SOCIO-CULTURAL CRITERIA FOR COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TOWARD PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN OF URBAN SPACES

Authors : Shirin SOTODEH, Mohammadjavad MAHDAVINEJAD, Siavash SOTODEH

Pages : 23-43

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Publication Date : 2018-09-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Nowadays Tourism is one of the most important strategic tools for economic development of each country, which has a direct impact on the increase of revenue, prosperity and development of different regions and contributes to improving the quality of each country`s cultural, social and political relationships. It is significant to understand consideration of importance of the subject, the purpose of this research is to examine the role of the physical, functional, conceptual and environmental factors on the tourism environment and understanding of city metabolism in the framework of sustainable development for optimizing the quality of destinations, life style, attraction of tourism and Utilizing the environmental quality value system and making the city attractive. The method of this research is analytical-descriptive and survey. First, we achieved to the criteria of the quality by Literature Review, and then experts prioritized them. Subsequently, these components were scored according to the polling process. Using multiple criteria decision-making, which includes `DEMATEL` and `ANP` methods, the DEMATEL method, is used to visualize the structure of complicated causal relationships between criteria and obtain the influence level of these criteria. Moreover, these influence level values are adopted as the base of normalization super matrix for calculating ANP weights to obtain the relative importance. By the concept of ideal point, some important conclusions drawn from a practical application can be referred by practitioners that we evaluated and measured the most important criteria for coding the performance of urban spaces. On the one hand  The results show that the factors of `symbolic `,`materials, and colors`, `latent energy`, `access and permeability `,`Energy consumption` ,are the most effective  to enhance the quality of the environment .on the other hand `vitality `,`environmental comfort` ,`sense of belonging`, `security, `ecosystem stability `are the most affected factor by environment respectively.
Keywords : Socio Cultural Criteria, Performance Based Design, Urban Spaces, DEMATEL method