IS THERE ANY ROOM FOR PUBLIC? DEMOCRATIC EVALUATION OF PUBLICNESS OF PUBLIC PLACES

Authors

  • Mohammad Reza Pourjafar Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Maryam Shoaei Zangir Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Art, Esfahan,Iran.
  • Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghadam Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Rahil Farhani Department of Urban Design, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4090/juee.2018.v12n1.26-39

Keywords:

Publicness, Evaluation, Public places, VIKOR Model

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the level of publicness of public places. For fulfillment of its primary goal, this paper firstly searches deeply in existence publicness literatures. In the second part, with aim of finding appropriate model, this paper debates on previous models of publicness and represents a democratic evaluation through a multi-criteria decision making model. Evaluating by people has an undeniable advantage due to good experience and better knowledge of folks about their living environment. This study assesses the level of publicness by using the proposed methodology based on management, access and users dimensions. The findings of this paper shows that regardless of public places ownership, the level of publicness of Tehran cases are in the middle of a hypothetical fully public place.

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Published

2018-07-27

Issue

Vol 12, No 1 (2018)

Section

Articles

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