Recognizing the place of cultural factors in regeneration old and historic neighborhoods of cities (Bojnourd Pay_Toop Case Study).

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Development, Islamic Art University of Tabriz

2 Tabriz Islamic Art University

Abstract

Background: Historical contexts as a valuable legacy and representing the identity of the city, today face numerous issues due to their inattention to the cultural, social and historical contexts of contemporary interventions. And the old before any intervention and finding a proper link between these physical and spatial dimensions is necessary.
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to recognize the role of cultural factors in regeneration old and historic neighborhoods of cities.
Method: This study is a descriptive-analytical one and library and field survey method was used to collect data.
Result: In this research, after gaining the necessary theoretical knowledge from the study of theoretical foundations and formulation of cultural principles and paradigms and different aspects of culture-based recreation, and studying relevant past experiences, the examples in the sample We identified the case study. We prepared 30 questionnaires for our sample and analyzed the data in SPSS. The questionnaires were also extracted from some of the existing cultural potentials.
Conclusion: We have thus devised a way of extracting and applying these cultural principles and concepts in recreating a concrete example of a multicultural society. And finally, we explain the strategies and how cultural factors are realized in recreation.
Highlight:
• Reconstruction of culture-based, especially in multi-cultural neighborhoods, given the existing cultural and ethnic diversity as a potential for the formation of different spaces appropriate to specific cultural events and unique activities in accordance with the place. It can be the most appropriate approach to improving the quality of life of residents and also the economic prosperity of the neighborhood.
• Reading the concept of culture and getting acquainted with its vast dimensions, as well as understanding how to extract ideas and cultural principles that regulate the body and space and using it in the process of recreating culture-building, can be an important step in developing unique patterns. It should be indigenous, which seeks to establish more and more harmony of body and space with the background culture.

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Urban Planning Knowledge
Volume 5, Issue 4
December 2021
Pages 239-260

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  • Receive Date: 24 April 2020
  • Revise Date: 18 June 2020
  • Accept Date: 15 March 2021

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