Abstract
Rural settlements as geographical landscape are considered as emerging through the interaction between human and environment. In recent years, the process is influenced by factors, and the changes in the physical-space texture are influenced by internal and external forces, developing problems and inadequacies of residents’ future living condition in rural settlements. In this regard, cities in geographical areas are excellent centers that have extensive effects on the process of changes in rural space through propagation patterns of habitat and livelihood practices. Amidst these, urban- village housing is formed as a half-way dwelling for optimal use by residents for such positions. Despite the strategies in villages, it require changes in form, physiognomy and is unaffected by the transformation and imitation of urban environment. In this article, the author uses a practical approach and library and field information to analyze the position of urban- village housing as a ring connection between the centers of low rural population and high urban population. In the approach, the resulting changes are caused by time and space process in rural areas, followed by urban lifestyle. The case study selected as an urban village is the City of Hamidia in Yazd. Key words: Rural, urban villages, rural housing, rural-urban relation, physical-space changes, Hamidia.
Highlights
In the recent decades, urban- village society as a country’s settlement has hierarchy in terms of the changes caused by socio-economic policies and public and private sectors; the creation of complex and close relation with urban society exposes it to many changes in the physical-space arena, and the dimension of these changes in spatial planning is recognized
The results can be useful in development planning of rural areas and cities
The issue emphasized in the approach to rural development is based on single and separate aspects
Summary
Urban- village society as a country’s settlement has hierarchy in terms of the changes caused by socio-economic policies and public and private sectors; the creation of complex and close relation with urban society exposes it to many changes in the physical-space arena, and the dimension of these changes in spatial planning is recognized. The physical-form texture of urban- village through the manifestation of culture of residents over time provides new requirements including the changes in structure and function of the society. If time and space condition of that society fails, it would cause social welfare and regional under-development, resulting in the migration of people (Taleb and Saeedi, 1996). Following this development, the issue of housing and physical space formation, which is important part of construction element in each urbanvillage, is not immune to these changes and does not lose its initial performance as a shelter. There is a need to research the urban- village housing along with other emerging components of urban and rural settlement fabric
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