Strategic planning to organize the urban historic fabric emphasizing on the environmental concerns

Considering numerous problems related to the old textures, sustainable development can be mentioned as the most efficient approach to avoid consequent shortcomings. The methodology adopted in the present paper is of analytical-descriptive type. Using the mentioned method, the data were collected through the field and documentary studies. The statistical society of present paper includes specialists in the field of urban planning who played an important role in the renovation of old textures in Amol, a city in the northern part of Iran. By observing the social, economic, and environmental characteristics in the studied region, and by interviewing the residents in Amol's old textures, the SWOT analysis, the analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats using qualitative method, was adopted in order to detect the old textures. To analyze the data, SPSS and Excel software programs were used. In this paper, efforts have been made to analyze the renovation of old urban textures as having in mind the sustainable development. To organize the old textures in Amol, the ST type strategy was adopted from diverse strategies in this paper. The mentioned strategy mainly focuses on the internal strengths in order to eliminate the external threats

Transition stages from a traditional city to an industrial city [social and cultural environment of Tehran]

Some of Iran's cities, especially Tehran that is the capital city of Iran, have faced sudden changes of industrialization due to political, economic, and ecological considerations. There is no doubt that it is not possible to conduct a thorough investigation of the cultural structures of these cities by theoretical models, and they shall be evaluated in comparative and combinational terms. Because of the consideration mentioned above, different ethnicities and groups from different cultural backgrounds have been attracted to these cities, and subcultures are highly influential in socialization, acculturation, solidarity, and integration of the individuals in the society. Although one of the problems of the industrial cities all over the world, including Tehran, is migration [from towns and villages], inflexible solutions and approaches to the migration problem are not logical. In addition, recourse to the weakness of the villages and attractions of the capital can not solve the problem [as shown by the author's experience]. Therefore, it seems that creating occupational opportunities in villages and towns is one of the practical and useful ways for the survival of small towns and reduction of the migration to big cities, including Tehran