Recognizing Cohesion’s components of the urban central Context with the connectivity approach in around area of Holly shrine of Imam Reza- mashhad city

The speed of growth and development of cities in today's modern and postmodern world has caused confusion in spatial organization, the reduction of the value of urban spaces, the loss of human scale, the disruption of hierarchies between spaces, and identity problems in the central fabric of cities, While the urban context is a wide and interconnected area of different morphologies during the life of the city within the city limits in connection with the city. Therefore, the cohesion and continuity of the city are considered to indicate the way of formation and location of the important elements and parts of the city and their relationship with each other. In fact, the structure of every city represents the coordination of the physical space of the city with the mentioned conditions and factors on the one hand, and on the other hand, the connection and continuity between these factors, with this approach, the anchor and intermediate spaces around the important urban elements that connect and They play a central role in the city, become important. Therefore, this article seeks to measure the components of the central fabric's coherence with a connecting approach in the detailed area around Imam Reza's shrine. This research is quantitative in nature, in terms of the method of carrying out survey work and with an applied purpose, which was estimated with a sample size of 374 people using Cochran's formula, and factor analysis and Pearson correlation analysis were used to analyze the findings. Finally, the results of this article show that there is a significant and direct relationship between the level of coherence of the central area of Mashhad and the values of contextual, physical, and spatial interaction with the central index element, Imam Reza Shrine. In this order, the change in the value of the mentioned three interactive indicators can have a positive or negative effect on the increase or decrease of the cohesion of the central area of Mashhad city and cause structuring and breaking of its cohesion and integration.