Urban planning and new management practices have transformed the use of public spaces in many countries. However, disillusions and failure to provide local values highly affect the forms of these areas. This article considers the dynamism and user’s preferences of such spaces, studying the transformation of public spaces, new business centers and their impacts on the experience of space users. Esfahan is considered as a city with rapidly expanding economy, although public spaces thereof have largely failed to meet the people's requirements. This study seeks to answer the questions regarding the concepts of public spaces, criticisms on the emergence of public spaces, and their effects on the experience of the citizens. Accordingly, modernist and capitalist-inspired approaches have created meaningless and unfriendly spaces with no role in the experience of space users. Based on the literature review, and the in-depth interviews conducted in 4 urban spaces in Esfahan, this study considered the elements of space domination, space ownership, (with public and private boundaries), use of space and agency in space, and provided a proper understanding of the role of urban design in enhancing the collective experience of space users, which could help public spaces encounter various challenges. According to this study, a leading urban design approach is to be pursued, if the public spaces are to meet the requirements of the citizens and remain in the collective experience of users. پرونده مقاله

The land is the ground for human activity and a place to meet all the resources needed by man. In other words, the geography of consumption plays a vital role in the development or non-development of modern cities. The current study is applied research in terms of the objective and descriptive-analytical in terms of the nature and method. The data collection has been performed using documentary-based and library-based methods and interviews with the experts and the citizens’ questionnaire (384 samples). The samples have been selected using snowball and random sampling methods. The mean land-use indicators have been investigated by the T-test in the SPSS. The findings indicate that among the components effective on the land consumption in Ousahn, Fasham, and Meigoun, the proximity with Tehran metropolis, water resources, and access to tourist attractions have been most effective with mean values of 8.42, 8.34, and 8.26, respectively. Also, among the indicators effective on the land consumption in Oushan, Fasham, and Meigoun, the economic policies of the government, accessibility, and climate have been the most effective with mean values of 7.84, 7.75, and 7.41, respectively. The results indicated that the changes in land-use patterns in Oushan, Fasham, and Meigoun could be explained in five periods. These changes are more affected by the urban land consumption, natural factors, and infrastructural developments, especially in terms of accessibility, i.e., proximity with the Tehran metropolis, more than the increase in urban population. The 2000s have been the initiation point of the huge evolution in the area of land in the region. In this decade, with the initiation of construction of the second home for the tourists, the way for mass land consumption in the cities was paved, which was followed by the increase in inflation and the land prices. پرونده مقاله