Explaining the Place Dignity Model and Studying Its Various Dimensions

Aims & Backgrounds: People interact with different places of the city as an environment that responds to their needs and activities, and at a higher level, they define and attach to their part of their dignity in relation to these places. The phrase "place dignity" is considered as one of the dimensions of people and place relationship which is less considered by architects, designers and planners. In this context, explaining the concept of place dignity and the process of forming the people-place Interaction and the effective factors for creating, strengthening and valuing these links in general and on a local scale, as the first step in achieving the main objective of the place dignity criteria in urban neighborhoods. This research is aimed at understanding the affecting factors in classification of place dignity. Methodology: For this purpose, this article seeks to base its analysis on the basis of the foundation data theory on the basis of the review of the texts and documents related to this field, while presenting the definition of place dignity, studying its various dimensions, and classifying the causes and factors Involved in it, through three kindes of open, axial, and selective encoding. Findings:On this basis, after clarifying the concept of place dignity, over 70 theories of urban planners and designers were compared and extracted from the common conceptual model of research literature and 428 codes, 150 concepts and 14 categories was achieved. Conclusion:The results of this research showed that the place dignity model is identified by expressing 14 categories in 4 functional, perceptual, physical-enviromental and social dimensions, and finally, were presented as a conceptual and strategic framework.