International Journal of Architectural Engineering & Urban Planning

en Designing a Hypothetical Neighborhood to Promote the Localism; Convergence of Urban Village Approach and Democratic Urban Design: The Link between Theory and Practice Urban Design Urban Design Research Paper Research Paper The "Urban Village Approach" is one of the most appropriate ways to eliminate recent urban problems, including social, environmental, cultural, and economic shortcomings. Although the urban village approach is generally proper to resolve these types of flaws, its combination with the democratic concept of urban design can definitely provide more effective solutions. So at first, this paper aims to present a theoretical combination of these two approaches in the form of recommended principles and criteria, and then attempts to introduce a hypothetical wasteland for illustrating the practical aspects of it through design suggestions. A major part of the achievements of this paper is based on theoretical and empirical findings obtained from comparisons and descriptions, but in order to achieve more tangible results, the practical aspects of findings are proven by displaying 3D designs and schemes. Consequently, these proposed principles and criteria can be utilized in designing a democratized urban village form that finally leads to some vital qualities, such as flexibility, inclusiveness, localism, diversity, vitality, naturality, identity, etc. These qualities, in an appropriate and consistent relation with the existing contexts, will also bring some desired concepts within, like justice, equality, freedom, and democracy to the urban and rural areas and neighborhoods. Urban village, Localism, Identity, Nature, Democratic urban design. 71 81 http://ijaup.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-11-1235-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 M. Zarei m.zarei@arc.ikiu.ac.ir 180031947532846003205 180031947532846003205 Yes AAssociate Professor,School ofArchitecture and Urbanism Faculty, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran M. Sattarzad Fathi manisattarzad@yahoo.com 180031947532846003206 180031947532846003206 No MA Student, School ofArchitecture and Urbanism Faculty, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran F. Heidari fardinheidari91@yahoo.com 180031947532846003207 180031947532846003207 No MA Student, School of Architecture and Urbanism Faculty, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran