Strategic Planning to Organize the Urban Historic Fabric Emphasizing on the Environmental Concerns

Abstract

Considering numerous problems related to the old textures, sustainable development can<br />be mentioned as the most efficient approach to avoid consequent shortcomings. The methodology adopted<br />in the present paper is of analytical–descriptive type. Using the mentioned method, the data were<br />collected through the field and documentary studies. The statistical society of present paper includes<br />specialists in the field of urban planning who played an important role in the renovation of old textures in<br />Amol, a city in the northern part of Iran. By observing the social, economic, and environmental<br />characteristics in the studied region, and by interviewing the residents in Amol‘s old textures, the SWOT<br />analysis, the analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats using qualitative method, was<br />adopted in order to detect the old textures. To analyze the data, SPSS and Excel software programs were<br />used. In this paper, efforts have been made to analyze the renovation of old urban textures as having in<br />mind the sustainable development. To organize the old textures in Amol, the ST type strategy was<br />adopted from diverse strategies in this paper. The mentioned strategy mainly focuses on the internal<br />strengths in order to eliminate the external threats.