Analyzing the Sociability Potential of Golha Street, Kermanshah, Iran

摘要

Detailed This paper is the initial part of ongoing doctoral research at the department of architecture and urban design at RWTH Aachen University, aiming to study the sociability potential of urban spaces in global scale in the Kermanshah city in Iran and Golha street in local scale as one of the densest urban areas from socio-economic and urban fabric perspective. To achieve this purpose a mixed research methodology in three steps is implemented, including library research, then integration analysis of the spatial configuration of Kermanshah city and Golha Street through space syntax method (depthmap) in both global and local analysis and a field study based on a questionnaire technique in which the gathered data are analyzed with SPSS software. The comparative analogy of the results of depthmap and questionnaire shows there is a meaningful relationship between the higher integrated urban spaces in Kermanshah city, specially Golha Street and sociability potential the urban spaces based on the indicators of the questionnaire.