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Elahi S. The Necessity of Enhancing Resilience and Employing
A Multi-Scale Approach in Urban Master Plans. مکتب نقدنظر 2025; 1 (2) :10-15
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Ph.D. Student in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Technology Sydney
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In recent decades, with the increase in Tehran's population due to high migration from other cities and housing affordability challenges, the construction of densely populated satellite towns in suburban areas has gained popularity in urban projects. However, research and empirical evidence suggest that in such mass development projects, primarily aimed at addressing the population crisis and driven by an economic efficiency approach, the community, which is the fundamental factor for social stability, receives minimal attention. This ultimately leads to a weakening of resilience and severe social instability at various urban scales. On one hand, master plans with a governance approach in mass development projects eliminate the neighbourhood system. On the other hand, designers, by neglecting social sustainability concepts as the main guarantee of urban project success, focus solely on economic issues, viewing these urban spaces as mere turbulent settlements. These settlements, formed by migrants from different cities with different cultural perspectives living together, impose a complex social layer on the region. The social challenges created, often alongside economic challenges, financial instability, environmental issues, and urban infrastructure weaknesses, exert significant pressure on the urban fabric as a dynamic socio-ecological system. This research aims to highlight the importance of using a multi-scale approach in top-down plans, emphasizing the role of the neighbourhood scale as the main shaper of urban structure and the soul of the city for daily life and urban social interactions. Therefore, it is expected that master plans examine urban development projects at various scales, from neighbourhoods to satellite towns, districts, regions, and cities, overlapping complex social layers with environmental layers for analysis and understanding.
In recent decades, with the increase in Tehran's population due to high migration from other cities and housing affordability challenges, the construction of densely populated satellite towns in suburban areas has gained popularity in urban projects. However, research and empirical evidence suggest that in such mass development projects, primarily aimed at addressing the population crisis and driven by an economic efficiency approach, the community, which is the fundamental factor for social stability, receives minimal attention. This ultimately leads to a weakening of resilience and severe social instability at various urban scales. On one hand, master plans with a governance approach in mass development projects eliminate the neighbourhood system. On the other hand, designers, by neglecting social sustainability concepts as the main guarantee of urban project success, focus solely on economic issues, viewing these urban spaces as mere turbulent settlements. These settlements, formed by migrants from different cities with different cultural perspectives living together, impose a complex social layer on the region. The social challenges created, often alongside economic challenges, financial instability, environmental issues, and urban infrastructure weaknesses, exert significant pressure on the urban fabric as a dynamic socio-ecological system. This research aims to highlight the importance of using a multi-scale approach in top-down plans, emphasizing the role of the neighbourhood scale as the main shaper of urban structure and the soul of the city for daily life and urban social interactions. Therefore, it is expected that master plans examine urban development projects at various scales, from neighbourhoods to satellite towns, districts, regions, and cities, overlapping complex social layers with environmental layers for analysis and understanding.
In recent decades, with the increase in Tehran's population due to high migration from other cities and housing affordability challenges, the construction of densely populated satellite towns in suburban areas has gained popularity in urban projects. However, research and empirical evidence suggest that in such mass development projects, primarily aimed at addressing the population crisis and driven by an economic efficiency approach, the community, which is the fundamental factor for social stability, receives minimal attention. This ultimately leads to a weakening of resilience and severe social instability at various urban scales. On one hand, master plans with a governance approach in mass development projects eliminate the neighbourhood system. On the other hand, designers, by neglecting social sustainability concepts as the main guarantee of urban project success, focus solely on economic issues, viewing these urban spaces as mere turbulent settlements. These settlements, formed by migrants from different cities with different cultural perspectives living together, impose a complex social layer on the region. The social challenges created, often alongside economic challenges, financial instability, environmental issues, and urban infrastructure weaknesses, exert significant pressure on the urban fabric as a dynamic socio-ecological system. This research aims to highlight the importance of using a multi-scale approach in top-down plans, emphasizing the role of the neighbourhood scale as the main shaper of urban structure and the soul of the city for daily life and urban social interactions. Therefore, it is expected that master plans examine urban development projects at various scales, from neighbourhoods to satellite towns, districts, regions, and cities, overlapping complex social layers with environmental layers for analysis and understanding.
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Received: 2025/09/6 | Accepted: 2025/09/1 | Published: 2025/09/1
Received: 2025/09/6 | Accepted: 2025/09/1 | Published: 2025/09/1
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