Journal of Iranian Architecture & Urbanism(JIAU)

Abstract The changes in urban life today has resulted in the less importance or complete loss or of many known urban spaces and social and cultural functionalities. These changes are mostly by disorientation, lack of identity and disaffiliation of citizens in social activities, whereas urban identity reinforces the link between city and citizens, and brings them special social characteristics, through the association of memories and sense of belonging in them. One way to accomplish this matter is utilizing the capacity of historic evocative buildings in the cities. Based on this, the purpose of this research is the feasibility study for the revival of urban space around the historical bridges of the city with emphasis on citizen’s identity and collective memory. The case study for this research is urban space around the historic bridge of Langroud city. In this research, effective factors in creating evocative urban space for citizens were evaluated by a questionnaire. The research
method presented in this paper was survey method using a case study. For this reason, two kind of questionnaires has been used and the reliability of each ones has been verified by calculating Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient. Also, the questionnaires were analyzed by SPSS software. The results indicate that elements such as meaning, structure and activity have the highest impact respectively, in the revival of urban space and creating sense of belonging around the historic bridge of Langroud city. The final result is that structural planning around historic bridges should be done in order to improve appropriate social and cultural activities, and give meaning to the city. It also indicates the role these valuable elements have in creating evocative urban space and identity for citizens.

Abstract Social interaction and socialization in urban spacedue to the interaction between the formal, semantic and functional human environment, one of the first steps towards understanding by citizens is a pleasant space.Its importancelies in the urban spaceofthe city as a whole and the possibility of a clear text reading and reading this text provides. Social interactions in urban space is the mirror of the intangible aspects of civic life through a system of signs and occurrence of possible manifestations of foreign and provides a positive or negative assessment. Why various activities in the urban area by population do, is considered part of their culture. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of initiatives to promote social interaction and socialization is carried out in the urban area. The research community and the people of experts, set up, which based on the response to the questionnaire, subjects randomly, and experts were selected by cluster sampling. In order to analyze the data according to the results of the SWOT, the technique of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the application form EXPERT CHOICE, is used. The results showed that components such as walk, non-verbal communication and interaction space; components affecting social interaction and socialization to promotethe cause of urban space. Access to scientific and practical components in the design of urban space, using indicators such as vitality, the possibility of interactions between people, private and public space and enrich the experiences of citizens is concerned.