Abstract
The structure of a city can be affected by many factors, such as environmental, economic, social, political, dominant intellectual parties and urban patterns of the world. Textural-spatial structure of the city is resultant of all forces that causes a settlement forms or constructed and has objective and subjective impressions. Development of the city had a descending and ascending trend, due to various events in all historical periods. Today, knowledge about spatial structure of the city and the reasons were dominated on its spatial expansion are needed to control its expansion and is one of the important effective factors on success rate of urban planners and designers. Textural- spatial structure of the Isfahan city which is formed quit and slowly during the different historical periods following the climatic, social, economic and intellectual parties in its own time; since the 1300 H.S, for many reasons, it has been undergoing evolution and transformation and then there have occurred various problems in the urban system. In such a way that, the Isfahan city which in olden times by having compact pattern was benefited from the social, economic and environmental advantages of this pattern, but along with the development of the city, it gradually getting away from this pattern. This paper with purpose of identifying factors affecting the textural-spatial structure of cities, is looking for analysis and identify the historical trend of expansion of Isfahan city and determines effective factors on it during the time using descriptive-analytic and historical research method and applying the qualitative-descriptive factors analysis. The results of this research show that, at first, natural factors, especially climatic conditions were among the most influential factors on the growth and development of Isfahan. But in subsequent periods, social, economic, political factors and especially dominant intellectual parties had a significant effect on the textural-spatial structure of the city.
Highlights
The city is local-spatial phenomenon, which is created at a particular point, growths and evolves during the time and changes its quantitative changes to qualitative changes required by its era.So dealing with the problem of city, urban space and its texture to fulfill Immediate and future needs of residents, requires a process that is started from the philosophy of the city, grows and develops in local – time and ends to space by Scientific-practical research
After the Safavid era, due to the transfer of the capital from Isfahan, as well as the subjecting under industrial revolution and modern urbanization, Isfahan did not have clear and stable center and residential districts form the main structure of the city in this era
Rapid physical changes in present time had a negative impact on the spatial structure of the historic city of Isfahan
Summary
The city is local-spatial phenomenon, which is created at a particular point, growths and evolves during the time and changes its quantitative changes to qualitative changes required by its era. Dealing with the problem of city, urban space and its texture to fulfill Immediate and future needs of residents, requires a process that is started from the philosophy of the city, grows and develops in local – time and ends to space by Scientific-practical research. This is the end of beginning of other scrutiny. This article discuss this question that: What changes are applied to the textural-spatial structure of Isfahan city during its historical continuity and what factors have influenced this growth and development? According to these questions, the paper aims to by achieving the following goals to find answers for discussed question: (a) studying and reviewing the development and evolution manner of the Isfahan city with emphasis on its spatial- textural structure, to identify and explain the effective factors on texturalspatial structure of Isfahan city in order to control its spread and preventing the textural, social, environmental and economic problems and insufficiency arising from unbridled and scattered growth of cities
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