Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2022): Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs

The Role of “Scale” on the Acceleration of Social Interaction in Urban Spaces

Kaveh Hajialiakbari (Shahid Beheshti University, Faculty of Architecture and urbanism, Tehran, Iran)
Mohammad Zare (University of Tehran, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran)
Mitra Karimi (University of Tehran, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran)



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Publish Date
01 Jan 2022

Abstract

Rehabilitation projects are interventions that can lead to the transformation of the socio-spatial structure of obsolescent neighborhoods. The main intention of such projects is the creation and/or improvement of social interactions after physical and functional interventions. Urban Renewal Organization of Tehran (UROT) is tasked with identification of target obsolescent neighborhoods, preparation of neighborhood development plans and implementation of rehabilitation projects to improve the quality of space and stimulate social interactions. In this paper, three urban spaces in different scales (“micro” for neighborhoods, “meso” for local and “macro” for trans-local scales), designed and implemented by UROT, were selected as a case study. By designing and filling a questionnaire and after analyzing research findings, the effect of the scale of the urban project on different activities was evaluated based on the Gehl model. Overall, in the expanded model based on the scale of space, an inverse ratio between the scale of space and both optional selective and social activities has been revealed.

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ijcua

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The International Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs (IJCUA) is the interdisciplinary academic, refereed journal which publishes two times a year by Anglo-American Publications LLC. IJCUA brings together all the theories, manifestoes and methodologies on contemporary urban spaces to raise the ...