Urban and Regional Development Planning
ّFaezeh Mohammadi sheshkal; Mohammad shaikhi
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In many informal settlements, the quality of urban spaces is severely compromised by a lack of planning and attention to the needs of residents. This has led to numerous challenges across various domains, including health, safety, economy, and the environment. Placemaking, as a novel approach to urban ...
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In many informal settlements, the quality of urban spaces is severely compromised by a lack of planning and attention to the needs of residents. This has led to numerous challenges across various domains, including health, safety, economy, and the environment. Placemaking, as a novel approach to urban space design and management, offers a promising avenue for enhancing the quality of life in informal settlements.This research adopted an interpretive and qualitative approach, employing a case study design and a descriptive-analytical method. The study population consisted of academic experts, community facilitators, and urban managers, who were purposively selected using a snowball sampling technique. Initially, a meta-synthesis method was used to identify the components of placemaking. Subsequently, challenges were explored through observations and in-depth semi-structured interviews with experts. Data analysis was conducted using MAXQDA software, with coding based on managerial, social, economic, and physical dimensions.The findings revealed that placemaking is a time-consuming and participatory process that requires coordination among stakeholders, adequate infrastructure, and a comprehensive understanding of the benefits of placemaking, given its novelty among both officials and the local community. Additionally, securing financial resources and building trust emerged as significant challenges. The insights from this research can serve as a guiding document for managers and community facilitators in their efforts to improve the quality of urban spaces in informal settlements.
Urban and Regional Development Planning
Seyedeh Maryam Mahmoudi; Mohammadtaghi Karami; Bagher Saroukhani
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Cultural policy is a modern concept expanded from the idea of social citizenship. The state, market, and civil organizations such as municipalities are the main institutions that intervene in setting cultural policies. Municipalities in Iran are considered as state organizations. Tehran municipality ...
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Cultural policy is a modern concept expanded from the idea of social citizenship. The state, market, and civil organizations such as municipalities are the main institutions that intervene in setting cultural policies. Municipalities in Iran are considered as state organizations. Tehran municipality has a distinctive political status that makes it an influential cultural force who carries the duty of implementing cultural policies within urban life. The current research applies Foucault’s critical discourse analysis for the study of the cultural policies under Gholamhossein Karbaschi (1368-1377/1990-1998) to answer the question of “what were the discursive characteristics of Tehran municipality’s cultural policies in this period and how did they reflect the social context of the time?”. Having distinguished three minor discourses of state cultural policies and poverty eradication as part of the revolutionary discourse, the prospect for the globalized city and confrontation with the market cultural policies referred to as ‘cultural invasion’, in addition to the national-cultural identity and civil-communicative cultural policies, the post-war Tehran municipality can be characterized by the ideas of modernization, construction, and development. Modernization defines management as a top-down process, mainly set in motion by the will-power of technocrats; powerful managers who are supported by the structure, pay the least attention to the socio-cultural contexts, and demonstrate restricted field management. Such a management method and understanding of the city ends in a type of authoritative or market-based cultural policy that is mainly defined with putting culture only in second place in relation to the market and politics.
Urban and Regional Development Planning
Mohamad Nouripour sedehi; Hasan Ahmadi
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As a result of rapid changes in the urban spaces, retails have become vulnerable. The importance of this research is to identify the damages caused by changes in jobs, and to study their effects on the urban environment and the lives of citizens. in order to provide appropriate strategies and solutions ...
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As a result of rapid changes in the urban spaces, retails have become vulnerable. The importance of this research is to identify the damages caused by changes in jobs, and to study their effects on the urban environment and the lives of citizens. in order to provide appropriate strategies and solutions to alleviate and reduce the damages caused by changes in urban retails. for this purpose, the content analysis method has been used and information has been collected through semi-structured interviews, field observations, and document studies. In total, 67 damages resulting from changes in retailing have been identified in 20 concepts and 6 dimensions (in coding levels). Based on this categorization, a total of 6 strategies and 48 solutions have been suggested to reduce the damages, which can be used in urban plans, especially in the distribution and dispersion of land uses and commercial activities in cities. It is also suggested that a spatial perspective should replace a coercive and authoritarian perspective. Under such conditions, it is possible to reduce the damages caused by changes in businesses in cities through the development of democratic programs, such as neighborhood planning and urban retail planning.
Urban and Regional Development Planning
Pegah Kheirollahi; Hamid Dehghani
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Urban riots are violent, sudden, and economically willing-based protests that are usually based on occupying urban spaces as the main context of demonstrations. The urban spatial spaces including the consumption spaces, the power spaces, and the network spaces are both instruments and goals of urban ...
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Urban riots are violent, sudden, and economically willing-based protests that are usually based on occupying urban spaces as the main context of demonstrations. The urban spatial spaces including the consumption spaces, the power spaces, and the network spaces are both instruments and goals of urban riots. Current research tried to analyze the spatial aspects of the greatest urban rebellions that have occurred in post-Islamic revolutionary Iran and it was done in 2024. The research data is the secondary historical documents and the research method is the Boolean technique. The results of the Boolean matrix indicate that when the cause of grievance is struggling for urban settlements and the logic of protest activism is vandalism solely, the domain of urban uprising will be local. if dissatisfaction ignoring their cause, is exaggerated through the network interaction spaces and the Carnivalian activism is widespread in addition to vandalistic actions, the domain of urban riot will be expanded at the national level.
Urban and Regional Development Planning
sobhan yahyaei; Moahmmad Mahdi Mowlaei; Reyhaneh Keshtkaran
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This article deals with the analysis of urban actors in social media and the role of these media in constructing the concept of the city and producing urban space. In this research, the analysis of Tehran as a complex metropolis has been done using Henri Lefebvre's "theory of space". For this purpose, ...
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This article deals with the analysis of urban actors in social media and the role of these media in constructing the concept of the city and producing urban space. In this research, the analysis of Tehran as a complex metropolis has been done using Henri Lefebvre's "theory of space". For this purpose, after quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content of social media posts (Twitter and Instagram) related to the city of Tehran, using Mactor software, a prospective analysis was made about the relationships of the actors in this field. 10 groups of urban actors and four topics of urban goals and conflicts were identified and their relationships were determined in two matrixes of actor-actor and actor-goal. According to the findings, the group "Citizen and Non-Famous", "Mainstream Media", "Real Urban Management", "Social and Political Activist" and "Legal Urban Management" are the reinforcing and dominant actors with the most influence among the groups. Also, the three main players in the field of urban management, i.e. the accounts of "legal urban management", "actual urban management" and "urban management media" have the most convergence and considering the small distance between "councilors and citizen institutions" and the aforementioned groups, this group can be considered as an ally for the urban management complex. On the other hand, "social and political activists" have the most divergence among other actors.
Urban and Regional Development Planning
Elham Keshtkar; jamal soheili; sheida khansari
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The garden is a combination of frozen and non-vegetable; Therefore, it is a living work that represents the culture of each nation and the climatic conditions of its birthplace. During its experimental life, the Iranian garden has all the characteristics of a phenomenon: it accepts transformation; transforms; ...
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The garden is a combination of frozen and non-vegetable; Therefore, it is a living work that represents the culture of each nation and the climatic conditions of its birthplace. During its experimental life, the Iranian garden has all the characteristics of a phenomenon: it accepts transformation; transforms; It generates experience from within itself; And apart from these, it affects the environment and the overall human environment. The Iranian garden, as one of the manifestations of world gardening, while having a specific pattern, has many variations in its components. This diversity with the simplicity of the form and pattern of the Iranian garden has caused the emergence of complex concepts and different functions. On the other hand, visibility, one of the most important concepts and features of Iranian-Islamic architecture, has always been the focus of researchers and designers. The issue of prohibition of visibility emphasizes on keeping the inner space safe from the eyes and visibility of foreigners and can be examined with the tools of "visibility control" and "distanceBased on this, the main objective of the research is to explain the spatial effect of the physical system of the Safavid garden, emphasizing the visibility of the interior space of the garden on the behavior of the human space. For this purpose, the present research has been done in the first step by collecting information from the studies of libraries and theoretical literature and finally developing a measurement model, and in the second step,
