Redefinition of Pedestrian Route-Finding Networks as a Tool to Return Vitality and Responsiveness to Yazd Khan Plaza

Abstract

The requirement of communities to new urban elements has changed urban space and proportional to modern community. These changes have been realized in new urban texture within modernism framework and also in old texture as wearing framework and converted them into ill urban spaces. Removing balance in social life may appear in public scenes at historic textures with which a modern element competes including street. In order to find the most efficient strategy to compensate such imbalance, reassessment of access route networks may work effectively. This approach should notice two types of determinant factors in the path toward achievement of the main goal that is resuming comprehensive balance to life in historic texture: On the one hand, using of potential in the available communication network and on the other hand redefinition of historic elements may play role in strategic situations as the linking elements. Rather than referring to definition of vitality and responsiveness in an urban space in this article, it has been dealt with subject of reclamation and renewal of these textures that also caused responsiveness and vitality in historic urban space as well and finally Yazd Khan Plaza has been mentioned as case study in this investigation. Yazd Khan Plaza is subject to imbalance in social life as one of the social scenes in historic Yazd city due to its adjacency to street lines from Pahlavi period. This article is codified according to the aforesaid approach and proposing of executive strategies in order to resume the balance in vitality and comprehensive dynamism by strengthening and creating networks of communication walk to this precious historic complex.