Analyzing the relationships between community-led urban regeneration indicators in urban design with an interpretive structural modeling approach; A case study of the old urban fabric of Kan Neighborhood, Tehran.

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Authors

1 PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

2 MSc in Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

3 PhD Candidate in Urban Design, Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Abstract

Community-led urban regeneration requires the cooperation of neighborhood communities and reaching a collective agreement, and the more the role of people and local communities in such projects increases, the more it helps to improve the quality of life and citizen satisfaction. The current research was conducted to identify and analyze the indicators of community-oriented urban regeneration in urban design in the Kon neighborhood of Tehran with the interpretive structural modeling (ISM) approach. Information collection has been done in two ways: identifying and compiling effective social indicators in the process of urban regeneration in related researches and answering the questionnaire of ten elite experts related to the research. Experts' opinions and the final interpretative structural model show a strong multifaceted relationship between the indicators of community-oriented urban regeneration and that all the examined indicators are in the same direction and towards the common goals of community-oriented urban regeneration. , and there is a need for an integrated and comprehensive approach to urban design.

Highlights

  • There is a strong multi-faceted relationship between community-led urban regeneration indicators in the old urban fabric of Kan Neighborhood in Tehran.
  • The reviewed indicators are all in the same direction and towards the common goals of community-led urban regeneration, which remind us of the need for an integrated and comprehensive approach to urban design.
  • Community-led urban regeneration requires the cooperation of neighborhood communities in order to improve the quality of life of citizens.

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Iranian Urban Design Studies
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
September 2024
Pages 233-256

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  • Receive Date: 15 August 2024
  • Revise Date: 30 August 2024
  • Accept Date: 06 September 2024
  • First Publish Date: 16 September 2024
  • Publish Date: 16 September 2024

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