Assessment of the Perception of the Meaning of Place in Information Era (A Case Study of Traditional and Modern Urban Space in Isfahan)

The evolution of information has brought a type of space as cyberspace into the urban landscape. Considering the necessity of coordinating with this global movement and the importance of the meaning of the place as one of the most important qualitative variables in the environment, research in the field of studying and recognizing the effects of cyberspace on people's perception, attachment and belonging to place and space is of particular importance. Meaning of finding any place is inseparably integrated with human perception of that space, for improving quality of urban spaces, is important to examine the factors that are important in individual perceptions. Study believes that individuals based on amount of cyberspace use are faced with different effects of understanding place and its different dimensions with presence in real space. Purpose of study is to evaluate effect of the amount of people using cyberspace on perception of meaning of their location in real space. Two traditional and modern urban spaces of Isfahan have been selected and studied by the statistical population of the visitors. Research is essentially functional and descriptive-analytic in terms of purpose. Method is correlation and statistical tests used to determine the relationship, intensity and direction of relationship between independent and dependent variables. Fourth components of perception tested in study. Perception of the place meaning of people from the real environment affected by their use of cyberspace that the physical component of perception is the highest and the individual component of perception has the least correlation with it.