Strategic Planning to Reduce the Vulnerability of Historical Textures Case study: Historical Texture of Yazd City

This research aims to develop vulnerability criteria and indicators and to identify vulnerable points at the surface of the tissue to prevent and reduce the risk of earthquakes in the historical context of Yazd. Yazd city is one of the cities of the country that has a well-worn and historically valuable texture and is always exposed to natural and human crises. The main features of this texture are structural instabilities and a series of physical, motor, environmental, economic and managerial failings that require planning to reduce vulnerability to earthquake crises. he type of researchis applied and its method is descriptive-analytical. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics methods and network analysis and swot methods are used to formulate strategic planning. The results of the network analysis model show that physical indices such as low passage widths, building age, demolition, building quality, building density, separation area, type of materials, number of floors with the value of 0.22 have the most role in injury Texture is susceptible to earthquake occurrence. Compared to the study of the planning process to reduce the vulnerability of the historical fabric of Yazd city, weaknesses and threats with coefficients of 9/41 and 8/36 have the highest amount of strengths and opportunities with coefficients of 7/13 and 6/ 54 have the lowest amount. According to this information, the historical context of Yazd city has numerous disadvantages (45.9%). This means that with the current planning process, more emphasis should be placed on retrofitting Existing buildings, providing adequate access to timely services in  ritical situations, allocating parts of the historical texture to open spaces for emergency accommodation and evacuation Critical event occurs.