Factors Affecting the Augmentation of Spatial Dynamics in Social Sustainability with an Emphasis on Human-Orientation of Space

Abstract

A place can be considered as sustainable place that meets current needs of human and considers their needs in future. Spatial dynamicity is also one of the indices of a sustainable space, which defined the relationship of space with variable needs of human. Spatial dynamicity is an index, through which space matches itself by changes in human life over the time. In other words, special dynamicity is a quality of a space, through which space is matched with changed needs of humans through changing itself. Therefore, in regard with space dynamicity and place stability, human needs are prior to other needs. This is because; in fact meeting the needs causes more social participation of people and increase in their social interactions. However, at the current world and after expansion of modernism approach, increase in attention to vehicles and their presence has decreased direct consideration of variable needs of human and their presence in space. Hence, it could be mentioned that today, presence of vehicles in space has created a big challenge for dynamicity of space. Meeting such challenge is important, since a human-oriented dynamic space can increase human interactions and can also promote place sustainability and make using space possible over the time. This study adopts a qualitative-analytical approach to find factors that can form a sustainable space through strengthening the dynamics of space and increasing level of social interactions. Findings indicate that in regard with creating any kind of change in space, in addition to consider future, past of the place should be also considered. This study has found that human scale in an important factor in this framework and considering future. Moreover, in regard with past and emphasizing effect of place on human, historical memory of space should be considered and with emphasizing effect of human on place, collective memory factor should be considered. Accordingly, through assessment of each factor, a series of strategies should be achieved based on future and a series of expected results should be achieved based on past, so that framework of a change can be specified in limit of space dynamics index.