Abstract
Social capital as prominent branch of sociology and social science is recently considered -though as a conceptual tool- in the field of urban design to improve urban qualities. In this study, considering that promotion of social functions in urban texture is a strategy to increase quality of citizenship life, it is tried to find some logical relationships between the level of the social capital and walkability and sociability as the qualities of urban design within social context, in order to be able to enhance social capital substrates and provide an urbanism approach to develop an operational tool the concept of social capital in urban design. This article tries to study the effects of urban qualities including walkability and sociability on the level of social capital in a community. In this respect, after offering some common definition for the concept of social science from the viewpoints of some experts in this field, and dealing briefly with the notions of walkability and sociability, the evaluation of each quality as well as its sub-qualities based on AHP technique are presented. The results from the statistical and quantified analysis of the data from questionnaires showed that there is a direct relationship between changes in the qualities and the social capital indicators; however, this relationship is not a linear one.
Highlights
Urban design is a technique and knowledge seeking to organize and improve urban qualities and increase the quality of citizenship life
In this study, based on extensive studies regarding urban qualities, social qualities as well as social capital are focused on as the parameter influenced by social relationships which is lost in most urban designs
Each of the definitions of social capital has focused on a particular aspect of it which deals with some different operational definitions of the concept
Summary
Urban design is a technique and knowledge seeking to organize and improve urban qualities and increase the quality of citizenship life. In recent researches conducted in the field of urban design, social qualities in conjunction visual, functional and spatial qualities are emphasized. In this study, based on extensive studies regarding urban qualities, social qualities as well as social capital are focused on as the parameter influenced by social relationships which is lost in most urban designs. According to the conceptual definitions of social capital, its promotion in urban contexts would not be achieved unless applying some changes to enhance the urban qualities in connection to it. Urban qualities as a tool for urban planners to promote and organize the environment have the ability to provide substrates for shaping and promoting the social capital. To understand the relationship between the social capital and the urban qualities associated with it, it is necessary to evaluate and analyze the level of changes in urban qualities and social capital. Before offering the analyses in this study, considering the various factors and urban qualities affecting the social capital, the concepts of social capital and urban qualities are briefly dealt with
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