Urban Spatial Syntax Logic in the Coastal Plain Northern Coast of Iran

Understanding and analyzing the Space Syntax Logic of the spatial arrangement of settlements is effective in creating and developing population centers. The Space Syntax cities in the coastal plains has a special logic and follows special rules, the recognition of them requires familiarity with the memory of the historical development of coastal plains and factors that in some parts of it have created a spatial identity and attractiveness for the initial bed and the crystallization of the center of urban civilization.

In this study, relying on the theory of the Space Syntax and phenomenological approach and with the aim of territorial perception, we have recognized the processes of spatial identity in the plains of the northern coast of Iran.

Syntax analysis of settlements has been considered by looking at geomorphic components such as lake terraces, equilibrium ice – water line, equilibrium water, ice line, meander and drainage network pattern and Using descriptive-analytical method and using GIS, we have studied and analyzed the Space Syntax pattern of settlements and the configuration of space.

The results of this study show that:- Syntax Logic Marine painting settlements of the northern coasts of Iran are different from marine paintings of the southern coasts of Iran. Urban settlements in the marine image follow the Frequency-Magnitude rule of water level lines. Urban settlements in the marine image of the southern coasts do not follow the law of bifurcation. Urban settlements are not located in the mountain landscape and villages have taken their identity from the equilibrium ice-water line and permanent snow.