The Rehabitilation and Renewal of Old Urban Textures: The Transformation of Threats to Opportunities

Urban old textures can be regarded as a disease in city structures. Many factors cause such illness including, lack of obedience from an orderly program, spatial and physical factors, environmental, economic, and social causes, and so on. The damaging effects of each of these factors reduces environmental values of the cities. This results in a pause in the renewal of urban old textures.Despite some imaginations that argue: The old urban textures are costly for the government, many countries take this as a golden opportunity for economic development, unemployment reduction, strengthening residential buildings, and the increasing of settlements. For overcoming such an urban problem, and with the aim of environmental promotion of cities, there is a need for replanning and renewing of old urban textures with a better exploitation of public participation.