Behavioral Setting in Naghsh-e Jahan Square
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A behavioral setting is a social unit with behaviors and activities that occur frequently in a place. Each behavioral setting includes some micro behavioral settings that produce positive behaviors alongside determined goals in the environment or contrary to its definition and even negative behaviors. To identify the factors influencing the creation of these positive and negative behaviors, it is necessary to examine and analyze the fixed, semi-fixed, and non-fixed elements of the environment in a behavioral station such as Naghsh-e Jahan Square, which includes various of the micro behavioral settings and its results use in creating other behavioral settings, such as urban squares, which today are used only as transit nodes and not in their original definition as urban space, for revitalization and revival. The research method is descriptive-analytical and first studies the subject’s framework through the library documents, then using the observation method and getting presented in the Naghsh-e Jahan Square, with analyzing the observations on the interactions of the behavioral patterns, analyses are presented then through the Depth map software and by Spacesyntax method, the plan of square space has been analyzed, then the results were compared and adapted with the observations. The results showed that furniture and green space as semi-fixed elements in the field are not responsible for creating appropriate behaviors and have created a kind of confusion for people in different zones and inappropriate behaviors with the environment and the reason for the success of Naghsh-e Jahan Square as a behavioral setting and urban square is its architectural skeleton that plays an important role as a fixed element of space.
Keywords: Behavioral setting, Naghsh-e Jahan Square, Space Syntax
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