Investigating the role of cultural traditions on the sustainable development of cities with the approach of the peaceful city movement (Case study: Ardabil city)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran

2 PhD student of geography and urban planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

3 PhD student in Geography and Urban Planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

10.22034/jess.2022.357246.1855

Abstract

In the modern capitalist system, the city is considered as a suitable place and urbanism as a desirable way of living in it. The rise and influence of the capitalist culture in the third world, including Iran, followed the trend of industrialization, and the assembly and related industry, as a clear symbol of that irreparable damage and complications, was planted in the economic and social structure of the Iranian society. Among its consequences is the heterogeneous urban concentration and rapid growth of the urban population due to the extensive rural-urban migration. A process that actually causes the transfer of the mostly poor population to the cities. The expansion of urban life and urbanism and the concentration of capital in cities have caused neglect of rural areas. which causes population flow or in other words migration from villages to cities and vice versa
The excessive reliance of modern urbanism on the needs of vehicular movement and neglecting the maintenance and organization of pedestrian spaces has led to the decline of social, cultural and visual values, and as a result, the quality of life and urban livability decreases. The rapid growth of cities, the exponential increase of the urban population, and the subsequent inappropriate and disorganized physical growth, have the consequences of dissatisfaction with urban life and are associated with the loss of vitality. Our time is the time of speed; Travel, communication, production and exchange, weather changes, etc. are faster. With the ren