A Morphological Approach to Characterization of Urban Space in Historical Structure of Cities in Iran

New developments within the traditional settings in the city centers have transformed the identity of constructed places leading to a gap between the characters of urban space and its users. The reason lies in the fact that the core of every urban space in traditional historic city was based on many years of history and humanenvironment interaction. On contrary, modern patterns of cityscapes show little awareness or any indication of awareness about their historical or cultural past. In other words, new architectural and urban designs and constructions, and even historic preservation programs and projects are not only integrated with the existing texture, but also create a sense of disconnection and strangeness. Therefore, it is necessary to study characteristics of urban space in historic urban cores on the basis of characterization of the past patterns of the urban life with intention to transfer the historic legacy to next generations. This paper is an attempt to reveal main characteristics of urban spaces in historic core of Iranian cities with intention to help the urban planners and designers searching for causes of destruction of urban core in traditional cities of Iran.