Urban space designing for more vitality (Case study: Ferdosi. St in Zabol)

Year 2015, Volume: 36 Issue: 3, 4150 - 4159, 13.05.2015

Hamidreza Sargazı Aval

Abstract

 

Abstract .A healthy urban space should contain a wide range of various applications that can provide a business and vital entertainment environment. By providing different ambitions for people to stay in downtown during days, especially at sunset times, more people will be absorbed. City as the most complex social and artificial place needs to have a vital texture that includes lively spaces such as streets. In various discussions there are different definitions about vitality in urban spaces; in these definitions in order to determine this property we can find some basic criteria and our focus will be on urban spaces physical and functional effects. In this article we choose Ferdosi.st that is one of the oldest and most crowd streets in Zabol to determine its vitality. Currently because of lack of planning and attention, this street faced with functional and basic drop. This research has done to improve vitality in Ferdrosi. St and it's a kind of applied research and its methodology is analytical- descriptive. According to findings it seems that building shopping centers with high security will cause vitality in this street.

Keywords

Urban spaces, Ferdosi. St, vitality, city, physical

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