The Impact of Culture on City Structure

This article is aimed at investigating the impact of culture on city structure in the former socialist countries, the western capitalism and Iran which has been carried out through “descriptive- analytical” methods. The former socialist culture caused development in changing eastern block city structures-form, place, texture, economic efficiency, and the city structure aspects were based on population congestion, access to land, and lack of special differences between social groups and emphasis on optimized especial services and small scale structures.West shaped cities before the twentieth contury according to its cultural standards (religious, linguistic, racial, classwise and patterns) different shapes of feudalistic cities, Middle Ages, pre-industrial and industrial Later different cultural schools (Modernism, Post Modernism) established especial forms of cities. The pre-Islamic culture in Iran created especial forms of Castles, city castles dominated by social systems and Persian, Helenic, and Parthian patterns so that such structures has class appearance. After the arrival of Islam, culture was affected by Islamic principles and elements, and districts and houses were built according to Islamic patterns.