survey of mixed use status in kashani urban street and strategies for it’s promote

mixed used development as a part of the common principles of new urbanism theory such as new urbanism and smart growth has been considered and in the last decades because of its efficiencies has become one of the most important goal in land use planning. increasing land prices in urban regions and tend to increase the intensity of land use are such factor that increase the importance of mixed use development. the purpose of this research is the introduction of principles of mixed use (including definitions, types, benefits and usage policies and ...) and study the situation of this issue in urban street. in this regard, yazd kashani street, that is one of the line center of city the connecting the old and new town was chosen as a case study. this study is among the applied research that use descriptive, analytical and survey method and in data collection use library study for the development of theoretical basis and information about the case study field studies and observation of the physical interpretation of the collected data was used. to identify and determine the user incorporation in the study area, the application, the state coeducational classes user and finally buildings and such amount and intensity of this phenomenon in kashani street, according to 11-fold factor is selected by using delphi technique and ief were studied. findings show that mixing rate is low in this area. the horizontal mixing is because of different types of users in the streets. vertical mixing of the street, is because of user diversity in two-story building and other types of mixed use including time and activity mixing is not available. therefore, as the important achievement of research, strategies based on the theoretical research and situation of the area to increase its mixed use for improving the qualities of street especially the increased prosperity and vitality. according to the high proportion of bare land area, the main emphasis in the proposed strategy is to a multi-purpose social and cultural functions with respect to increasing the efficiency of public transit of kashani street.