Aroma charArchitectural Planning For Preservation Of Identity In Contemporary Urban Landscape

Abstract

Urban identity can be defined as the intuition of the citizens concerning the unique appearance of a city, which unifies environmental, historical, socio-cultural, functional, and spatial values in urban space which is a major issue in contemporary architecture due to ongoing deterioration in older cities worldwide. Progressive increase in the number of people living in cities may be due to the fact that cities provide better economic, political, and social services compared to the rural areas. This rapid population growth, proved harmful effect to the city's survival, consequently, many problems as side effects of urbanization emerged. The aim and objective of this research is to analyze these problems in order to propose an effective tool to understand whether the urban development process is sustainable or need to be corrected. Based on Likert scale, a questionnaire for the purpose of gathering information from respondents in survey research was for feedbacks. Relative importance index (RII) based on Likert scale was used to rank out data on Identity and its role in Architecture. Results showed that the role of culture, religious, values and norms, space, climate, form, function and material in identity formation were assigned with greater utility to smaller ranges respectively which could be considered as most effective factors in creating architecture identity in contemporary urban landscape. In addition, these factors were classified into four categories namely; Cultural parameters (Culture, symbols, values and norms, religious), Human activities (Space, form, function), Climate pattern (Climate) and artificial material (Material). Results indicated that cultural parameters should be first priority and human activities, climate pattern and artificial material are in the second, third and fourth priority respectively.