[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our City: the Capacity to accept the Convergencies | Ali Kazemian Free time of citizens and their leisure enhance the quality of comfort of the town; thus, the public spaces flourish. If we take part in urban life, we feel connected and resonance with the city. Still, “being alien...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] From «place» to «space»; a reflection on the social infrastructure | Kazem Rahimi The social infrastructures are usually built for particular purposes with the continuation of people’s presence, infusing social life into the lifeless body of the community. Therefore, the social infrastructure is concrete and must be spiritual. Thus,...
Empowerment in Search of Meaning (on the incomplete poetics of rehabilitation) | Maryam Mollaei Empowerment means more multilateral power distribution, It will not be achieved except through bottom-up participatory development approaches in a community. Using the power of “weak ties” in a metropolis like Tehran, seems to be the key...
Signifiers without meaning | Alireza Khadem Despite reiterated usage of terms such as engagement, empowerment, and the local community in rhetorics, still, there is no practical attention to these terms urban projects. This rupture between theory and practice caused such rhetorics in the urban planning knowledge to be like signifiers...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Unity of Voiceless people; Human dignity dependent on formal/informal duality! | Hajar Bagheri The success of social infrastructures as the basis for the flourishing of social capital and the creation of a civil life depends on the active presence of inhabitants in the design, keeping, and maintenance of...
