Recognition of the Urban Public Realms Capacity in Improving the Social Interaction by Grounded Theory Case Study: Mashhad Metropolitan

Urban public realms are the spaces for presence of citizens with different social behaviors. It means that they are the basis of all urban social spaces and none of urban society’s functions are possible without them. So, they have an important role in quality of life and welfare of the citizens and it's essential to pay attention to their quality in urban development planning process. The major concern of this paper is to study urban public realms quality and facilitate social interaction in public realms of multicultural cities. So, it has utilized to Grounded theory to study the behavioral pattern of Mashhad metropolitan public realms. Investigation of Mashhad public realms indicates that they have been able to create spaces that are accepted by different social groups. It refers to the importance of the capacities of the urban public realms for the presence of the people and the desire to interact to each other. The paradigm model of the relationship between concepts and categories and the results of one-way ANOVA show that interventional factors are effective in the tendency to participate in public realms and social interactions to others. These intervener factors include age, gender and level of individual awareness of the environment and also the purpose of visiting public realms.