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1 - The Significance of “Landmarks” in Analysis of the Components of “Identity” and “Culture” in the Image of Iranian City (Case Study: Image of Shiraz City)
Tahereh Nasr

City with culture-oriented pattern can’t be implemented anywhere in the field. Identity is an important factor that shapes the townscape. A townscape is a collection of natural and man-made factors that have been formed under the influence of special natural, cultural, More

City with culture-oriented pattern can’t be implemented anywhere in the field. Identity is an important factor that shapes the townscape. A townscape is a collection of natural and man-made factors that have been formed under the influence of special natural, cultural, social and economic characteristics of that given town and it's the place of materialization of the special characteristics of that town. On the other hand, urban spaces can be reminded people the symbolic aspects of culture and history. In facing with the appearance of modern towns, one sees a crisis caused by the disproportion of spaces to their current functions, composition of inconsistent uses, uniformity and lack of dynamism in urban spaces. This paper describes the concept of identity and culture. In terms of cultural identity can affect the townscape and the face of the city. Research Objectives: 1- What factors play a role in physical identity of Iranian historical cities? 2- How can the component “culture” influence on the physical identity of Iranian cities? 3- Can the cultural identity components of cities be proposed as the landmarks and signs in the historical cities? Research Hypothesis: 1- Cities’ cultural identity components can be presented as symbols in historical cities. 2- Attention to the culture concept in the form and sense of today Iranian cities can be controlled cities’ image identity crisis effectively. Research Methodology: The method explored in components of the physical identity of Shiraz city is a descriptive – analytical and field method to gather information and documents are available. Results: The results of this study show that the towns have an appearance in which uniformity of the urban fabrics, inconsistency between the apparent form of the space and its meaning, inattention to the notion of form and meaning in our culture is observable and consequently, there are forms that have no meaning. In addition, research suggests that the consequences of belonging to a place in the Iranian city of proving spatial identity. So, the components of cultural identity of the city can be considered as signs or landmarks of the historical cities. Urban semiotics are considered as a valuable tool for the representation of the cultural identity components in urban areas. According to the results, the following suggestions can be considered in the cultural sphere of urban design: 1- Recreating and revival Iranian historical cities with respect to the cities’ natural, synthetic and human identity components. 2- Strengthening of historical cities’ textures interoperability with the approach of regeneration of cultural identity components of cities. 3- Locating of urban landmarks and elements of town squares as a contiguous cognitive and perceptual map for strengthening the cities’ cultural components. 4- Taking advantage of peoples’ memories and appropriate concepts to design of signs, landmarks and elements. 5- Creating the cultural spaces with the appropriate functioning of the cultural dynamics of neighborhoods and cities. 6- Highlight the urban elements and landmarks form with the proper use of materials and colors appropriate to the climate and the cultural identity of each city. Manuscript profile

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2 - Sociological analysis of the role of space and architecture of cultural centers in sustainable cultural development (Case study: Cultural centers of Tehran)
NILOOFAR SOODMAND امام جمعه Emamjomeh Alieh Shekarbeygi

10.30495/jisds.2022.61937.11551

Cultural development is a process during which changes in the field of perception, cognition, value, tendencies and appropriate developmental actions occur in society, and the realization of this depends on people's participation in cultural activities by constructing c More

Cultural development is a process during which changes in the field of perception, cognition, value, tendencies and appropriate developmental actions occur in society, and the realization of this depends on people's participation in cultural activities by constructing cultural and artistic places and creating Cultural goods exhibitions and various cultural festivals take place. Today, cultural centers, despite the infrastructure, architecture and appropriate space, are less in line with their development goals and have gaps in the field of development planning that can be considered. The present study is developmental and applied in terms of purpose and is exploratory in terms of data collection method. In this research, with the help of data theory qualitative research method and with the help of library documentation tools and semi-structured interviews of 20 cultural center officials and cultural planning deputies of Tehran, a paradigm model has been tried to explain the space capacity and architecture of Tehran cultural centers. Present the direction of sustainable cultural development. In this study, 3 main streams with the title of events and conscious actions in the cultural center, cultural center as the source and origin of social power and physical structure-architecture of the cultural center and with central coding to the core of the discussion as the role and place of cultural centers in sustainable cultural development we arrived. Causal, contextual, interventionist conditions are examined and strategies are proposed accordingly. Manuscript profile

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3 - Investing in the Culture and Economic Growth
sara hanjari Mehdi Taghavi fatollah Tari Ahmad Jafarisamimi Abbas Shakeri

Culture is infrastructures of economic, social and political. Development of the country is not possible without considering that. Expenditure spent on culture is not cost, but it could be kind of investment. Countries can boost economic growth through investment in the More

Culture is infrastructures of economic, social and political. Development of the country is not possible without considering that. Expenditure spent on culture is not cost, but it could be kind of investment. Countries can boost economic growth through investment in their cultural heritage and ultimately contribute to the welfare. The cultural index is estimated by using theoretical foundations of relative advantage and RCA benchmark and the impact of cultural indicators on Iran's economic growth in the form of dynamic integration regression (GMM) in the period of 1379-1395. Estimates show that with each percentage increase in physical capital, economic growth is expected to increase by 0.047% and physical capital has a positive and significant relation with economic growth. Therefore, it is expected that with increasing capital, production and, consequently, economic growth will increase. Also, with every percentage increase in human resource, economic growth will increase by as much as 5.73% and with each unit increase in the interactive variable of economic growth will increase by 0.0004 units. Therefore, the cultural index in addition to the direct channel through human capital can also affect the economic growth. The results for AR (1) and AR (2 are 0.17 and 0.688, which indicate the proper choice of model tools. In fact, in the period under review, the effect of the relative advantage of increasing the value of cultural variables on economic growth is positive and significant. Also, if cultural index can increase human capital, it can also increase economic growth. Manuscript profile

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4 - political participation and democratic system and political culture
Farhad Mehregan Abolhassan Faghihi Naser Mirsepassi

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of political participation in the establishment of a democratic system and to determine the participatory mechanisms to shape the values of the political culture in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. This research More

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of political participation in the establishment of a democratic system and to determine the participatory mechanisms to shape the values of the political culture in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. This research is in terms of nature and method, descriptive (survey) and in terms of relations between variables, is one of the correlation studies. The statistical population of the study consisted of directors and deputies of 13 ministries selected by cluster sampling. The sample size was 73 using Cochran formula. The research data were collected through researcher-made questionnaires whose validity and reliability were confirmed by various tests. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS and LISREL software, using correlation and path analysis. The results showed that there is a strong and positive correlation between the research variables and the route of influence between them is acceptable. So that, political participation of citizens has been effective in establishing a democratic system firstly, democratic processes have succeeded in shaping the values of a successful political culture secondly. It can also be predicted a high percentage of change on based on the existing situation. Manuscript profile

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5 - A comparative study of cultural studies and cultural sociology schools
sadegh jahanbakhshganjeh

Culture is a context which encompasses all sustainable social behaviors. The meaning of context goes back to non-material environment including values, beliefs and custom and the most important feature is the sustainability that shapes to human behaviors. Indeed, the hu More

Culture is a context which encompasses all sustainable social behaviors. The meaning of context goes back to non-material environment including values, beliefs and custom and the most important feature is the sustainability that shapes to human behaviors. Indeed, the human sustainable behavior is due to having particular culture and differences of these behaviors are result of difference among cultures. Accordingly, different schools and theories have considered culture and its context. The aim of this essay is examine of two schools including cultural studies and cultural sociology which have affected on existing streams on society, so we have tried to compare these schools, Firstly the cultural studies school has been introduced, secondly, we introduced the cultural sociology school and finally there is comparison among them and also differences have been examined. However, there is some similarities among noted schools such as Marxist and European origin, also, there are some differences including the type of view to culture, the study subject and approach in examining the social phenomena. Although, there are some similarities between them but from point of ontological, epistemological and methodological view, we can recognize that they have critical differences. Manuscript profile

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