Giving identity to dead urban spaces with a sustainable urban development approach

Shabnam Zand¹

1) Master of Architecture - Payam-e Noor University, International Center of Kish, Iran, Email:

IOI Code : XBAA-CHKBE
Publication : International Congress on Engineering science and Sustainable Urban Development - Copenhagen (dtuconf.eu)
Abstract :
    These days, the identity crisis is known as a global crisis. One aspect of this issue is related to the same and uniformity of all places. Due to the rapid changes that are taking place in cities, the factors that are effective on urban transformation, should be realized for accelerating. In addition to the geographic and human body formation of the city, the events and daily events, and the social interactions of the people who are present in the city, are also factors that contribute to the formation of city and human memories. Memories create an individual s attachment to the living environment in a city. Accordingly, in this paper, we will score the identity crisis, identity components, urban development and regeneration, attachment to the place, reactions to adaptation to the environment and how they affect the minds of the citizens, and we note that the lack of vivid urban spaces and becoming stranger, result to the irreparable damage, such as helplessness, that is the last and worst form of human response to the environment, which can cause mental and psychological disturbances. In addition, this paper, focuses on the philosophy of escapism and describing the vivid aspects of urban and urban spaces, with an approach to flexible cities, how smart architects use rapid changes and architectural elements and narratives that form in the city and can be built develop social interactions and create vitality in the urban environment, it is trying to provide a solution to revive our urban spaces by offering solutions and designs that are constructed or proposed. All contents which are written in this paper, collected from lectures, cooperating with the research team of the AA School of Architecture, and a look at the perspectives of architects, theorists and leading scholars throughout history to now.

Keywords : identity escapism urban regeneration sustainable development urban transformation