Strategic Planning For Old Urban Texture by Considering Passive Defence (Case study: Yazd)

Today, the needs to plan for sustainability is increasingly important to the city and settlement system of Yazd in order to countermeasure the security risks. Such risks include urban terrorist attacks, riots, anarchy, war and natural disasters such as earthquake, which threatens the development and security of the area due to inherent problems which provides a dysfunctional situation.
To recognize the intervention strategies aimed to improve and reduce vulnerability of Yazd old texture, this investigation is carried out by measuring the elites’ points of views in the Questionnaire of SWOT model, (evolved and completed in AHP method) and matrix was quantitatively planned and intervention strategies of Yazd city were developed.
Surveys based on the SWOT analysis in connection with effective factors makes it clear that urban management performance in the city management, road network, rehabilitation and housing development in order to improve safety and security in the city of Yazd old texture have been unsuccessful and so in order to overcome the inherent and potential threats, it shows that the strengths and opportunities in the distressed area havent been exploited properly. This is confirmed by internal factors evaluation matrix with the 2.77 and external factors evaluation matrix with the 3.05 which indicates the need to approach them in a Chart exhibit, to overcome the available threats. Finally strategies such as the production of safe space, accelerating the depopulation by modifying the road network and presenting the safe sample construction by urban management, are suggested which include the passive defense municipal operational programs