TITLE:
Sustainable Urban Development with Emphasis on Worn Out Texture Regeneration (Case Study: Isfahan, Iran)
AUTHORS:
Seyed Hamidreza Rozati, Mahshad Kazemzadeh, Amirmehdi Vaseghi
KEYWORDS:
Sustainable Development, Worn Out Texture, Regeneration, Infill City Development, Isfahan
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.3 No.3,
September
10,
2015
ABSTRACT: In recent years, due to the natural population growth and immigration, demand for houses in
many of the large cities has risen. In spite of the fact that there are lots of lands which are abandoned
or occupied with inappropriate uses as worn out texture in down towns, large cities have
the problem of physical disintegration and unplanned development towards farming lands and
suburb gardens which will result in huge unsustainability in different dimensions including economic,
social, physical and environmental. Using the potentials of worn out textures in down towns
is one of the solutions, which has been noted in literature of infill city developments in recent
years in order to achieve a sustainable development. In this research, potentials of worn out texture
of the city of Isfahan as a sustainable approach for future development have been investigated
and some solutions have been suggested in order to have an optimal guidance which is based on regeneration
of worn out textures. Methodology of the research is descriptive and analytic and is
identically practical. The data have been gathered through librarian references, observation and
questioners. After it, the area of worn out texture in down town was calculated and then through
using clustering model, the number of houses needed in the city of Isfahan in the year 2025 was
estimated. The results of the research indicate that in inner city context of Isfahan, due to the existence
of the worn out textures, providing house is approachable and worn out texture regeneration
can be considered as a sustainable approach for future urban development.