Identification of the most important factors in the relationship between development and spatial structure of neighborhoods in the 1st and 3rd municipality regions in the city of Isfahan, by using Space Syntax.

Parham Fathi Hafshejani¹ Mehri Fathi Hafshejani² Shirin Sadat Tabesh³ Elnaz Mohsenin⁴

1) Urban planing Islamic Azad University of South Tehran, Iran,
2) Software engineering Payame Noor University of North Tehran, Iran,
3) Urban planing Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, Iran,
4) Urban Design Islamic Azad University of Center Tehran, Iran,

IOI Code : XCAZ-EGACD
Publication : 2nd. International Congress on science & Engineering - paris(parisconf.com)
Abstract :
    In the past, the spatial structure of Iran s historic cities, in the course of its development, has been subject to the environmental, social, economic, and physical logic of its context. But today, the rapid development of urbanization has placed a heavy burden on the structure of these neighborhoods. This causes not only the city s historic sites unable to provide the desired response to the needs of their residents but also has accelerated the pace of gradual wear and tear and instability development in cities at the present. The historical part of Isfahan, which mainly includes two regions, the 1st and 3rd regions of the municipality, is not an exception to this situation and is currently facing various structural and functional challenges. Since the study of development indicators as well as the discovery of the most effective variables of these indicators in relation to the spatial structure of the city, is a good platform for deciding on solving the problems of these neighborhoods; therefore, in this article, an attempt has been made to identify the most important factors influencing the development and spatial structure of these neighborhoods by using the theory of Space Syntax. In this regard, in order to measure the development of neighborhoods in these areas, 36 indicators in four categories of environmental and welfare, social, economic and physical were examined and both Integration R-3 (local) and Integration R-n (global) for neighborhoods were examined in the spatial structure of the city. Finally, the indicators of social and physical groups, respectively, were determined with the Pearson Correlation Coefficient of 0.86 and 0.75, as the most influential indicators and indicators of the economic group with the Pearson Correlation Coefficient of 0.001 as the least effective indicators in the development and spatial structure of these neighborhoods. Also, the sub-indices of literacy rate, quality of social relations, and the average distance from different land-uses were identified as the most effective sub-indices of social and physical indicators. It should be noted that in order to more accurately measure developmental indicators at a level of desirability, in this paper a new function with a special control coefficient in MATLAB software has been developed, which is the basis of calculations.

Keywords : historical texture urban spatial structure space syntax development