The role of social capital on the participation of inhabitants in Renovation of urban old texture Case study: old texture of Ardabil

Experts believe that the existence of old textures and unauthorized settlements in the country, is one of the urban diseases that involves many defects of the country in terms of economical, social, health, cultural and security, and to solve these problems and to ensure the safety of citizens against inefficient, old and decay quality of construction, these areas should be renewed and rehabilitated. This causes that urban managers shall pay attention to these textures in their real agenda. The old textures that have changed and formed as organic by participation of people over the time, today also the participation of the same people for establishing the current and future requirements, is an integral part of the renovation too. This paper, through studying the old texture of Ardabil city as a case study, by using analytical-descriptive method, tries to analyze one of the important elements of organizing these kind of textures, i.e. Inhabitant’s participation in relation with the status of social capital of old textures.The results showed a significant relation between two indices of belonging sense to the neighborhood and the local institutional trust index with the participation of the residents of the old texture and also no significant relation between the social correlation index and the participation of the residents in the process of the renovation of urban old texture.