Street Music, Urban Public Art and Urban Planning (Creative Urban Development with Emphasis on Creating People-oriented Urban Spaces) Case study: A Comparative Analysis of Shahrchai and Khayyam Jonubi Districts of Urmia City

Samadi, Ali; Jahangirzadeh, Javad; Abedini, Asghar; Saket Hasanloui, Meysam

Street Music, Urban Public Art and Urban Planning (Creative Urban Development with Emphasis on Creating People-oriented Urban Spaces) Case study: A Comparative Analysis of Shahrchai and Khayyam Jonubi Districts of Urmia City

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

A. Samadi ¹

J. jahangirzadeh ²

A. Abedini ³

M. saket hasanloui ⁴

¹ PhD student of Urban Planning, Department of Urban Planning, Central Tehran Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Urmia University

³ Associate Professor of Urmia University

⁴ Master's degree, Urmia University

Abstract

Problem: The concept of urban public art and its emergence in the public sphere is one of the most important factors in strengthening and accelerating the process of the creative city. Street music as an urban public art, is an influential event in urban communities that seeks to improve the quality of social life, strengthen collective memories, increase the level of vitality and dynamism of the city and achieve creative urban development.
Target: The authors try to redefine the importance and significance of the urban public arts event in urban spaces, identify the feasibility of performing street music in social environments. The green corridor of Shahrchai and the Khayyam Jonubi sidewalk of Urmia city have been studied.
Method: In this regard, in the present study, information has been collected with the aim of application and descriptive-analytical nature and by using documentary-library methods, questionnaire and interview tools. The statistical population and sample size consist of two groups of experts, thinkers and university professors and active members of street music, which includes 60 samples including stratified or group sampling method. For quantitative analysis, the methods of Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Spearman Correlation, Swara and Cocoso have been used.
Result: According to the findings, the social, cultural and environmental dimensions and the indicators of "possibility of live music performance" and "quality of environmental design" have gained the highest and lowest levels of importance, respectively. Also, the green corridor of Shahrchai has more favorable conditions than the performance of urban Public arts (street music) compared to the Khayyam Jonubi sidewalk of Urmia.

Keywords

street music

Public art

creative urban development

Khayyam Jonubi and Shahrchai

Urmia

Subjects

Art and Creativity in the City

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