The Role of Culture in Shaping the Spatial Structure of Tehran

The human being is influenced by the environment and affects it. So if we care about the man and his life, it is necessary to take care about his habitat and its spatial structure. Although much research has been conducted about the factors affecting the spatial structure, it is rarely seen from the perspective of culture. However, it seems that culture is one of the components affecting the spatial structure of the city. This study seeks to answer this question whether the spatial structure has a relationship with culture of Tehran? Hence, first the culture and its dimensions are analyzed from the perspectives of different scientists and theorists, and different models are proposed in order to analyze the culture, and finally the Shine model and its proposed indicators are chosen and changes are done according to the issue assumptions. Then we examined the spatial structure, and by proposing definitions provided by various thinkers we extracted its components and indicators from the definition by prominent architect, Frank Lloyd Wright about space, and investigated its different aspects. Finally, a main hypothesis and seven sub-hypotheses were proposed by investigating the interaction between components and variations of culture with the components and variable of spatial structure using correlation, finally after collecting and analyzing data, chi-square test results confirmed the hypotheses. The statistical society of study was the elite group of urban management including university professors, experts and scholars of the city council, and finally suggestions were provided for using the research achievements in the process of urban management.