Journal of Urban Studies on Space and Place

Abstract The chaos of urban facades in the current state of Tehran is exposed to the eyes of citizens. To tackle this problem, many articles and books have been written and several national conferences have been held. With the initial search and review of these studies, it can be seen that most of them focus on the desirable quality of urban facades and have neglected the facade production process and its procedural dimensions. In this regard, the main goal of this article is to identify and explain the position of human resources and organizations involved in the process of constructing urban views and analyzing procedural challenges in it. For this purpose, in this article, articles related to urban views in Iran were extracted by reviewing databases such as Civilica, Mogiran, Nurmagz, Jihad Academici, and Google search engines. In the next step, considering the titles of the articles and reviewing their abstracts, the articles related to the process of facade production were separated and evaluated. In addition to categorizing the content of related articles and evaluating and analyzing their content, a questionnaire with open and closed questions has been randomly completed in Tehran to complete and stabilize the obtained information. The obtained information is analyzed by methods such as exploratory factor analysis, PCA method, and Friedman’s test is used to prioritize these factors. Also, the thematic analysis method and the usage of Atlas Ti9 software are used to analyze the open questions. Finally, concerning the analysis, human resources and organizations involved in the process of constructing urban facades and their areas in three dimensions, management-executive (urban management and executives and contractors), cultural-educational (people and designers), and economic (investors) have been categorized and prioritized and the challenges related to each of the human factors and intervening organizations have been identified separately.

Abstract Urban spaces have always been considered as a milestone of planning and thought to the city. The role of these spaces in the pandemic was doubled in importance. The experience of quarantine and observance of social distancing were among the issues that led to a rethinking of how urban spaces were formed in line with the new conditions that COVID-19 and its new strains imposed on citizens’ life. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to provide a framework for creating resilient and flexible urban spaces in accordant period after COVID-19 pandemic. This scientific research is reviewed and based on the review of experiences and literature, three basic concepts of “urban spaces, resilience and flexibility as well as the effects and influences of two sides of urban spaces and covid-19 pandemic” have been developed. Therefore, based on the researchers conducted from the beginning of the pandemic, selected resources and studies were carried out. The findings show that increasing resilience in urban spaces is possible by explaining medium, medium and long-term approaches through combined attention to physical and non-physical factors such as social, behavioral, economic, etc. and suggestions are suggested to achieve this according to the underlying conditions of Iran.
 

Abstract One of the challenging issues in the city of Tabriz is the opening of many roads in the urban context, which are usually implemented with the aim of increasing the access of citizens to new roads and solving the traffic problem. The current research with the aim of “evaluating the consequences of the implementation of path-breaking projects in the urban context of Tabriz” wants to answer the question that “to what extent the implementation of path-breaking projects in the last two decades as a strategy and development path of the city of Tabriz has led to urban justice and what are the consequences for Has it brought the citizens and the urban context of Tabriz?” The research method used was the descriptive-analytical method and the method of collecting information was library and field. The results of the research show that those streets that are defined and widened based on the logic of the growth and movement of the city and based on the guidelines that fit its genome, have been more successful than the one-dimensional and imposed streets. In the city of Tabriz, the widening of streets and passages such as Tarbiat, Raste Kuche and Imam Khomeini in accordance with the rules of the city have created relatively successful and acceptable spaces in the city. In connection with incomplete road construction projects, municipalities can use some scoring tools to complete construction measures more quickly. Also, due to the wide existence of valuable fabric in Tabriz city, unfortunately, in some cases, due to the weakness of study and needs assessment and not considering all the aspects and consequences of the implementation of the plans, the road development projects have resulted in damage to the cultural and historical heritage of the city.

Abstract Paying attention to the urban landscape is always one of the most important research and executive concerns of researchers and experts in the field of architecture and urban planning, considering that it includes the most visual communication of citizens with the city and transmits a lot of information from the surrounding environment to people. Today, due to the lack of coherent standards and accurate and correct supervision of its implementation in the field of urban facade design and implementation, we are facing a kind of visual turbulence and crisis in the landscape of urban facades. Therefore, by defining programs with the framework of managing and rearrangement ugly urban landscapes, by the urban management, it is tried to take steps to improve the visual quality of these views with different solutions. Thus, according to the amount of intervention in the facade components in order to apply reforms in the form of renovation, rearrangement and trimming out of urban facades, in some cities, with the intervention of the municipality, executive measures have been taken in this regard. Hence, in this research, an attempt has been made to review one of the most recent experiences in this field in the city of Isfahan (Askariyeh and Alam ol-Hoda streets) in the form of a scientific and executive process, and to present the lessons learned from this experience. In general, this study seeks to find an answer to this question that: “what measures can be taken to improve the urban landscape of the existing urban facades? And then by introducing 10 scientific and executive steps in the project which is entitled “preparation of executive documents of the trimming out, renovation, rearrangement and monitoring of implementation”, the strategies obtained in the framework of its plan are presented as urban trimming out measures.

Abstract What this article follows is urban beautification planning. In fact, a processual, contextual and situational look at the praxis of beautification. A process that carries content, basis, and meaning in itself (and with itself) and a context that removes the act of beautification from a purely visual state and analyzes and recognizes it in intertwined and complicated economic, political, social, and cultural flows. A situation that transforms beauty into a state of continuous and inclusive beautifying with the praxis of beautification. So, by rejecting the topdown planning of beautification, with an existential- processuality basis of beauty, it proposes beautification with people and inside people in a dynamic and inexhaustible state. This effort can be considered as a new approach in removing urban ugliness that wants to plan such beautification.

Abstract Cinema, as one of the most important tools for creating narrative, abundantly uses the city space as a platform for its storytelling; because cinema inherently needs space, and it is only through the capacity of space that it can tell its story. Based on this principle, this study seeks to answer two central questions. First, in general, what are the characteristics of cities which represented in Iranian movies in terms of its audience, and second, what are the characteristics of the urban space in Isfahan which represented in Iranian movies. In order to answer these questions, qualitative method and interview technique were used. By conducting 12 interviews and achieving theoretical saturation, data coding was done and findings were analyzed. The findings indicated that the city represented in the cinema has characteristics such as “a turbulent, crowded and polluted space, A space with romantic fantasies; Expanded space in surface and height; A space with the possibility of secret appointments; The revealer space of class conflict; “ a space full of violence and insecurity But in relation to the representation of the city of Isfahan, features such as soothing, slow, historical, calm, with an old and enclosed body were mentioned, and is far from the existing reality.