چکیده:
The neighborhood has had a long history in Iranian urbanization. Since urban plans wereintroduced by the authorities to shape urban development in Iran half a century ago, the concept of Iranian traditional neighborhood has been neglected gradually. The concept of neighborhood has not found the appropriate status in urban design and planning yet. One of the main reasons is that academics, professional urban planners, designers and managers use different definition and no consensus exists on definition of neighborhood. The aim of research is to compare residents’ perception of their neighborhood boundaries with boundaries of administrative-defined Neighborhoods which municipalities consider. The main hypothesis of the research is fundamental difference between these two views: top- down view from experts and urban managers who see the neighborhood as a spatial unit for city organizing and bottom- up view from residents who consider the neighborhood as the place of their social life. The Research methodology has been done base on the survey method and an analytical approach has been applied. The case study is located in Mashhad city in Iran. Four municipality-defined neighborhoods were selected in various urbanfabrics of the city. Findings indicate that residents’ definition of their neighborhood was influenced by socio-spatial factors and interaction of these on each other. There is a substantial and fundamental difference between residents’ definition of neighborhood and municipality-defined neighborhood. Finally, this study proposes recommendations for the better definition of administrative neighborhoods in Iran.
خلاصه ماشینی:
An Analytical Study on Boundaries of Administrative-defined Neighborhoods Using Residents’ Cognitive Maps (Case study: Mashhad Municipality Neighborhoods, Iran) 1Amidoleslam Saghatoleslami, 2Seyedeh Negar Hosseinian, 3Maryam Behnami Fard 1Assistant Professor, Department of urban planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch.
INTRODUCTION In fulfilling the community requirements for creating comfortable living environment, the spatial distribution of cities to social and physical units is used and the neighborhood is one kind of these urban subdivisions.
The main hypothesis of the research is a fundamental difference between these two views: top- down view from experts and urban managers who see the neighborhood as a spatial unit for city organizing and bottom- up view from residents who consider the neighborhood as the place of their social life.
The main hypothesis of the research is a fundamental difference between these two views: top- down view from experts and urban managers who see the neighborhood as a spatial unit for city organizing and bottom- up view from residents who consider the neighborhood as the place of their social life.
Table 1 shows the extent and population of four neighborhoods and in Fig. 1 & 2 the location of neighborhoods in Mashhad city and land use map Table 1: The extent and population of four selected neighborhoods (Source: The statistical center of Iran, 2006).