Design Principles for Secure and Sociable Local Community: Case study - Chizar

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Neda Sadat Sahragard Monfared
Hashem Hashemnejad
Seyed Abbas Yazdanfar

Abstract

Sustainable development covers different environmental, social and economic dimensions. In this paper, we discuss social aspects of sustainability emphasize that a local community center should include security and sociability concepts. Therefore, the objective of the paper is finding suitable design principles that could increase these two concepts. The methodology of the article is survey and case study. The selected site is CHIZAR local community in Tehran. The paper will conclude that some design principles such as diversity in function, visibility, Attractive Street frontages and stay area increase security and sociability concepts.

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Monfared, N.S.S. , Hashemnejad , H. and Yazdanfar , S.A. 2021. Design Principles for Secure and Sociable Local Community: Case study - Chizar. Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies. 6, 18 (May 2021), 17–25. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21834/ajebs.v6i18.380.

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