Journal of Arid Regions Geographic Studies

Journal of Arid Regions Geographic Studies

Changing the site of Takab Hospital: a critique on non-communicative urban planning

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Department of Geography and urban planning, Faculty of Humanities, Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran
2 Department of Geography and urban planning, Faculty of Humanities, Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran.
Abstract
Aim: Studies have been conducted focusing on citizens' participation in urban planning and their right to the city, which have been raised as a criticism of non-participatory and non-communicative urban planning. In this research, an attempt has been made to explain the process of changing the site of Takab Hospital, using the theory of the production of space and Lefebverian trialectics, to be able to identify the dimensions of this site change and its consequences. 
Material & Method: With a descriptive-analytic method and applicative approach, with the help of the network analyst tool in ArcMap, the access status of citizens to the new hospital was evaluated in front of the old hospital by building a new area instrument at a standard distance, as one of the examples of their lived space.
 Finding: The analysis showed that citizens' access to the new hospital within the standard access radius was about one-third of the access to the old hospital. 
Conclusion: This case is inferred as an example of inattention to the urban lived space and a manifestation of the distance between the planner and the citizen, which shows the lack of correct understanding of the citizens as the audience of the programs. As a result, the city planners' action to change the hospital's site reveals its negative effect in the form of an increase in the access distance of the citizens to the hospital. 
Innovation: The innovative aspect of this article is integrating Henri Lefebvre's Production Of Space theory with communicative turn in urban planning; it is avoided only addressing and analyzing the spatial dimensions of the hospital site change. However, social and linguistic aspects also intervene in this spatial analysis.
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Volume 14, Issue 52
Summer 2023
Pages 150-136

  • Receive Date 31 January 2023
  • Revise Date 14 April 2023
  • Accept Date 02 May 2023
  • Publish Date 23 August 2023