جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "زیبایی شناسی شهری" در نشریات گروه "هنر و معماری"

The importance of the “beautiful” goes even before the 5th century BC, when Plato suggests a difference between rational and logical facts, Noêta and the good, the sensitive, and the perceptible fact, Aisthèta. This phenomenon, which already existed among philosophers well before the appearance of its scientific definitions and of which societies had an intuitive perception, affected academic discourse through the course of the centuries and the experience of the various evolutions of societies: “the Science of the Sensitive”, definition proposed in the middle of the 17th century by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. The apprehension and understanding of the “beautiful”, therefore, began to evolve, and far from being limited to the discourse of art and concerning the subjective dimensions, this phenomenon reached an objective and pragmatic dimension. A concrete example of this mutation in urban literature would be the appearance of the expression “Urban Aesthetics”. Since the appearance of Roman cities and ancient Greece, societies have been familiar with aesthetically driven urban interventions or urban interventions with aesthetic aims. Measures such as the decoration of urban facades with a variety of patterns, the creation of framed visual perspectives, and the embellishment of urban public spaces with vegetation contribute to the aestheticization of cities. Urban management, using objective and sensitive tools on the one hand and relying on subjective and mental capacities on the other, seeks to achieve aesthetic goals in the urban context. However, what remains to be discussed is that in addressing this issue, urban management in Tehran has failed to recognize aesthetic capacities, potential, and needs. As a result, rather than being aligned with aesthetics, such methods seem to have confronted it.

Most of the city's viewing corridors induce a sense of confusion to the citizen of Tehran. In these sights and views, there is no harmony. It seems that the main contribution of these disturbances in the face of the city is related to the design and composition of the building masses. This nasty and inelegance image sits in the minds of the citizen that gets addicted to it or gets annoyed because of it. The more hardness is for trained eye that evaluates and adapts the features of these buildings base on the theoretical frameworks, principles, and rules of aesthetics. Research Question: Therefore, the main issue is the reason for this unreliability and getting used to this ugliness, and that how do today's designers and applicants consider the beauty and desirability of city buildings form and their composition? Do the citizens see the city's buildings beautiful? the present study seeks to answer those questions.

 To progress the research, a qualitative research method called the Grounded Theory has been selected. The data is appeared based on interviews with 50 residents of district 2 of Tehran. The interview began with an open question: "How is your neighborhood, place of living, street or alley? Explain it". This preliminary question specifies that whether the interviewees had an experience of visual perception of constructional masses and forms during life in their neighborhood. Further, during the interview and according to the items in each interview, other questions are proposed in the formwork of research issues. Then, the texts of all the interviews have been written, and using techniques of research methodology, analyzed, and their theoretical concepts, extracted and categorized based on their content similarities and differences. In the following, each category of the matched concepts obtained a role in relation to other categories (conditions/context, action/ interactional strategies and consequences) and created a paradigmatic model. And after integratind the categories, deleting additional concepts, completing incomplete concepts, the core category of a phenomenon was identified.

The main categories obtained from the interpretation of the text of the interviews are:Conditional/contextual categories- Merchant urban management- Difference in the type of opinion to the urban development- Emergence of changes in the inhabitants desires and conditions Interactional categories- Visual inconsistency of building masses- Unbalanced combination of building masses with adjacent spaces- Disproportionate size of buildings relative to each other and adjacent spaces- Interest in low-density and low-rise building patterns- Interest in more opened and spacious space proportions- A wish for a less populated place/ a mismatch between space capacity and the dwelling populationConsequential categories- Forgetting about the current time of the living environment- Disconnecting with the living environmentBy reviewing the conceptual content of categories obtained, it seems that the perception and experience of inhabitants of Tehran's 2nd district about the aesthetic aspect of their living environment are visually annoying and unfavorable.What caused of the formation of this experience is the idea of the existence of "merchant urban management", "the difference in the type of opinion to the urban development", "the emergence of changes in the inhabitants’ desires and conditions "; in other words, these cases are the underlying and casual conditions for the formation of this experience. Subsequently, inhabitants in their understanding of the present situation regulate processes in their minds that explain the overall sense of "To perceive inelegance and undesirability from the city". The two main categories of "visual irregularities and distortions" and "shortage of open spaces and a lot densities" play the role of interactional categories in this experience; the categories inhabitants apply to perceive their experience of the living place. Finally, the consequence of the formation of these interactions and processes, or the same general phenomenon (To perceive inelegance and undesirability from the city), emerge in the poor communication of the interviewees with their living environment. The sense of "forgetting of the present time among the regret of the past and the future concern" and "the disconnecting to the living environment" because of the thought for immigration and indifference to the environment, are the consequences of this experience.

Most pedestrian spaces in our cities lack the visual appeal, vividness and landscaping to offer pedestrians any satisfaction. Since the concept of beauty is qualitative and subject to interpretations, and enough has been said about it from theoretical and philosophical points of view, the main challenge here remains in how to measure, assess and apply beauty. One visually encounters a lot of things in local streets. The recreation of the base design is one of the recent approaches to urban design, at whose core lies an applied attention to beauty. People conceive this type of space from a near distance and at low speeds, which naturally brings with it high degrees of attention. As a result, the explanation of aesthetic criteria in the quality of beauty in the design of local streets demands maximal public contribution in order to domesticise the concept and prevent authentic values and domestic identities from being neglected by an elitist mannerism. The present research started with explaining theories and extracting applied aesthetic criteria in five categories. It then went on to examine these on Qazvin’s Shahid Ansari Street in the city’s historic district. This was based on a survey based on observations and questionnaires. To find out how people prioritise the five criteria they were broken into 25 simple qualitative aphorisms in questionnaires, to be analysed later. Of people’s priorities 15 were found to be meaningfully high (ranked above 50%), among which attention to the quality of historic buildings came top (93.6%) followed by attention to domestic culture (85.8%) for designing the local street in question. Least important criteria were considered to be the balance between building heights (56.6%) followed by the harmony between various building components (52.2%), meaning people were feeling less connected to the latter.

Urban space is the context in which the activities and different perception of users take place; but various users such as different age groups have dissimilar perceptions of environment. It seems that the built environment and particularly urban space as the product of work of urban planners, urban designers and architects, does not necessarily consider the real variety of users and through this fact, aesthetic aspect of urban environment does not fulfill their needs fairly. Overlapping of the two domains of environmental psychology and urban aesthetics on the one hand and the diverse psychological characteristics in different age groups on the other hand confirm the necessity of this research. The need for studying urban aesthetics is re-affirmed also from a statistical point of view. In 2010 demographics, out of seven billion of the world’s population, approximately 1.2 billion were children between the ages of 5 and 14. This figure is approximately 17.4 percent of the total world population or one-fifth. The same statistics is shown in Iran where there were roughly 11 million children (5-14 age range) from the total population of 74 million in 2010 which is approximately 15 percent and or one-sixth of the total population. These official statistics are demonstrate the importance children in different fields generally and especially in urban design and urban aesthetic. Studying urban aesthetics from the viewpoint of particular users of urban space like children with different psychological characteristics leads to an introduction to urban aesthetics which is trying to find the answer to the research question. The objective is to identify the aesthetic preferences of children in their surrounding environment, especially in urban spaces. However, there were some limits in this study; the most important limiting factor was the lack of detailed information regarding the social and cultural environment of the statistical sample which could explain differences in children’s points of views. Thus, examining urban spaces from an aesthetic perspective is important because their users have different aesthetic perceptions and urban spaces are not necessarily responsive for all kinds of users. This research answers the following questions: which environmental aesthetic preferences can be recognized in different groups of children and adults, and what are the priorities of related variables in different groups. There are two major approaches to the study of aesthetics, empirical and philosophical. This research is based on the empirical approach according to the importance of visual aspects in urban design. This research has studied the signification of three groups conforming to Santayana’s classification of environmental aesthetics which consists of three categories of emotional, formal and symbolic. The research is applied and descriptive-analytic. Data was collected from library study based on documentary research as well as field observations and children’s drawings. Based on Cochran's C test, 750 effective questionnaires were dispensed in Isfahan city which is the figure for the statistical population. The results were analyzed by Likert-Scale and SPSS software. The findings indicate certain differences exist between the various age groups in their preferences of aesthetic priority and in the importance of formal variables from the viewpoint of children. Of the three mentioned categories of environmental aesthetics, the formal category was most frequently preferred by children.

The main purpose of this study is to introduce the different approaches and methods of urban aesthetics. The research method is comparative-analytical.This study indicates that there are four main approaches in urban aesthetics: the physical approach, the psychological approach, the expert approach and the public preference approach. The study introduces the techniques of each approach as well. The physical and expert approaches are similar in nature and are widely used in urban management methods. These two approaches can be used to convert the physical properties of urban landscapes to design parameters. The psychological and public preference approaches are also similar in nature and are widely used in substructure studies. The two can be used to understand the public’s perception of urban aesthetics and use the results to make decisions in planning urban design projects. The evaluation methods of these four approaches were analyzed in tow groups of expert preference (including descriptive, non- quantitative and quantitative lists) and public preference (including non- quantitative and quantitative lists and the index method). The evaluation techniques and tools have also been introduced for each evaluation method in this paper and thoroughly categorized. These techniques include direct and indirect ones appropriate for the four approaches in urban aesthetics.In general, the paper defines the framework of possible future studies in the field of urban aesthetics and helps researches choose the most appropriate approach in their studies.The aim of this paper is to introduce the different approaches and methods in urban aesthetics. The research method is analytical and comparative. It analyzes and compares different opinions in the field of urban aesthetics and its different techniques. Based on the conducted studies, four main approaches can be introduced in urban aesthetics: the physical approach, the psychological approach, the expert approach, and the public preference approach. This paper has carefully considered the methods for these approaches as well.The findings of the study showed that the public preferences and psychological approaches must be used as the main substructure approaches in urban aesthetics and the physical and expert approaches as complementary approaches.