An Analysis of Utility Criteria in Isfahan Safavid Social Spaces, Case Study: social Spaces of Isfahan Historical context

Today, social spaces have become a Emancipation way from mechanical life, high speed, and Enormous potential for attracting citizen and tourists, to increase the level of participation and vitality of cities, along with their impact on the surrounding urban texture has been proven in many successful global examples, for this reason many urban professionals and managers in recent years have emphasized the necessity of building, recreate and equip Iranian cities with these types of spacesThe present study aimed to evaluate social spaces existing in the historical texture of Isfahan, as one of the ancient and historic cities of Iran, during the prosperity of one of the governments that focused on urban planning, and this paper also examines the weaknesses and strengths of these types of spaces.In the first step in the present study, urban space, public space, and social space have been defined and the presence of these spaces in historical texture, and also social spaces of Isfahan in the Safavid era have been described. Then, based on experts’ opinions on the definition of social space, prominent social spaces of Isfahan have been evaluated. In the next step, elites of this field helped us explain the components of assessment and conduct a survey, and their consensus on the spaces was evaluated so that at the end, to develop a more accurate model of utility criteria of social spaces in historical textures can be proposed.