The effects of improving valuable textures on the physical development of villages in Yazd Province

Projects for the improvement of valuable textures in rural areas pave the way for providing identity and maintenance to valuable rural architecture, making it possible repair and restore them working out new ideas and solutions to meet the needs, and proposing new ways of living along with specific respect to the genuinity of physical structures and social relations in villages. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of such projects as important tools and intervention programs planned by the government focused on the development of the villages of Islamiyah, Fahraj, Aghda, Shamsi and Kharanaqh in the province of Yazd. The research data were collected from documents (including articles, books, magazines, and web sites) and field study (using questionnaires, interviews and observation). The physical and environmental variables were identified during the data processing and then limited to 9 variables. The study sample consisted of 75 experts and specialists. The data analysis was done on the SPSS software SPSS. The results of this analytical research showed that the projects affected certain variables at the significance level of 0.01. The affected variables were revival,, repair, and beautification of  intra-structural elements such as nodes, edges, signs, centers and stripes, communication and access of neighborhoods, identity of the old core of the village, building and equipping facilities, sewage system, quality of the walls and the floors in passages (e.g. color, composition and type of materials), use of local materials in the area, presentation of local patterns, and creation of varied spaces within the village (e.g. stairs, platforms and lighting facilities). Also, the variables of efficient use of abandoned facilities and their conversion to active ones as well as the parameters of crisis management were affected by the project at the 0.5 level of significance.