Relationship between Values and Assessment Values with Conservation Approach in Iranian Historical Cities

Abstract

Value literally means to assess the worth of something against something else. The importance of<br />the assessment of this word in the economic areas in a few past years has led the recognition of urban values especially<br />in their historical parts. It is hypothesis that recognition, assessment, and introducing the existing values in historical<br />cities have a direct relationship with the selection of the intervention approach in the process of conservation and<br />development. The purpose of research, considering the mentioned assumption, is to find a response for this question:<br />How do the existing values in historical cities affect the process of selection of the intervention approach? This study is<br />a fundamental-theoretical research that has been done by interpretational-historical method and the selection statistical<br />population are the four cities of Isfahan-Shiraz-Tehran- and Mashhad among Iran's historical cities in order to special<br />urban values. Obtained results show identifying and introducing the existing values in historical cities, in past century,<br />has directly been related to the selection the intervention approach in Iran's cities and regarding cases in which the<br />results were not proportional to predicted goals, it was because of neglecting the existing values in cities and nonmaterial<br />values such as artistic, social, economic, and political values are related to the urban fabric values of historical<br />cities and the removal of physical values would cause the removal other values of Iran's cities.