Assessing the Qualities of Empirical-Aesthetic Factor in Urban Design; a Case Study of Jumhuri Street in Tabriz

The quality of the urban design as one of its significant purposes, developed from societal desires and according to the present conditions; it covers all the four factors of aesthetic-objective, functional, aesthetic-subjective, and environmental. Since studying the quality of urban design of a place requires the assessment of urban environment components and its different dimensions, the model of creative place can be used for describing quality factors of urban design. Golkar`s model entitles as “Sustainable place” extracted from “Place” model proposed by Canter, is one of the most comprehensive models for assessing the qualities of place. Sustainable place model imports to four dimensions of form, function, imaginations and ecosystem. In this study, the dimensions of function and imaginary that constitute the empirical-aesthetic Factor are assessed in the case study area. The area of study, ​​Jumhuri Street, is one of the oldest historical streets in the eighth district of Tabriz city. Jumhuri Street was considered as one of the worth seeing places of Tabriz.

This research, investigates the creative qualities of the empirical-aesthetic Factor from the viewpoint of the people living in the case study area, people living in the other regions of Tabriz city and tourists.

Content-analysis is used to investigate various ideas and views toward qualities of empirical-aesthetic Factor from different philosophies and select the most critical ones. Then, through using the surveying method, various items of empirical-aesthetic Factor were assessed.

Results indicate that legibility and visual character are the most critical qualities of empirical-aesthetic Factor.

Different individuals from the whole Tabriz City, Eighth district and tourists have different ideas about the qualities of legibility and visual character.