Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods with a Community Approach to Sustainable Development

摘要

City neighborhoods, despite its historical importance, today forming the pattern of urban living have little significance. However, in recent decades in the context of sustainable development, they have been reemphasis on reducing. A vision of sustainable community development, the new approach will strengthen the city in which problems in returning to the neighborhood as the cells are thought to urban life. In the present study the recovery of new urban areas in terms of social patterns, has been Elected in a district of Tehran) in a neighborhood of Tehran's Evin (the process of restoration and sustainable community development approach in the context of neighborhood functions and were analyzed Using the principles and indicators of sustainable community development and application perspective The depth interviews and focal groups were used to examine the mental impressions and opinions of residents In improving the spatial structure and the promotion of social capital by The results show Discontinuity in the spatial structure of communities and loss of physical identity Area residents and reduce the loss of social structure through continuous communication and interaction between people is The results showed that a strong social networks and groups in local communities And create the necessary background and contexts of communication between residents of Effective feedback can lead to problems of urban residents and improve the biological With emphasis on the spatial structure of the proposed sustainability indicators that are observed in the, Can be useful in improving social interactions and relationships between residents within the local communities approach the expected This indicates that the assessments These interactions in a reversible process leading to the improvement of the spatial structure of neighborhoods and strengthen the local identity.