چکیده:
Over the past 50 years, while the development of intermediate texture of Tehran has focused on spatial dimension and physical structure, neglecting the user experience and social dimensions has become a design challenge. This paper has focused on Social interaction in public space neighborhood via integration of social and spatial dimensions which is essential more than ever. In this paper, a research has conducted through a literature review of theoretical and experimental researches in urban design and micro-sociological researchers. The aim of this paper is to develop a new perspective for reading sociability in public spaces. For reading contemporary social spaces, this article implements the combination of two observation methods to achieve better understanding regarding sociability of the public spaces. Firstly, Direct and walk-by observation tools have been used for creating behavioral map to better understand of the relationship between the temporal and spatial forms of social settings and secondly participant observation tools have been used. For being among the participants and identify the expression of their feelings and emotions, we used informal interviews and listened to their narratives and stories. The selected case is a neighborhood that has been developed in the intermediate texture of the city, “Koy-e-Nasr”, commonly known as “Geisha”, in Tehran, Iran. Although these spaces have no significant physical features, they are more popular for including the general interest of people. The findings offer new insight on what commonly have considered about the use of public spaces and illustrate the places and their locations such as streets edges and frontages, entrances and urban equipment, and variety of active and lingering or fleeting and passive social interactions and conditions.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The findings offer new insight on what commonly have considered about the use of public spaces and illustrate the places and their locations such as streets edges and frontages, entrances and urban equipment, and variety of active and lingering or fleeting and passive social interactions and conditions.
In this study, we study a deeper view of sociable public spaces and make a closer connection between the knowledge of sociology and urban design, attempting to clarify the importance of the social and experimental structure of users beside spatial characters.
There is a growing body of knowledge through a review of the existing studies about the social life and interactions in public spaces and the role of urban design.
In the urban design literature too, the activities that encourage social interactions such as sitting, standing, waiting, people watching and their relationships with the details of the existing context are emphasized (Gehl, 1971; Alexander et al.
Selected Public and Semi-public Spaces for Observation at Geisha Neighborhood <H2>RESEARCH FINDINGS</H2> Regarding the walked by observations made in selected parts of the neighborhood, and taking into account the information in participant observation reports and informal interviews, a gained content was different from what was introduced as the spatial characters that support social interactions in a review of urban design literature.
During the study, a new look into the public social spaces in the intermediate texture of the city indicates excessive attention to the spatial aspect in urban design and ignoring social aspects and experience of people using these spaces.
The study revealed the need for a new reading of sociable public spaces nexus between urban design and micro-sociology in the combination of spatial, social aspects.