Sustainable Development of Iranian Historical Cities with Focus on Cultural, Historical and Architectural Identities

Abstract

"Sustainable development" refers to some solutions for non-appropriate patterns in body, spatial, social, cultural and economic in order to prevent all levels and fields that lead to negative shifts. It requires considering sustainable architecture and its formation in architectural designs for in-depth knowledge of sustainable purposes. Sustainable architecture is a process which can be repeated. The conception of sustainable is related to evaluate the value of a method. This method will be faced to current protective needs through a repetitive and durable behavior.Therefore, here this process will be consideredas the same of final product.Certaintly, sustainable architecture is able to recognize that the final product may become exhausted or replaced as require. Therevival phenomenon of urban historical and cultural basis as the concept of revitalization is very important issue considered by experts and officials based on urban economic.Some discussions have been done for this phenomenon but there is not enough study and evaluation yet. Historical and cultural basis is known as a path which involves various buildings and relatively numerous for public application with architectural identity in internal and external spaces. It is as a subject forrecognitive researches. In this study tried to consider the process of sustainable development based on historical-cultural basis.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n7p647