Staging city events in public spaces: an urban design perspective

Right to the City and Urban Public Spaces

Right to the city is composed of appropriation and participation in urban affairs. Appropriation is realized through movement in the city, presence in it, comfort feeling, and having proper spaces. While urban participation is possible through being involved in urban policy-making, decision-making for physical and spatial issues, urban economy, ownership and control of urban...

Evaluating Age-Friendly City Indicators in Qazvin: Urban Open Spaces, Buildings and Public Places

Background As the population pyramid in Iran shifts to aging and the influence of environmental conditions on the elderly people, The need to pay attention to the foundations of well-being, security and comfort is felt more than ever.  Objective The present study aimed at evaluating the urban open spaces and public buildings/places of Qazvin city in Iran as indicators of an age-friendly city b...

A New Reading of Sociable Public Spaces: The Nexus between Urban Design and Microsociology

Over the past 50 years, while the development of intermediate texture of Tehran has focused on spatial dimension and physical structure, neglecting the user experience and social dimensions has become a design challenge. This paper has focused on Social interaction in public space neighborhood via integration of social and spatial dimensions which is essential more than ever. In this paper, a r...

An Economist=s Perspective on Urban Design

Vandalism Roots among Juveniles and Youths in Public Spaces of City (Case Study: Amol City)

Urbanism in third world and developing countries compared to that of developed countries has been increased with much more speed. From consequences of the population increase and accelerated growth of population in cities, reference can be lead to many problems such as increase of unemployment rate, housing problems, social anomalies, increase in crime and delinquency. Vandalism in public space...