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Introduction to promoting Identity in the image of the city with an emphasis on Islamic Thoughts
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image of the city is an important part of shape the mental image of citizens about their living environment. Ignoring these frontages presents serious challenges to the city's identity. Therefore, the goal of this research is to identify the components contributing to the identity of urban spaces and prioritize them to enhance utility. In the first step, employing qualitative content analysis, theoretical foundations were extracted in three sections: “what constitutes identity-forming elements”, “where they manifest” and “how they manifest” in both physical and semantic aspects. The first section introduces the concepts of identity to spaces, the second section introduces the scope of influence and impact of these concepts, and the third section specifies the strategy for manifesting content in the physical structure. In the second step, the extracted foundations from the previous stage were hierarchically analyzed and weighted using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine the physical and semantic priorities for designing (or modifying) identity-rich urban frontages. Based on the findings from the first stage, 4 content questions, including “Aesthetics”, “Security”, “Coherence” and “Humility” and 3 physical questions, including “Cultural archetypes”, “Attention to physical substrate factors” and “Efficiency” were obtained for urban spaces. These questions can be applied to the elements of the city such as path, edge, neighborhood, node, and landmark (realm of influence). Each city element is also characterized by the ground, frontage, and skyline factors (realm of manifestation). To overlay identity-forming elements into urban physical structures, three strategies were identified: “Proximity”, “Mimesis” and “Similarities”. The second phase of the analysis showed that among the above criteria, the weight of the “Security” component among meaningful questions, “Use of cultural archetypes” among physical questions, “Path” among city elements, “Frontage” among path-building factors, and “Mimesis" and representation” for manifesting questions are relatively higher compared to other components. As a result, the most crucial factor for enhancing the identity of urban spaces is the safe representation of archetypes patterns in the frontages of paths.
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| Keywords: Urban Spaces, Physiognomy, Identity, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) |
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Type of Study: Applicable |
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Accepted: 2024/02/29 | Published: 2024/02/29
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