City imageability through architecture : an examination of the contribution of architecture in achieving city imageability

Abstract

The city is not a resent evolution, and created by human organisms as an expression of themselves, contains and tires to conserve the essence of the people who built it as well as lived in it. Man builds cities for his. living. Therefore the city can consider as the largest place of visual manifestation of man as an individual as well as a communal being and essentially contains expresses, and tries to conserve the people who live in it. Thus each city contains on image of its own, (as K.Lynch. 1980) was explained. It's mean that any city, has it own attributes which facilitate to create image to the city. To establishing the image to a city, there are determinant factors were influence to create certain environmental factors are determinant. There has been influenced, some factors to strength the imageability to the city Which are varying form city to city. To strength a high imageability to the city there has to be sensibly well composition in the city architecture. It should be different according to their relationship between the surrounding environment, and the history should contribute to express the relationship between the past present and future of the city. In this study, recognizing of the city form and its Architecture. And its centrifugation of achieving the city imageability. Presently within these cities has been polluting the city architecture and its own image due to rapid development, so it is needed to mitigate the disordered and disturbing architecture within a city. Therefore the designers and the planners have to be aware of these factors to have real work of architecture under any context.