An analysis of the physical factors influencing the place attachment in the old center of Sabzevar

The place attachment could cause transforming the space into the place with the sensory properties and special behavioral for the people. Pay attention to strengthen of the place attachment,especially in the old centers and the historical context of cities, is one of the most important subjects of urban design knowledge. Various investigations in the literature indicate that attention to physical elements in human environment is necessary for the formation and continuation of satisfaction form the place and place attachment. The goal of this article is to extract the physical features in order to form and promote this sense and measure these features in one of the oldest street in Sabzevar city which is called “Beyhagh”. In the first step, by using theoretical literature, physical factors influencing the place attachment are extracted and classified in the form of norms and measures that the method used in this part of the qualitative type.In the next step, situation assessment the Beyhagh street have been completed using these resulting features with SPSS software. The results studied place show that two features include “variety and attractiveness” and “unit physical character” have the most correlation with place attachment and the flexibility feature has the least correlation with this sense