چکیده:
The main purpose of urban design is to create good and high-quality urban spaces and environments for people to live while such quality may not be determined only by imposing a structural، perceptual and value system of the designer. It can be said that human and his powers to perceive surrounding environments are the focus of urban design. Having reviewed previous researches and theories in relation to the quality of civic environments it was shown that the methods based on the people’s use of civic environments were more successful; this requires knowing the relation between the space nature، the qualities related to it and the human’s perceptual knowledge complexities and differences to read such nature. Therefore، this paper، using the knowledge scope of other sciences in the fields of psychology and communicology in relation to urban design issues، has been done in response to this theoretical demand. This study، with an interdisciplinary perspective، in order to answer this question how a high-quality and desirable urban space from the perspective of users is، has explored users’ perceptual field using grounded theory and sought the meaning of quality from the users’ viewpoint by using a psychological perception as a code; in fact، codes are informative motives and indicate the meanings defined in perceptual processes. The findings show that space users’ reading is a set of physical، functional، meaning and social layers through meaning guide codes which is more accompanied by reading of physical aspects of an environment.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This study, with an interdisciplinary perspective, in order to answer this question how a high-quality and desirable urban space from the perspective of users is, has explored users’ perceptual field using grounded theory and sought the meaning of quality from the users’ viewpoint by using a psychological perception as a code; in fact, codes are informative motives and indicate the meanings defined in perceptual processes.
thesis of the first author (Elham Mansouri) titled "Formulation of Reading Process and Designing Urban Space by Decoding and Encoding of Environment Content" researched in Department of Art and Architecture, Science & Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, under supervisory of Dr. Hamid Majedi and co-supervisory of Dr. Farah Habib in 2015.
Having benefited from the advantage of these theories and experiences and with emphasis on theories focused on meaning and perceptual domains, the present paper is to answer the question, "Having taken into consideration all theoretical and professional perspectives and conceptual definitions presented on the quality of space, what is a high quality urban space from the standpoint of users?" The necessity of this study becomes more evident when the public needs are regarded as ultimate appraisers of space more and more.
As it was argued, the main question of present research is, &quot;How the space qualities and characteristics are perceived by users?&quot; <H2>METHODOLOGY</H2> The present paper is a qualitative study known as grounded theory which has been conducted by using the processing of information obtained from semi-structured interviews with urban space users.