Vol 2, No 3 (2014) by Ali Sharghi
Increase of urbanization has pressure on the urban children's lives and physical activities. Whil... more Increase of urbanization has pressure on the urban children's lives and physical activities. While in designing of residential apartments’ open spaces, there is little attention to the children. The children, who live in the high-rise apartments found to have less physical activities. However, supposedly, children need to engage in the physical activity in the outdoor areas as WHO recommend that children take part in at least one hour of moderate physical activity in every day. This paper firstly, reviews different researches in this area. Then, it attempts to find children’s satisfaction regarding connectivity to open spaces as a dependent variable and their preferred activities, perceived safety, and familiarity about connectivity to open spaces as independent variables. The method of study is a semi-interview survey with 80 children between 6 and 12 years old (primary school ages) in two cases in Tehran. The result of this research shows that children satisfaction from open space has an effect on their outdoor activities. Therefore, the designers should be considering children physical activities needs in open spaces.
Papers by Ali Sharghi
Frontiers in Built Environment, Aug 31, 2022
Low-income housing (LIH) is subject to stigma. This study aims to measure the public attitude tow... more Low-income housing (LIH) is subject to stigma. This study aims to measure the public attitude toward it with respect to three main attitude components. The survey was carried out using an online questionnaire and non-resident sample. Using exploratory factor analysis, 11 factors were derived, including 7 cognitive factors (security, unit characteristics, spatial reputation, individual and environmental characteristics, physical attractiveness, and social interaction), 2 affective factors (feeling toward physical dimension and feeling toward residents), and 2 behavioral factors (social distance and situational behavior). Descriptive analysis may show that the attitude toward LIH is negative in Iran. Among them, physical factors related to the environment and building have the lowest scores. Thus, it is necessary to pay more attention to the reduction of LIH stigma with more interventions in the physical aspect. The regression test showed the highest correlation between the "social distance" and "feeling toward physical aspects," whereas the highest correlation was observed between the "situational behavior" and "feeling toward residents". It means outsiders are further influenced by physical factors when making distancerelated decisions. When they are in a situation with exposure to these housings, their feelings toward the residents are more important and are reflected.
Dramatically increasing urbanization and population growth bring pressure on open space within ur... more Dramatically increasing urbanization and population growth bring pressure on open space within urban areas, and the issue has affected lives of urban dwellers. In the process, significant quantities of natural resources or greenery in the urban areas have declined. Nevertheless, significant evidences from research show that contact with nature via open spaces is important for city dwellers, especially children. It is argued that children's relationship with nature is a fundamental to developing their full potential. Previous research also shows lack of playing spaces close to their urban homes and parent-limited opportunity to play outdoors. The situation has resulted less active children, lack of access to open spaces and less mobility in playing places. Lack of connection between children and nature has a physiological and psychological effect on children. Therefore, this study looks into the issue of high-rise open spaces and specifically tries to answer research questions re...
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Architectural Engineering and Design Management
Home has always been an important topic in research. In each region, houses change over time unde... more Home has always been an important topic in research. In each region, houses change over time under different economic, social, cultural, climatic, and other conditions. Although these gradual changes have occurred to improve the spatial conditions of houses, it has led to a decline in the environmental quality and sometimes their technical efficiency. It is possible to redefine contemporary housing by spatially analyzing houses and discovering genotypes in a particular climate. This study uses space syntax algorithms in the syntactic plugin in Grasshopper to conduct various analyses and combine them with visual analysis extracted from Depth Map. House genotypes are discovered by factor analysis in SPSS. The case study is the coastal and historical city of Bushehr in the south of Iran. The sample size is 45 houses from 3historical periods selected by non-random purposeful sampling. The results indicate that the houses in Bushehr have 4genotypes, each of which has positive characteris...
Increase of urbanization has pressure on the urban children's lives and physical activities. ... more Increase of urbanization has pressure on the urban children's lives and physical activities. While in designing of residential apartments’ open spaces, there is little attention to the children. The children, who live in the high-rise apartments found to have less physical activities. However, supposedly, children need to engage in the physical activity in the outdoor areas as WHO recommend that children take part in at least one hour of moderate physical activity in every day. This paper firstly, reviews different researches in this area. Then, it attempts to find children’s satisfaction regarding connectivity to open spaces as a dependent variable and their preferred activities, perceived safety, and familiarity about connectivity to open spaces as independent variables. The method of study is a semi-interview survey with 80 children between 6 and 12 years old (primary school ages) in two cases in Tehran. The result of this research shows that children satisfaction from open s...
International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Purpose The purpose of this study is to clarify changes in people-place interrelationship and hid... more Purpose The purpose of this study is to clarify changes in people-place interrelationship and hidden layers of survivors psychological challenges in the reconstructed housing environment, the 2003 Bam and 2017 Ezgeleh-Sarpol Zahab earthquakes occurred in Iran, because perception of earthquake risk in residential dwellings and traumatic experiences during and after its occurrence are among stressful events making communities face with various spectrum of emotional and cognitive consequences. Such events shape memory “traumascapes” and cause changes in mental schemas and as a result, altering decisions and behavioral responses in long-term familiar environments. Because, in the disaster-affected communities, psychological recovery will be greatly influenced by residential experiences. Design/methodology/approach The current research was performed with a qualitative and multicase study design, and data were collected using deep and semistructured private interviews and discussions in f...
Quarterly Social Psychology Research, Sep 16, 2019
هدیکچ ایند رد مهم یاه ترورض زا یکی ناونع هب نآ زا یرادربوگلا و تعیبط هب تشگزاب ثحب هزورما :هلئسم ... more هدیکچ ایند رد مهم یاه ترورض زا یکی ناونع هب نآ زا یرادربوگلا و تعیبط هب تشگزاب ثحب هزورما :هلئسم نایب نینچمه و رگیدکی هب توافتم یاه سایقم لاصتا و سایقم یریگراک هب رد یناریا نارامعم .تسا هدش حرطم رامعم هک تسا ینابز نیرت مهم شندوب درجم نیع رد هسدنه .دنا هدوب قفوم نوماریپ تعیبط اب دروخرب رد .دنیرفآ یم ار ییاضف ۀژیو یاه تیفیک نآ ۀلیسو هب ییارگ نورد ،ییارگ شیور ،ییارگ نارود( شیاه یگژیو نایب اب نشلگ غاب عوضوم هب هلاقم نیا رد :شهوژپ فده لاتکارف ۀسدنه هک یتروصرد ،تسا هدش هتخادرپ یناریا ییارآ غاب رد )یگیلادنچ ،یگنیرق ،ییارگزکرم و نیناوق و یگدز بوشآ ،یسدیلقاان ۀسدنه ،فراعتمریغ ،یمظن یب ،یطخریغ ۀسدنه( لماش ییاه یگژیو یاراد .تسا یا هسدنه شمارآ و نوکس نتشادن و شندوب ارگ تعیبط زا ینایب هک تسا )صاخ یا هناخباتک تاعلاطم ،لوا ؛تسا هلحرم ود لماش و یلیلحت-یفیصوت عون زا یقطنم للادتسا ،راک شور :شهوژپ شور زا هدش لصاح یاه هتفای نایم دیدج یا هطبار ریسفت ،مود ؛یناریا غاب ۀسدنه ینورد رابتعا نییبت یارب للادتسا و .ینوریب رابتعا نییبت تهج لاتکارف ۀسدنه اب هسیاقم و یناریا غاب زا یا هنومن ناونع هب سبط نشلگ غاب ،یه...
Iran University of Science & Technology, 2020
Today’s housing, as a private realm of human life, has changed in comparison with the past which ... more Today’s housing, as a private realm of human life, has changed in comparison with the past which was made regardless of quality, desirability, and lack of paying attention to the human needs and its psychological consequences; That is to say, residential units have turned into a set of closed spaces and their open and semi-open spaces have been merged into the urban spaces which disrupted their fundamental functions. In such a situation, reviewing and paying special attention to these spaces together with closed spaces in Tehran is really necessary. But this question is proposed that what are the indicators affecting the quality of open and semi-open spaces in contemporary housing? And how much do they affect the quality of these spaces? This research has a mixed (quantitative-qualitative) method which is applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of data collection method it is of descriptive-analytical and survey type. The statistical population includes 380 inhabitants in resident...
Journal of Housing and Rural Environment, 2019
INTRODUCTION: The imposition of quarantine in pandemics brings about negative psychological conse... more INTRODUCTION: The imposition of quarantine in pandemics brings about negative psychological consequences. Sufficient understanding based on environmental and behavioral sciences leads to the prediction of needs and preparedness. Given the role of housing and the environment on health, awareness of their effects on the COVID-19 pandemic will facilitate future actions and risk management planning. METHODS: The present cross-sectional exploratory study was conducted based on a mixedmethod approach. In the qualitative section, participants who were selected by non-probability sampling method were interviewed via phone, and data collection continued until data saturation using the snowball method. A number of 27 telephone interviews were conducted and after the content analysis of unorganized data, the questionnaire was developed in three parts, the initial pilot was conducted on 30 participants, and Cronbach's alpha was calculated at 0.76. Moreover, 144 online questionnaires were co...
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