فهرست مطالب

Space Ontology International Journal
Volume:5 Issue: 2, Spring 2016

  • تاریخ انتشار: 1395/03/12
  • تعداد عناوین: 6
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  • Mozhgan Nozari *, Mehrdad Mazloumi, Esmaeil Salehi Pages 1-10

    Since, in the same vein as public spaces, urban green spaces play a significant role in establishing social interactions in the Iranian cities, security concerns need to be taken more seriously in such places than other social environments, the insufficiency of which could diminish their functional capacity. This could in turn lead to a source of subsequent difficulties in urban spaces. Therefore, the undeniable role of environmental factors in inducing a sense of tranquility in individuals needs to be further taken into account in the field of urban design and planning. In light of the above concern, this study aimed at explaining the contributing environmental factors to fostering a sense of security. To this end, the scope of this was limited to Pardisan Park as the case study. This was a qualitative research, in which the prepared questionnaires were analyzed using AMOS in order to examine the various environmental factors. After a preliminary test was conducted, a conceptual model comprising five perspectives of environmental legibility, visual disturbance, lighting, cleanliness, and noise pollution was developed and analyzed. Taking the significance level as well as goodness- and badness-of-fit indices into consideration, all of these perspectives had acceptable load factors. Their impact ratios were 0.51, 0.28, 0.30, 0.78, and 0.23, respectively. Finally, suggestions were made in order to enhance the sense of security in the specified space, which could be implemented by landscape designers and urban managers.

    Keywords: Improving the Sense of Security, urban parks, Environmental factors, Urban Design, Planning, Tehran
  • Mohsen Ahadnejhad *, Vahid Yarigholi, MohammadJavad Norozi Pages 11-21

    Nowadays the quality of life is one of the factors that have special standing in the context of urban planning studies. This factor became significant due to the increasing importance of quality of life in the monitoring of public policy and its role as an efficient tool in the management and planning. Urban life quality is usually measured through the surveying and evaluation of subjective perception of citizen satisfaction of routine urban life and is measured using objective indicators. Nowadays, quality of life is the main goal of all programs is provided by the scientists and urban planners; therefore evaluation and spatial analysis in the quality of life indexes in urban areas and urban classified in terms of these indicators, it is essential to identify and improve the problematic areas. Due to this importance, this study analyzed the quality of life in Abhar municipal regions based on six criteria included that social, economic, housing quality, access to urban facilities and utilities, public transport and hygienic quality of environment. Research method based on quantities and analytical methods. In literature parts documentary and in field studies have been used questionnaire methods. To estimate sample size using Cochran formula and then 384 Abhar residents using a random sampling method to distribute questionnaires were chosen and multi criteria decision methods were used for rating Abhar municipal regions in terms of quality of life. One of the methods to measure the weight of a multi criteria analysis method that is involved in this research to prioritize the criteria weighted model (AHP) has been used. The results of this study show that, due to differences in the parameters and characteristics of socio-economic indexes, Abhar municipal region has differently quality of life than with other region, So that in terms of quality of life Region 2 has highest rate Region 4 had lowest rate in the ranking of Abhar municipal region.

    Keywords: quality of life, objective, subjective indicators, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Abhar City
  • Mohammadreza Sadeghi Moghaddam * Pages 23-29

    The quality of water in different usages especially drinking water has an important role on human health. As increasing the urban population and developing the industries, the releasing different materials into water cause various pollutions and problems for human cycles. The important goal of the present study is analyzing the mercury existence and pollution on different part of urban built environment especially drinking water. Incompatible association between residential areas and other functions have been recently examined and studied. Being adjacent of the residential and industrial areas could generate various pollution, high road traffic, noise, emissions, wastes and wastewaters with heavy metals. For achieving the goal, an important hypothesis was considered, “the existence of industries next to the residential land use, cause to increasing the mercury contents in drinking water”. The method of this study was analytic-descriptive and experimental procedure for examining the mercury pollution. Alborz industrial city was the case study. Its drinking water was selected for examining the existence of mercury. The results show that the mercury contents in this area are critical more than WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality. Therefore some important recommendations for decreasing the mercury contents were presented.

    Keywords: Urban pollutants, Mercury pollution, human health, Residential, Industrial areas, drinking water
  • Mojtaba Rezazade Ardebili, Taraneh Saberi Naseri * Pages 31-41
    Today, we see that despite the plans and decisions made about the historical fabric, the people are very faintly seen and conservation the historic fabric of urban is one of the main concerns management urban In the absence of efficient management and lack of attention to the needs of local people, the historical Fabric Urban is destroyed. In this article are examined Ways other than physical methods for the sustainable conservation of the historic fabric And Also review continue living in these fabric to community-based management because  conservation and urban development should be done by those who benefit from it. But there are questions about how we could be conserved this historical fabric in contention for between several of the organization and management? How can be involved people in field conservation in historical fabric? Or approaches to a sustainable conservation. This paper can be seen as mere attention to the body of the fabric, and the lack of applications in accordance with the needs of local people or lack of authentic knowledge about residents and fabric, have created problems for all fabric, all of things make more sophisticated to Living conditions for the residents of historic fabric urban. The following article looks at the historical fabric history and display with tables and charts the ways to achieve social capital and sustainable conservation.
    Keywords: Conservation, Diagnosis, social participation, Social capital, Historic fabric, Sustainable
  • Avideh Kamrani *, Mustafa Behzadfar Pages 43-47
    The matter of meaning in place, is one of the main qualities of human life. People consciously or unconsciously looking for meanings in places. The importance of finding the meaning of place is that, Understanding the meaning will lead to “act” in place. Finding the place friendly, or finding it insecure will lead to act differently. Now the question is that, is the meaning of place, something constant to put in place for ever or something changing from time to time. Does it related to physical elements of place or to the people using the place? Understanding the answers of questions above, would help the placemakers plan and design places better than before and meaningless places won’t happen anymore.
    Keywords: Meaning, Place, Constant, changing
  • Seyed Reza Shahmortezaei *, Jaleh Sabernejad Pages 49-55
    The traditional architectural methods used in the historical cities of Iran provide useful information on various fields related to architecture and urban planning. Of particular interest are the techniques used for designing open and closed spaces in houses located in the hot and humid climate zone. The proportions observed for the courtyard in such houses have a great role in determining the amount of radiation energy absorbed by various surfaces in the courtyard as well as in providing visual and thermal comfort conditions for the inhabitants. In this article, different examples of several courtyards were determined via field studies and the shaded areas resulting from various dimensions on different surfaces were analyzed at different times of the year using software models. Comparing the shaded area obtained from these samples with the Climate Need Table for Boushehr, we obtained the best sample in terms of sunlight and shade hours/times. These results were further compared with the long-term and short-term data obtained from Boushehr Meteorological Station. It was concluded that optimizing central courtyard proportions would increase shaded areas incident on courtyard surfaces, reduce walls temperature, reduce the cooling load of the building, and increase comfort inside traditional houses during the hottest period in Boushehr.
    Keywords: Housing, House, Old, Historical Part of Boushehr, vernacular architecture, Central courtyard