چکیده:
The aim of this paper is to investigate the bazaars and shopping centers as public spaces. Given theweakness of public places and consequently the weakness of social interactions, today’s societies are in dire need ofsocial spaces to increase social interactions. Therefore, the review of these two as then and now’s urban spaces couldhelp solve some problems. Bazaars are among the oldest Iranian urban spaces, which are deemed to be the palpitatingheart of the Iranian cities, playing different social, economic, and other roles. Shopping centers are adopted from the20th Century’s models and are considered as an appropriate alternative for Bazaars for the modern human of the 21stCentury. Descriptive-Analytical research method is of the case study model, and Space Syntax Software was usedfor collection of data by library method and analysis. The results show that shopping centers cannot be appropriatealternatives for Bazaars and can be considered as centers for meeting economic needs. Therefore, these centers couldnot be considered as appropriate collective spaces and as appropriate places for meeting social and recreational needs.
خلاصه ماشینی:
International Journal of Architecture and Urban Development Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2015 Analysis of Bazaars and Shopping Centers as Urban Spaces Via Space Syntax Software (Case Studies: Iranian Bazaars and Tehran Shopping Centers) 1Kaveh Bazr Afkan, 2*Reihaneh Khorrami Rouz 1Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Central Branch, Tehran-Iran 2M.
Iranian bazaars have been dynamic spaces of the city where social, cultural, political, and economic activities have been conducted, thus, have absorbed people (Burden & RuediRay, 2008, 222).
Because of the importance of bazaars in the life of the today’s man, they are studied as the collective space patterns in Iran’s yesterday, and shopping centers as their today’s substitute, making use of Space Syntax Software.
An / Fig. 2: Bazaar of Isfahan (Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Development,2009, 126) essential factor of shopping centers is a complex of shops in a roofed/unroofed space.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Bazaar of Tehran Analyzed axial map of bazaar of Tehran (Fig. 5 & Table 1) shows that Haj Abolfazl axis that includes some small rastehs and shopping centers has the highest amount of integration among the spaces, lines of which are highlighted in red, and also15 Khordad St. and Kafash bazaar (bazaar of shoes) have a high integration and this indicates that density and activity of these spaces are greater.
50003 3 Paytakht Shopping Center Analyzed axial map of Paytakht Shopping Center (Fig. 10 & Table 6) shows that the main axes have different amount of depth and integration and the great difference between the lowest and the highest of integration shows that some spaces are separated and somehow the sense of isolation is imposed on them.