urban design and social mixing in the neighborhood districts (case study: abadan, iran)

Social diversity in the neighborhood dis tricts has been the new approach for the challenges resulting from varieties in cities. social interpreters of this policy are to create neighborhoods where people of different ages, ethnic-racial backgrounds, income, etc. take a place in it. in this regard, many designers by using the concept of different forms of ownership such as housing schemas, different types of cons tructing and housing etc. have tried to promote it. due to the less interes t that came toward this issue, the knowledge of this mechanism is poor in urban ecology of iran. the aim of this s tudy is to assess the effects of urban design in promoting the social mixing which is determined with the research of the abadan community areas. relevant parameters have been s tudied with library s tudies, field visits and by the use of qualitative and quantitative analytical methods. therefore, after reviewing the relevant concepts, we are going to tes t hypotheses by the examination of case s tudies, and finally, the influences of urban design criteria are presented.