Revitalization Strategies for Historical Squares, Case Study: Sahebabad Square

Humans have allocated some places to group activities during their historical life. One of these places is square. In spite of mass memories from squares the significance of square as the identity source of city، the vanishing of historical squares is important challenge in existing cities. With this regard، the purpose of this study is to identify strategies for regeneration of Tabriz SahebAbad historical square. This study is an applied research with descriptive- explanatory methodology. Data were collected by questionnaire from 30 experts and analyzed by SWOT technique. The SWOT technique was used in order to identify the weakness and strengthens opportunities and threats in three stages based on the matrix of inner factors and matrix of external factors and comparative matrix. According to the results of this study، there are 6 strengthening points and 9 weakness points in inner factors. There are also 9 factors as the external threats and 7 factors as external opportunities. The results show that، while Saheb Abad square currently is faced with some threats and weaknesses، it is possible fot it to become an important cultural- historical center.