Document Type : Independent Research Articles
Authors
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PhD in urbanism, Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism. Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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Associate Professor in Urban Design, Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism. Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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Professor of Universities, UMR CITERES (Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés), University of Tours, France
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PhD Student, UMR CITERES (Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés), University of Tours, France
Abstract
The relationship between social processes, form and spatial structure has always been of serious interest to sociologists, geographers and urban planners. Geographers and sociologists focused more on the spatial features of poverty and deprivation, including the separation between social levels and how they were distributed in space. In finding sustainable urban forms, urban planners have often considered a compact approach to the relationship between form and sustainability. The results show that there is not necessarily a significant relationship between dense form and social stability. New studies, therefore, have emphasized the coherent connection of form elements rather than their compact form. Therefore, this question arises that which feature of the form can be most effective in social sustainability, coherence or compactness? Accordingly, the present study seeks to assess the relationship between physical form coherence and compactness and social deprivation in neighborhoods of Isfahan. In this regard, first, the coherence of some neighborhoods in Isfahan (43 neighborhoods) was measured based on the internal relationship between the elements of form and their composition, and then deprivation in these neighborhoods was ranked using TOPSIS method. Finally, the correlation method first examined the relationship between coherence and deprivation and then the relationship between compactness (net and gross density) and deprivation. The results
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