Designing a Lively Urban Space with the Approach of Behavioral Setting Improvement (Case Study: MIRABOLGHASEMI St., Rasht)

Nowadays, urban development plans in Iran, have been based on facilitating the vehicular movement in a deep contradiction with its past and urban settings and their importance in creating vitality, urban dynamism and promoting environmental quality in urban spaces have been neglected. Accordingly, the promotion of behavioral settings as one of the components that are effective for people's social interactions in such spaces is of particular importance.

this study seeks to provide scientific and practical solutions to promote spatial vitality in urban spaces

Mirabolghasemi Street in Rasht as a case study has been considered as one of the urban spaces created by urban development plans based merely on facilitating vehicular movement. The method used in this study is descriptive-inferential and applied. According to the population of Rasht, which was about 677,000 people, 384 questionnaires were submitted by the sample population based on Cochran formula and data were analyzed by SPSS software. Also, UCL Depthmap software and Space Syntax method were used to evaluate the structure of spatial configuration, which has been significantly correlated with vitality.

The results of correlation test between integration and connectivity show that the case study with an intelligibility level of 0.69 has a relatively proper legibility. Findings obtained from the questionnaire indicate that lack of spaces for social interaction and vehicular-oriented of the route has been considered as the most important problems of the neighborhood from the viewpoint of the statistical community.

solutions such as enhancing physical and visual quality in the urban landscape, improving environmental quality, paying particular attention to the pedestrians, improving functional and spatial quality, and promoting social, cultural and economic interactions are presented.