Investigating The Internal And External Factors Of Imam Street In Sirjan To Create Urban Space, Emphasizing On The Elderly’s Need
Abstract
Khatere Eghtedary
Aging is one of sensitive and critical steps of human’s growth. Investigating the limitations and needs arising from aging will significantly affect providing an appropriate environment from them. The aim of this paper is to investigate internal and external factors to create appropriate urban space, emphasizing the elderly’s need. This study is applied one in terms of goal and descriptive of the case study type (Imam Street in Sirjan, Kerman) in terms of methodology. To collect data, library method through note taking and field study through the tools of recording images were used. The variables of the study include urban space, the elderly and the needs of elderly in urban space. The criteria and features are obtained from valid library references and used in optimal designing form. Investigating the matrix of investigating internal factors (identifying the strengths and weaknesses) and the matrix of evaluating external factors (identifying opportunities and threats of the area) indicated that total score of internal factors to create urban space, emphasizing on the elderly’s need in Sirjan was 5.47, indicating the strength of internal factors. The score of external factors was obtained as 4.98, showing that the area hasn’t been able to exploit the factors, creating opportunity or avoid the threatening ones.
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