The Role of Urban Public Spaces for Increasing of social Safety
Subject Areas : architectureSeyyed Mohsen Habibi 1 , Sommayeh Seddighi 2
1 - Professor, Faculty of Urban Planning, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran.
2 - M.A. in Urban Planning, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Islamic Azad
University, Qazvin, Iran.
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Abstract :
The relation between sensory dimensions of urban spaces and social security is assessed in this research. The results of the study show that there is a direct relation between the perceived information of environment and human health. People feel and understand the urban spaces through different ways and pleasantness or unpleasantness of urban spaces and their safety can have a substantial role on the mental health of dwellers and passersby. This study tries to analyze different ways of transferring and general environmental perception and then finds their effects on social safety and security in order to propose a compound way to organize urban spaces.Based on the obtained results it was supposed to find a compound method for well forming of urban safety regarding some important and social characteristics, including age, gender, education, job, social class and other cases.Researchers tried to find the relevant elements which have direct effects on the decrease and increase of safety of urban environment and then tried to obtain results. The selected method for the analysis was a combination of both quantitative and qualitative methods. First, by using the different theoretical sources, the desired quantitative data were gathered and then by analyzing them the quantitative criteria for field consideration were assigned. In fact, according to the outcome information gathered from quantitative data the researchers tried to gather quantitative data and then generalized them. After choosing the methods of research, the next steps were assigning data gathering, collecting of qualitative and quantitative questions, analyzing the data and finally preparation of the report.Hereafter, it was analyzed to find the relation between the elements based on theoretical method, condition of variables (description) and their relation (analysis). First the samples were distributed based on basic elements, dependent and independent elements in order to achieve a general understanding of the sample population.Second, the relations between basic and independent elements with dependent elements were achieved through a test. The outcome answers from the participants were analyzed using SPSS statistical software. According to the raised theories and examining them in the two mentioned areas, the researchers used the uni-sample T-test for comparing the variables in these two areas.Selected case-studies are Saqerisazan and Goslar in Rasht. Oldness, their appearance time, the owning rate of urban facilities, the attitude of young and old people living in these two areas, were among other reasons, the basic ones to choose these two areas, so that the researchers could examine their special and unique characteristics. Distributing the questioners and then gathering of the information, the researchers could compare the rate of safety in the mentioned areas and could recognize the effective factors on the reduction of the safety and therefore were able to reject or approve the theories of the research. The research describes effective factors that affect the security of two mentioned districts. As a result, suggestions including guidelines, strategies, publicities and plan were given and recommended to decrease the crime rate and disorder behavior to increase the safety of each neighborhood.... Key words: Security, Safety, Social safety, Safe Urban City.
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