Applying a Structural Equation Model to Evaluate the vitality and Dynamism Enhancement Components in the Post-Industrial Areas . Case Study : Pars Electric Factory in Rasht

Document Type : Descriptive & Survey

Authors

1 Imam Khomeini International University (RA)

2 Assistant Professor , Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning , Imam Khomeini International University , Qazvin , Iran ,

Abstract
Problem: With the development of urbanization and the need to pay attention to environmental aspects, industrial areas within the city have been abandoned and destroyed. Pars Electric factory in Rasht city has become a place for garbage and drug addicts to accumulate during nearly two decades of closure and has created dangers for the area.

Target : The purpose of the article is to examine the components of vitality in order to revive the post-industrial arena of this collection.

Method: In this regard, information has been collected by using library-documentary methods, questionnaires and interviews. Vitality components based on theoretical literature were extracted and randomly distributed among 312 people in the form of a questionnaire, and the results were subjected to second-order confirmatory factor analysis in Smart PLS.

Findings : Safety and security with a path coefficient of 0.878 shows the strong and direct impact of this factor on increasing the vitality of Pars Electric Factory in Rasht. The factors of sense of place, legibility, climatic comfort, social justice and sensory richness express 55, 48, 44, 42 and 36 percent of the changes in increasing the dynamism and vitality of the post-industrial landscape of Pars Electric respectively.

Result: Definition of areas, monitoring and control, proper lighting, establishment of 24-hour activities, creation of interactive spaces are among the proposed measures with high priority to strengthen the two factors of safety and security and sense of place in order to improve the vitality of the said site.

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