Redesigning the Sidewalks Around Fatemi Square and Valiasr Street in Tehran in order to Improve the Sense of Belonging to the Place

Every place has its own soul and characteristics, based on which it expresses its special character. In fact, Human beings need to understand the sense of place in order to have an intimate interaction and identification with the place where a person lives. Due to the fact that Valiasr square is one of the oldest and crowded squares of Tehran, it has a great importance among urban public spaces of the city. Therefore, in this paper, the redesign of the sidewalk of this square has been investigated in order to improve the sense of place between Valiasr Square and Fatemi Street.

The current research is practical in terms of its purpose and in terms of mixed methods, it is a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis methods. This research has been done using the library-document method. The statistical population is the citizens of region 10 of Tehran and sample size is 384 people who were randomly attained using the Cochran formula. Data analysis has been done with SPSS and tests such as correlation, regression, table of coefficients, etc.

The results of the research show that the design of the sidewalk in this area, as the results of the research have also shown, can provide the means to improve the sense of belonging to the place among its citizens, because the sidewalk, due to its nature as a space Public is influenced by the body and activity of its surrounding environment and is formed according to the needs of each place.