Making Appropriate of Urban Spaces for socio-cultural activities(Case Study: Bazaar of Tehran)

Maroofi, Sakineh

Making Appropriate of Urban Spaces for socio-cultural activities(Case Study: Bazaar of Tehran)

Document Type : Brief Communication

Author

S. maroofi

Assistant Professor in Department of Urban Planning& Design, Buein Zahra Technical University, Buein Zahra, Qazvin, Iran

Abstract

Cultural activities can play a key role in communication between people in a city and help the identification of the space and people through the social memories’ creation. Nowadays, performing rites in Iran as an access to identification and displaying of our culture and tradition, lost their past values and it is necessary to pay attention to them and their magnificent role in the improvement of the urban spaces. In this research, the area around the grand bazaar in Tehran in the center of the city where thousands of people go for everyday shopping and has traditional places like Golestan palace which attracts many tourists every year, has been selected as a study case. Bazaar has always been the significant cultural-social pivot in the center of the cities and every year many social activities such as religious rites like Ta’zieh and Moharam mourning are held in this place. In this research, with the use of analytical-defined method and historical documents in order to reach more information about concepts and after the study of different cases in other parts of the world, the analysis of this case study has been done and in the end, the essential measures have been suggested for the improvement of this place for holding the social rites which emphasize that it is possible to provide the bilateral communication between public urban spaces and these events.

Keywords

urban spaces"

social and cultural activities"

Tehran grand Bazaar"

Performing Arts"

Subjects

Quality of Urban Public Spaces

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