The effect of benefiting from restoration knowledge in collective spaces with a historical context in order to promote the sense of identity among citizens (A Case Study: Tehran Market)

Abstract Urban historical spaces are very important in terms of creating and identifying, manifesting culture, beliefs and behaviors and social relations. Today, with the rapid expansion of urbanization, the old spaces of the city, which are considered as the initial skeleton of the city, have received less attention and have become socially vulnerable tissues. Collective spaces are places of social and cultural interaction in societies and play an important role in shaping cities’ identities. The market, as one of the collective spaces, in addition to affecting economic conditions, plays an important role in creating face-to-face interactions as well as a sense of belonging to citizens in their living environment. The Tehran market is one of the oldest components of Tehran’s identity that has lost some of its basic features, such as a sense of peace and security, over the last few decades. Now, the main question of this research is whether it is possible to increase the sense of belonging of users by using the knowledge of restoration in a historical space? In order to answer this question, the present study aims to investigate the importance of restoration in the Tehran market from the perspective of business as an ancient communal space and its impact on users and to compare the impact of benefiting from it. The research method in this research is based on a survey-analytical type that has been used to collect information through fieldwork, questionnaires and software. In this regard, in the field, the study area was divided into three parts in terms of spatial quality, and 100 questionnaires based on Likert spectrum were distributed in each of these three areas. As for the data analysis, the SPSS software was used. Written tables were discussed. The results show that in the Tehran market, space users were more dependent on their environment, which is in the refurbished (50%), refurbished (30%) and non-refurbished (20%) sectors. This indicates that the amount of memory in refurbished spaces was higher than in other areas.