Designing a Conceptual Model for Integration of Urban Space Network in District 6 of Tehran

The study of urban space as a structural element in cities has attracted growing attention in recent years. Certainly, public spaces serve as an essential factor that can increase urban arrangement, create and maintain a strong local center and enhance the quality of superior environment and the sense of citizenship. Moreover, integrity has been treated as the most basic structural quality and one of the essential principles and concepts of cities. Integrated urban spaces demonstrate the integrated structure of spatial organization in a city where not only the connection between forms and functions of spaces, but also the identity and its place in the complex urban system are taken into account. Therefore, the processes of planning, designing and construction of urban spaces can contribute to the resolution of structural problems in urban models such as inconsistency, which is related to spatial analysis. The main purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual model for an integrated network of urban spaces to help the decision-making process. Certainly, these networks strengthen urban structure and integrity, and contribute to the socio-economic growth and prosperity for city dwellers. Accordingly, the study seeks to explore the factors influencing the interconnected urban spaces network and to propose a conceptual model for its development. The research was exploratory-explanatory and a comparative analysis was adopted for the decision-making process. The main research method was content analysis and inductive reasoning. The results revealed that urban spaces were located in a network logic and to achieve spatial integrity, socialization, physical form, sense and functional indicators of each space were united with other spaces via integrity indicators including consistency, continuity, hierarchy, etc.