Explaining the Framework of the Effect of Spatial Organization on the Citizens’ Behavioral Patterns (Comparative Study of the Zargandeh and Darrous Neighborhoods using Urban Network Analysis Method)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanization, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.

2 Professor of Urban Planning, School of Urban Planning, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Investigating and analyzing the relationship between people’s behavioral patterns and the constituent structure of the space in urbanization requires a specific analytical-conceptual framework since they are considered two significant aspects. Thus, the researchers can explain the effect of the spatial organization in the formation of the citizens’ behavioral patterns in the different urban spaces based thereon. The current research was an analytical-descriptive study. The required information was collected by studying and reviewing the scientific papers and books (through methods such as taking notes and reading the texts). The Urban Network Analysis Technique was used to determine and scrutinize the relationship between the spatial configuration and the behavioral patterns while explaining the framework to analyze the spatial organization. Then, the different textures of the Darrous and Zargandeh neighborhoods were evaluated using the indicators that can be evaluated using this technique. The main question of the research was as follows: what is the effect of differences in the spatial organization of neighborhoods on the behavioral patterns of citizens? It is noteworthy that the current study was not hypothesis-oriented. The research results emphasized the undeniable effect of the physical environment and the physical structure of the environment on the spatial behavior of individuals and stated that effectiveness and formation of the spatial behavior of individuals depended on the internal and personality characteristics of each individual in addition to the five senses and mental images of the structure of the environment. The physical structure leads to the emergence of quality in the space, which is influential in people’s spatial behavior in that space. Indeed, the formation of the spatial behavior of people is different in each environment.

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Armanshahr Architecture & Urban Development
Volume 13, Issue 33
March 2021
Pages 227-239

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  • Receive Date: 09 July 2019
  • Revise Date: 05 January 2020
  • Accept Date: 03 March 2020

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