| Atoosa Modiri (at_modiri@yahoo.com) |
| Architecture & urbanism, Azad, Olom va tahghighat |
| January, 2007 |
| master of architecture; phd of urbanism, professor assistant of architecture & art faculty, azad university, tehran markaz branch |
Abstract |
| Culture is the method of living, so every thing that related to human life is culture. The concept of culture used in this research is human wrights and social democracy. The main question is about asking the way interaction figuring in public space in historic setting. Therefore, the area of case study is Tehran historic settings, which contains the region 12, and part of 11 and 13. The main purpose of research is recognizing the cultural and social problem of urban space for converting to public sphere. Main question: What is the role of urban space in cultural development of historic setting? Main hypothese: If the urban space could change to public sphere, it would have the critical role in cultural development. It means that if public space could create the physical presence without social segregation and generates social – political action and figure out social communicative network, therefore it could have the role of public sphere. There are different attitudes about urban space, such as cultural development that is related to our perception of space. Therefore, we choose a social – place view, which contains two dimensions of space – physical and mental – and putting them together. This view helps us to recognize the structure of place and its effect on social context. So space have studied in three scale of personal space, encounter space and public sphere. The main concepts related to latter items are existence, communicative action and social act, crime and barbarian, social segregation and dissociation, and social capital. The methodology of research is testing theory and the techniques used for testing hypotheses are based on statistical models. Measurement’s Instruments are mostly qualitative and because of this the level of measurement are nominal and ordinal. Testing each hypothesis contains two parts. The part one is presenting descriptive statistics by cross tab, frequency, and explorer and descriptive cartographical model by using point density and network analysis in GIS. The part two is testing hypotheses by using statistical texts as, chi square, phi, Cramer’s V for nominal, and spearman’s correlation for ordinal. The conclusion of research shows that the public spaces which have been tested, need the people who could feel the coexistence of other people in space to generate social network. Public spaces should contain the people who present in spaces not only for labor and for work, but also for the action that interrelated the people who exist in space. At last, the historic context should have the background of public life and social capital to figuring democratic social in public space and existence of cultural-physical capital is not enough for cultural development. The result of research about second hypothesis shows that; social behavior and commercial treatment more than cultural industry figuring spaces and make the picture of space. It seems that the mental space that should has been shaped by intellectuals, has been lost and because of this cultural – physical elements or physical arts have not the potential of making space. The conclusion of research about third hypothesis shows that, crime is an important feature for making the picture of space; but it doesn’t reduce the safety of space and also the barbarian that contain unsocial behavior, more than crime reduce the symbolic accessibility. |
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