Investigation of role of cultural spaces to promote level of quality of life in urban spaces (case sample: Sari city)

Abstract

Culture is the root of all changes in past and modern communities, which is the  foundation and base of civilization of the people of each country. Deep cultural  beliefs have a deep role in people's social thought and pave the way of progress for them. The present research has tried to examine methods to improve the quality of cultural spaces in urban spaces. So sample size was estimated 384 people based on Morgan table by using SPSS software, of which males constitutes (45.8%) and females constitutes (54.2%).(86.5%) have mentioned cultural conditions (people's
beliefs in cultural effects in life,...) and (84.2%) created effects of cultural spaces to fill leisure times of youth, and (84.5%) spatial diversity to attract different age groups by (making space multipurpose) and (51.6%) existence of dynamism and attractiveness by proper lighting both inside and outside the building to more attract people, and (50.5%) personal profile (age, gender and level of education ...) in their responses in order of importance.Most of the citizens (of Sari city) believes in the existence of desirable cultural spaces to promote the quality of urban spaces, and consider it effective in improving urban life according to the results of descriptive findings and binomial test and due to the response of the respondents.

Keywords: cultural places, quality of life, culture, urban spaces