Evaluation of the principles and criterion for localization of the business centers (case study: Shahrekord Twin Towers)
Elham Pourmahabadian1and Amin Soleymani2
1Faculty member of Islamic Azad University
2MSc student of architecture, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Department of Architecture
Abstract
Establishment of each urban space is subject to its own regulations and principles in the specific physical spatial situation of that city. Obeying principles and regulations can increase the proper performance and success of the mentioned element in the determined location; otherwise, it will face with many problems. Selecting the proper location of business centers in an urban level can facilitate public access to them and reduce daily traffics in urban level. Therefore, providing balance in resources spatial distribution and providing services are function of the main objectives regulations and principles of planners. Service or resources centers distributions and cost is what planners try for them to allocate resources in the proper spatial place toward principles and regulations; as though, public access to them in balance. Based on the high importance of business centers localization, the establishment location of these centers will have a significant effect on their performance as establishment of a business center in an improper place not only won’t have their desirable efficiency, but also will have negative effect on local markets and daily markets in urban. It was tried in this research to identify the general and specific criterions of localization of this type of application based on case study and using combined policies, data collection method of surveying and librarian studying by focus on the effective factors on the great business centers localization and then provide a proper model to localize this application type. In this regard, after evaluation of the effective criterions in localization Shahrekord twin towers as a case study and its comparison to the obtained criterions, and precise localization, the obtained results showed that localization of this shopping center has been relatively done correctly in spite of trans-regional performance.
Keywords: localization, business centers, localization indexes, Shahrekord twin towers
