Mohammad Taghi Pirbababei; Valiollah Rabieifar; Masoud Asadi Mahal Chali
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The idea of creative city is a new and effective strategy to fundamental development of cities and improvement of environment and life quality of citizens. Such an idea can be recommended as a sustainable strategy for all metropolitans of the country for all eras. It would always be a changing idea according ...
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The idea of creative city is a new and effective strategy to fundamental development of cities and improvement of environment and life quality of citizens. Such an idea can be recommended as a sustainable strategy for all metropolitans of the country for all eras. It would always be a changing idea according to its innovative and creative nature as well as new activities and functions of the cities. Since, the formation and growth of creative city strategy depends on the historical and cultural context of cities, the Iranian metropolitans, because of their diverse environments and cultures have a good potential to move towards global creative cities. The present study aimed at reviewing and monitoring the urban structure of eight metropolitans of Iran from a creative city strategy viewpoint. The applied model is an integrated model of VIKOR-AHP. Based on methodology and nature, the present research is a descriptive-analytic-comparative and based on aim, it is an applicable research. Findings of the present study indicate that according to five-fold urban creative structure; metropolitans of Tehran, Isfahan and Tabriz locate at the top of ranking scale with QIs of 0.11, 0.47 and 0.56, respectively. These figures are 0.77, 0.88 and 0.90 for the last three metropolitans of Karaj, Ahwaz, and Qom, respectively. The results show that based on socio-cultural and economic-functional structures of urban creativity, there is an unbalanced and unfair distribution among metropolitans in terms of economic, social and human resources. Also, unlike the availability of potentials and capacities of urban creativity indexes, most of them are not studied and haven’t yet been applied and executed.
Seyyed Mehdi Mousakazemi; Esmaeil Aliakbari; Parviz Arani
Abstract
In compare to driving, cycling and other transportation modes, people pay more attention to their surrounding and connect with the environment while they are walking. Therefore, urban elements closed to the walking paths should be considered as very important elements. Pedestrians, while talking and ...
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In compare to driving, cycling and other transportation modes, people pay more attention to their surrounding and connect with the environment while they are walking. Therefore, urban elements closed to the walking paths should be considered as very important elements. Pedestrians, while talking and shopping, accept more impacts from the environment and its characters than any other occasions. Separating the pedestrian spaces from roadways and streets can decrease the effects of noise and environmental pollutions and finally improve the issue of commuting in the city. The present study focuses on designing and constructing five pedestrian zones in metropolitan of Tehran and investigates their functions on urban structure. In the present study, attention is paid to five pedestrian zones of Tehran metropolitan to investigate their effects on urban structure. To do this, the emphasis of the present study is on changes occurred in three criteria including: “urban commuting space”, “green space and environmental health”, and “urban identity”, after construction of the pedestrian zones. Main required data were collected from the questionnaire designed and completed by the local businessmen community and pedestrian zone users. Field and documentary data were used as well. The sample included 350 questionnaires selected by Cochran formula. The results indicated that the studied areas have already moved towards a homogeneous situation due to the construction of pedestrian zones. Also, in one-way analysis of variance, five pedestrian zones showed a significant difference of improvement among the criteria, which means that there is a functional difference between some of them.
