A Study of Spatial Syntax of Traditional Neighborhood Structure with Catalyst Approach, Case Study: Haji Neighborhood in Hamedan

Neighborhoods are effective and important in each city. Traditional neighborhoods are also more important because of the long history they have in urban development. The Urban Catalyst approach, as effective and flexible approach in urban regeneration filed, looks for an appropriate response to return quality to neighborhoods. Targeted and minimal interventions, the participation of the main actors and the local community are the important features of urban catalyst as a new strategy of city development. The methodology of this research is interpretive-analytical that is based on reviewing important scientific documents for achieving purposeful framework to analyze a case study with space syntax theory and using AGRAPH and DEPTHMAP software to interpret the physical configuration of district. The main objective of the study is to investigate the spatial configuration in order to identify its fundamental, effective and prone areas for promoting development in line with the identity, structure, social, and economic structure of the neighborhood. The findings point to the importance of space-functional links in the original structure of traditional neighborhoods. Strong and coherent connections of the main corridor of the neighborhood on the one hand, and the high integration of the spatial organization of the center of the neighborhood, on the other hand, indicate favorable conditions for skeletons as the main axis of the residential fabric of the Haji neighborhood to stimulate development. It seems that the spatial development incentive measures can lead to the recreation of traditional neighborhoods as quickly as possible.