An Analysis of Tourism Spaces in Ramsar City from the Perspective of Security Using Space Syntax Technique (Case Study: 33-Hectare Garden in Ramsar City)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Student in Architecture, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damghan, Iran.

2 Faculty Member of Architecture, Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damghan, Iran.

Abstract

One of the important characteristics of citizens' presence in urban spaces is security in public places, which causes prosperity and dynamism of the urban environment and reduces stress in creating a culture of interaction, nightlife. This becomes even more important when cultural, age, and economic differences between users of a set become more diverse and the performance of the environment requires two-way interaction between users. This article examines the need to increase security in the tourist spaces of Ramsar city. In this study, after library studies in the field of security and its parameters, in order to verify the findings and examine the physical indicators affecting the security of the tourism space, the solutions of space syntax technique are used. In the next stage, a preliminary questionnaire has been developed to identify the areas of the tourism complex, from which the zoning of behavioral mapping is obtained and is harvested in the field; It is then analyzed using Depth Mape software. This study seeks to answer the question of which parts of the tourism environment in the city of Ramsar have a greater or lesser sense of security? And what features of spatial syntax technique play a greater role in understanding space security? As a result of this study, it seems that each of the indicators responded to some of the challenges of urban space security, and in the meantime, the concavity and convexity of space and depth, has an effective role in the strategy of natural monitoring and space.

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Tourism of Culture
Volume 2, Issue 7
January 2022
Pages 13-24

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  • Receive Date: 12 December 2021
  • Revise Date: 07 January 2022
  • Accept Date: 10 January 2022

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