Framework-Spatial Changes of Iranian-Islamic Cities in the Present Age (Case Study: Birjand City)

Establishing and developing of cites is always under the effects of economic, social, cultural, political and also natural factors and the framework spaces of these cities also has been grown up and created according to these factors. While the present study attempts to investigate and explain the general process of framework and spatial evolutions and changes of Birjand city, then it tries to inspect and scrutinize these changes in two periods of time. The first period is pertained to the time of pre-modernism reflections when the sovereignty of inner-oriented indigenous architecture of Iran in the body of cites represents the perspectives which were in conformity with religious and Islamic beliefs. The second period is the entrance of post modernism period into the life of people; when the city under the influence of quick changes of population growth and urbanization, has got a new appearance to itself and of today outer-oriented modern architecture manifested in all aspects of city life and also surely in bodily and physicalspaces of it.