A STUDY OF THE LEGIBILITY OF THE NORTHERN IRANIAN CITIES IN THE WORKS OF AKBAR RADI: A STUDY OF THE PLAYS ROWZANE-YE ABI AND PELLEKAN

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MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI BEHROOZ; RABBANI ROYA

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Journal: Honarhaye Ziba- Honarhaye Memari va SHahrsazi Year:2017 | Volume:22 | Issue:3 Page(s): 83-90

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A STUDY OF THE LEGIBILITY OF THE NORTHERN IRANIAN CITIES IN THE WORKS OF AKBAR RADI: A STUDY OF THE PLAYS ROWZANE-YE ABI AND PELLEKAN

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MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI BEHROOZ | RABBANI ROYA | Issue Writer Certificate

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NORTHERN IRANIAN CITIESQ1

LEGIBILITYQ1

AKBAR RADIQ1

PELLEKANQ1

ROWZANEYE ABIQ1

Abstract

the present study aims to consider the importance of LEGIBILITY of the urban environments in the northern cities of Iran, according to the theory proposed by Kevin Lynch. In Lynch’s opinion, there are seven criteria for such a study, five of which he calls “Performance dimensions” which are “vitality”, “Sense”, “Fit”, “Access”, and “Control”, and two are called “meta criteria”, which are “efficiency” and “Justice”. These criteria help us to represent the atmosphere and the situation of such urban places in the formation of the spirits and social exchanges of people. In this article, we have applied this theory on two plays by the late famous Iranian playwright, AKBAR RADI, named PELLEKAN (The Staircase) and Rowzane Abi (The Blue Opening). In both of these plays, the protagonist leaves his motherland in the north, and migrates to another city (one to Tehran, and one to another northern land). Both of these two characters have made benefits from the wrong social relationships in their cities, and this has resulted in their wealth and deep levels of mental corruption. The mportant point in these plays shows itself in the challenges that Bolbol in PELLEKAN and Pile Aqa in ROWZANEYE ABI have with their next generations, those educated people who cannot stand the corrupt situations and insrtead of following the footsteps of their fathers, want to start a new life in a totally now physical situation. The ultimate goal of the present article is finding the possibility of the existence of any sort of relationship between the LEGIBILITY of the urban environments and the spatial dependencies of the citizens on one side, and the probability of social misconducts and crimes due to the lack of LEGIBILITY in such cities on the other hand. For each of the five key terms provided by Lynch, we have come up with dialogues from both plays to show how these fathers are in act in these works. Also, some points such as the notions “paths”, “edges”, “districts”, “Nodes”, and “landmarks” have also been taken into account. It is noteworthy that the selection of these two plays have been based on the fact that Radi was a citizen of Rasht himself, and had always represented his own motherland in most of his works. The two above-mentioned plays are those which take place in "urban" northern places, while Radi has also some plays taking place in the north, but in the rural areas, which were naturally not included in the present work. The results of this study reveal that the lack of LEGIBILITY in the cities and the distortion of the urban rules in both works by Radi are quite vivid within Lynch’s theory, and the wrong managements in cities and the low qualities of urban lives in the locations of the plots of these dramatic works result in the fact that the citizens do not have a clear picture of their own cities in their minds, gradually lose their ties to their motherlands, and finally decide to migrate from their cities for ever.

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MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI, BEHROOZ, & RABBANI, ROYA. (2017). A STUDY OF THE LEGIBILITY OF THE NORTHERN IRANIAN CITIES IN THE WORKS OF AKBAR RADI: A STUDY OF THE PLAYS ROWZANE-YE ABI AND PELLEKAN. MEMARI-VA-SHAHRSAZI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA ), 22(3 ), 83-90. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/154376/en

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MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI BEHROOZ, RABBANI ROYA. A STUDY OF THE LEGIBILITY OF THE NORTHERN IRANIAN CITIES IN THE WORKS OF AKBAR RADI: A STUDY OF THE PLAYS ROWZANE-YE ABI AND PELLEKAN. MEMARI-VA-SHAHRSAZI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA )[Internet]. 2017;22(3 ):83-90. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/154376/en

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BEHROOZ MAHMOODI BAKHTIARI, and ROYA RABBANI, “A STUDY OF THE LEGIBILITY OF THE NORTHERN IRANIAN CITIES IN THE WORKS OF AKBAR RADI: A STUDY OF THE PLAYS ROWZANE-YE ABI AND PELLEKAN,” MEMARI-VA-SHAHRSAZI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA ), vol. 22, no. 3 , pp. 83–90, 2017, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/154376/en

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