Changes in the traditional urban form and the social sustainability of contemporary cities: A case study of Iranian cities

Sharifi, Ayyoob; Murayama, Akito

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2012.05.007

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“…The old parts of many Iranian cities consist of several basic structures including a mosque and tomb, a bazaar, a square, residential quarters, a religious school, and a public bathhouse (Habibi 1998;Tavasoli 2001;Karimi 2000;Sharifi and Murayama 2013). All these physical structures are multifunctional and have important characteristics such as socio-economic, cultural, environmental, and political (Clark and Costello 1973;Kheirabadi 2000).…”

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“…Each neighbourhood is like a small town, containing nearly all the main structures of a city centre, such as a bazaar, a mosque, a religious school, as well as underground water storage (ab-anbar) and the residential quarters around them. The old part has also a city centre which consists of the Jameh Mosque, a tomb, a bazaar, a religious school, a public bath, and residential quarters (Habibi 1998;Tavasoli 1989Tavasoli , 2001Sharifi and Murayama 2013). The location of the old part within the modern city is shown in Fig.…”

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“…The old part developed gradually and has a well-interconnected structure (Kheirabadi 2000;Memarian and Brown 2003). The new part has developed largely independently of the old part and is geometrically different from the old, historical part (Karimi 2000;Zanganeh Shahraki et al 2011;Sharifi and Murayama 2013).…”

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Quantifying the Differences in Geometry and Size Distributions of Buildings Within Cities

Mohajeri

Guðmundsson

2014

Nexus Netw J

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There have been many studies on the spatial configuration of cities, but few attempts to quantify the difference in building patterns between the old and new parts of cities. This may be partly attributable to lack of suitable study methods. This paper presents a new application of statistical methods for quantifying the geometric difference between different parts of a city using, as a case study, the old (historical) and new parts of the city of Yazd in Iran. We measured 341 edge lengths of 4 bazaars, 302 edge lengths of 5 mosques and tombs, and 239 edge lengths of 3 schools. We also measured 6,804 edge lengths and the areas of 1,243 well-preserved courtyard houses in the old part and 4,948 edge lengths and the areas of 1,237 houses in the new part of the city. In the old part, all edge-length and house-area frequency distributions, to a first approximation, follow power laws, indicating that there are many small and very few large buildings. By contrast, in the new part the edge-length and house-area frequency distributions follow bimodal (two-peak) distributions. The calculated entropies (measures of dispersion) of the house edge lengths and areas in the old part are much higher than of those in the new part and provide a clear, quantitative measure of the geometric differences between the builtup structures of old and the new parts of the cities. The power-law distributions in the old part indicate a gradual and continuous variation in sizes of edge lengths and house areas, whereas the bimodal distributions in the new part indicate abrupt (discontinuous) changes in the edge lengths and house areas. The entropy results imply that the size distributions of houses in the old part are more dispersed than those in the new part, indicating more interconnected structures in the old part of the

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2014

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“…Communication to the public emphasizes increasing public awareness about the project and possible effects on the public of project demolition (Shen et al, 2007). Public participation aims to generate improved decisions around multiple challenges regarding risks to well-being, health, and the environment (Sharifi & Murayama, 2013;Kasemir, 2003;Sahely et al, 2005).…”

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“…The criteria and sub-criteria in social sustainability are summarized in Table 2. (Sahely et al, 2005), (Kasemir, 2003), (Sharifi & Murayama, 2013) 1.6. Architectural Issues 1.6.1.…”

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Integrating and ranking sustainability criteria for housing

Abdul‐Rahman

Chen

Wood

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering

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Numerous researchers have determined sustainability criteria relating to environmental performance but the other two sustainability components -economic and social performance -have not been taken into consideration in an integrated and hierarchy manner. Existing sustainability assessment methods (e.g., LEED, GBI, IGBC, and BREEAM) ignore the economic and social aspects, and sustainable criteria are not prioritized for decision making facilitation. To prioritize sustainable criteria for residential buildings in the triquetrous sustainability model including environmental, economic, and social in a global and integrated manner, a Fuzzy-AHP tool was employed and a structured expert-based development process comprised of seventeen building practitioners and eight academics from sixteen nations was conducted globally among carefully selected experts. A Fuzzy Weighted Hierarchy for Triquetrous Sustainability (FWH-TS) in residential buildings was developed at the end of this study. Assisted by programmers, the FWH-TS is expected to be developed into a PC software or Apps in the near future to improve construction management.

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Elements of socially sustainable innovation processes in Finnish urban development

Parjanen

Hyypiä

Martikainen

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Sustainable Development

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The purpose of this article is to study socially sustainable innovation processes in urban development. Which elements can be identified to support socially sustainable innovation processes in urban development and how were the elements realized in urban innovation processes in Finland in 2013 and 2015 are the research questions.According to the literature review, socially sustainable innovation processes include an open and interactive development approach, resident and user-driven involvement, communication, learning and feedback, and impact assessment. To track the elements in practice a qualitative approach using case-based research was conducted.The results reveal that urban development processes in Finland could not be considered socially sustainable because the elements are realized differently.Although many current processes include resident participation, impact assessment is lacking. The study also presents a strategy for how to create more socially sustainable urban innovation processes.

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Changes in the traditional urban form and the social sustainability of contemporary cities: A case study of Iranian cities

Cited by 79 publications

References 26 publications

Quantifying the Differences in Geometry and Size Distributions of Buildings Within Cities

Quantifying the Differences in Geometry and Size Distributions of Buildings Within Cities

Integrating and ranking sustainability criteria for housing

Elements of socially sustainable innovation processes in Finnish urban development

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