Recognition and Analysis of Essence, Social - Cultural Changes and Evolutions in Contemporary Urban Public Spaces of Tehran

Urban public Spaces can be known as the most important Context of communication and interaction between humans and resolving the urban communities’ requirements like the experience of urban public life. Since one of the most important current needs of human being is the possibility of interacting with public space and the society, identifying the essence of these spaces, the qualities and characteristics and also the changes and evolutions, issues, problems and challenges against them seems necessary. This research is trying to recognize the Contemporary Urban Public Spaces in Tehran and analyze related categories by “Grounded Theory” Method and studying the documents, collaborative observation and interview with the actors in Tehran Urban Public Spaces. According to the results, the biggest challenge in these Spaces is not having “Balance and Justice” among different aspects and categories. Tehran Urban Public Spaces cannot be known as balanced and Justly Spaces because when a space has not reached to the final level of quality, satisfaction and desirability, it cannot have balance and justice in all aspects and categories. Contemporary Public Spaces have faced difficulties by different effects and are in a level of transition. These Spaces have serious problems in communication and interacting with people, they haven`t been matched with their context and do not have balanced and appropriate rules and politics. Today we should accept each space that can respond even a small part of human needs, as an Urban Public Space but the quality and also reaching to the real aspects and criteria of an ideal Space can be discussed.