A Review of the Neighborhood Conflict Transition and Its Application in the Neighborhoods of the Iranian-Islamic City

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Humanity Science Faculty, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

2 M.S in Geography and Urban Planning, Humanity Science Faculty, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

Abstract

Background: The history of cities as a matter of the short stature and silent evidence is full of works and layers that have been gradually hidden under the new layers or have been exposed to erosion and change due to the various factors over time. However, the story of the evolution of cities and their important and significant elements has been intertwined in these layers. Meanwhile, the neighborhoods in the traditional Iranian-Islamic cities have a role beyond just a spatial area which includes the place of residence and the activity of a group of citizens. Also, they have a defined position in the hierarchy of the development and management of the urban affairs and their nature have been consolidated in the context of time with a new perspective.
Objectives: The present paper intended to formulate the problem of understanding the neighborhood as a concept with a spatial-social load in its historical layer (Islamic period) and to research the inter-neighborhood conflict of the Iranian city at the Islamic Period.
Methodology: Achieving the appropriate answer in this paper has been done with describing and analyzing the collected documentary and library data. In addition to understanding the neighborhood's conflict in the city of the Islamic period, the mixture of this mental tendency towards the city can also help to understanding the neighborhood's transformationalism in the contemporary Iranian city.
Results: As the extract of the background governing the transformation of the concept of the inter-neighborhood conflict in this paper shows, the change in the concept of the neighborhood conflict in the ancient and pre-Islamic periods is linked with blood, vessel and root. During the Islamic period up to the contemporary era, ideology, religion and ethnicity became important, and with the beginning of the modernization and the arrival of capitalism to Iran, the economy and money became the superior power separating groups from each other and they displayed the neighborhood disputes.
Conclusion: The neighborhood conflict which used to be a function of the social and cultural factors such as ethnicity, race, language, sect, religion, etc., nowadays has become a function of the material and economic factors and it has given rise to the city's production and consumption authority among some neighborhood pixels.

Highlights

The urban fluid differentiation is essentially an undeniable urban reality, and its conceptual transformation becomes meaningful considering the productive forces, causer and influential on it such as ethnicity, religion, wealth, class, and even the urban symbols.

The neighborhood conflict has a subordinate, pluralistic, and multi-layered state, and presenting a logical judgment on it depends on a deep reading of the rules governing a hypertext which is tied to the semantic and spiritual characteristics of its actors and agents.

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  • Receive Date: 08 July 2019
  • Revise Date: 04 March 2020
  • Accept Date: 08 April 2020

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