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2018 , Vol. 7 >Issue 4: 588 - 599

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2018.06.004

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Territorial behaviors and integration between buildings and city in urban public spaces of Iran' smetropolises

  • Mansour Yeganeh ,
  • Mansoreh Kamalizadeh
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  • Department of Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Received date: 02 Nov 2017

Revised date: 14 Jun 2018

Accepted date: 26 Jun 2018

Published date: 02 Jan 2019

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2018 2018 Higher Education Press Limited Company. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi. This is an open access article under the CCBY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Abstract

This paper studies the relationship between citizens' territorial behaviors and the levels and criteria of" integration of buildings and city in urban public spaces" (IBCUPS). The hypothesis of this research is that the levels of perception and integration criteria, of city and its buildings, will diverse based on citizens territorial behaviors. This theoretical proposition is analyzed in 7 urban streetsat 3 Metropolises of Iran, by descriptive-analytical research method, followed by survey to serve the empirical aspect of research, which conducts within the framework of fuzzy logic. The results show a co-variation between the levels of territorial behavior and perception of integration. However, the criteria of integration between buildings and city were different in various urban public spaces according to the levels and types of citizens' territorial behaviors.

Key words： Tehran; Tabriz; Mashhad; Territoriality; Public SpaceQuality; Integrity ofpublic spaces

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Mansour Yeganeh , Mansoreh Kamalizadeh . Territorial behaviors and integration between buildings and city in urban public spaces of Iran' smetropolises[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2018 , 7(4) : 588 -599 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2018.06.004

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