urdp.2026.84451.1693
Abstract
With the increasing population of elderly people in cities, paying attention to the quality of their spatial experience in urban environments has become an important necessity in urban planning and design.Parks are among the urban open spaces that the elderly often visit for leisure and walking. The present article aims to measure and evaluate the environmental components in the reading of urban spaces from the perspective of the elderly, after identifying the needs of the elderly in using urban spaces, including parks, using documentary studies and a survey method and preparing 350 questionnaires and using a t-test from the users of Hamedan People's Park. In this study, two objective factors including functional, environmental and accessibility factors and a subjective factor including perceptual factors, social identity, collective memories, sense of security and attachment to place were identified in the reading of urban spaces from the perspective of the elderly. Accordingly, among the objective factors, the elderly consider the existence of urban equipment, natural factors, and the use of sloping surfaces instead of stairs, and among the subjective factors, the existence of space for social interactions, the visibility of the space, the existence of collective spaces, and various activities in the space to be effective in using urban parks.
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