Abstract:
Relocating industries from the urban fabric of the cities emerging from globalization to their
outskirts, like what happened in the 19th district of Tehran, has resulted in post-industrial landscapes
and various and numerous social problems for these landscapes’ surrounding areas. Despite this
issue, post-industrial landscapes are an opportunity to revive the dimensions of urban life; however,
urban approaches on which actions have been taken in the 19th district, including the 2007 Master
Plan of Tehran and the 2005 Detailed Plan of the 19th district, have not been successful in solving
problems and increasing social sustainability. This article examines the reasons associated with the
failure of the applied approaches in increasing social sustainability and attempts to understand how
to revitalize post-industrial landscapes to increase social sustainability. For this reason, after studying
the concept of landscape and post-industrial landscape, the standard views towards them, and social
sustainability, different layers of the landscape of the case study were analyzed and integrated. Finally,
the reasons for the failure of the currently used approaches were outlined, and general suggestions
for solving social problems were provided. The result of the research is that the use of non-inclusive
definitions of these landscapes has resulted in physical actions, ignoring the identity of these postindustrial
landscapes, the main audiences, and their needs. However, the social problems in this
area are not only related to physical issues but are also influenced by a set of characteristics. An
accurate definition of the landscape by emphasizing the objective-subjective and holistic nature of
the landscape by examining the different dimensions of post-industrial landscapes can lead to the
origin of existing problems in the area. The problems of the residents around the kilns, who are their
main audience in these landscapes, require comprehensive solutions according to the origin of the
problems.