آرش محمد مرادي

Today, the low level of sense of place and lack of sense of attachment and identity of residents in many urban areas are important issues in dealing with historical Fabrics due to transformations and disproportionate changes to the substrate, especially in historical regions The historic Udallajan neighborhood has also undergone major changes such as social, physical, cultural and economic structure throughout the history and today, we can see the unfamiliar structures with the historical and previous substrate of this neighborhood which has alienated the meaning and has evacuated of feeling of its residents and its urban and architectural heritage in this historical texture, alien and meaningless. The purpose of this research is to resettlement of the concept of residence, continuation of residence and strengthening the motivation of residents in the historic and disrupted Udallajan neighborhood which examines the inner and emotional relationship between the residents of the neighborhood and their place of residence in order to achieve this goal with the psychology approach of the environment .The realization of this requires the identification of factors affecting the sense of place in the historical neighborhood of Oudlajan, so that it can be achieved by recognizing weaknesses and strengths to a higher level of feeling of attachment to place, dependency and identity. This research, by survey method, examines the Identifying the constituent elements of the sense of place in the historical neighborhood of Imamzadeh Yahya, as a declining neighborhood. For this purpose, after collecting information about the subject among the resources such as articles, books, dissertations and reports, using content analysis method, it will be organized the information and the component coding and factors influencing the sense of place. 113 components based on the Panther Triple Model and extracted from resources, and the proposed field, which is based on the literature of the subject, is added to the Panther model (1991) and it is categorized in four dimensions: physical, activity, semantic and individual-social. In order to validate the proposed categorization and summarize the components in the next step, the Delphi technique was used. So, the findings in the first phase were shared with three experts and specialists and changes were created in categories according to them. The results of this phase led to the reduction of components to 71 cases. In the second step, in order to identify the most important factors, questionnaires were distributed to 17 specialists based on the Likert scale valuation system, specifically in historical textures. Then, after collecting and analyzing the data of the second phase of the Delphi technique, we obtained a collection of 30 most important components of sense of place in the historical textures. The identification of the most important components of the Udlagan neighborhood is indispensable in order to enhance the sense of place. For this purpose, the assessment of the place's sense of place and its components was done individually. First, Understanding the main factors of residence and the cognitive factors of their sense of place was achieved through semi-structured interviews with residents. Then, with a quantitative approach focused on individuals and their experience, the sense of place was measured based on the attitude theory and its components using the questionnaire tool. In the next step we deal with the relationship between the sense of place of the inhabitants and its components, using Pearson correlation test. Cronbach's alpha coefficient in this study with number (0.959), indicates the validity and reliability of its results. The results showed that, the residents of the Oudlajan neighborhood's sense of place is low in total and the residents' dissatisfaction with physical, social, activity and semantic factors in the neighborhood can be mentioned as some of its reasons. Meanwhile, the weakest components of the sense of place for residents, are safety and security and location cleanliness and in contrast, the existence of a historical and old building and historical value of the neighborhood satisfied residents and it's easy to find directions by residents in this neighborhood. But these factors do not necessarily affect the sense of place of the inhabitants and correlation test showed that "feeling comfortable and calmness", "The vitality and freshness of the neighborhood," and "memories" with high correlation coefficient are the most effective components of sense of place in this neighborhood. Also, the correlation test showed that there is a meaningful relationship between the sense of place of the inhabitants and their sense of honor due to their presence in the neighborhood. an‎d the high level of sense of place makes the residents be more likely to consider themselves as their own neighborhood. But finding directions in this neighborhood has not made a meaningful relationship with the sense of place of its inhabitants, that means despite the ease of finding the paths, this component has not had much impact on improving the sense of place. The results also indicate that the existence of a historical building in the neighborhood of Imamzadeh Yahya and despite the residents' interest in it, this does not enhance the sense of place in the inhabitants and it is only one of the existing capabilities.