Formulating Regeneration Strategies for the Historical Fabric of Sanandaj City by Applying an Urban Acupuncture Approach

Nowadays, high urbanization growth has made many problems for human society and urban fabric, while urban planners do not have any suitable solution to solve the emerging problems o cities. The urban acupuncture approach means small-scale and low-cost interventions in sensitive and effective points, which can be used as an appropriate solution for improving historical fabrics' status. The extant study aims to apply urban acupuncture and the unique potentials available in the historical fabric of Sanandaj City, Iran to formulate some strategies for regeneration and increase vitality in this city. This study used a qualitative method to apply the urban acupuncture approach. To apply the urban acupuncture approach in the studied area, the considered principles were examined and divided into three categories: analysis and scrutinization (review of the area), determination of intervention points, and targeted measures. This study was conducted through the following steps: collecting library and bibliographic data, designing intervention zones' maps, reviewing the problems existing in the research area using Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire, analyzing problems based on the OWAS method, and generating the intervention points map. The statistical society of this study comprised residents living in the historical fabric of neighborhoods in Sanandaj City, which its data directly affects the research results. The findings indicated that urban acupuncture could provide significant changes, such as improved quality of life, presence of residents and tourists in neighborhoods, developed local economy, increase creativity, and alleviated social inequality by using some factors, including small-scale intervention, potentials available in neighborhoods, residents’ participation, cultural factors, and so forth.