Hadi Farhangdoust, Toktam Hanaee, Hero Farkisch,
Volume 34, Issue 1 (1-2024)
Abstract
Theoretical principles in environment-oriented disciplines are crucial, serving as the foundational knowledge base for all processes and activities within these fields. Their significance lies in their ability to establish a distinctive identity for these disciplines, differentiating them by their content, methodologies, and values. This research investigates the core concepts and fundamental ideas that underpin architecture and urban planning, linking these theoretical frameworks to knowledge management indicators. Understanding these theoretical foundations is vital as they are informed by knowledge-centric perspectives. Furthermore, recognizing the term "science" within these disciplines necessitates acknowledging existing frameworks and exploring new theoretical fields. The integration of software tools, particularly artificial intelligence, facilitates the application of these theoretical principles through logical algorithms. Therefore, it is essential to comprehend these fundamental concepts, which form the basis for theoretical support across all aspects of these disciplines. In simpler terms, theoretical principles can be viewed as foundational ("Foundation"), their formation as structural ("Structure"), their appearance ("Appearance"), and their application in architecture, urban planning, and urban geography as functional ("Function"). This research utilizes qualitative content analysis, specifically employing artificial intelligence via MaxQDA software. The study's findings enhance our understanding of existing theoretical foundations, enabling their adaptation into environmental scenarios and their application in new contexts and situations. By integrating these environmental scenarios into architectural and urban planning practices, professionals can create more sustainable, resilient, and livable environments, benefiting both people and the planet.
Hadi Farhangdoust, Toktam Hanaee, Hero Farkisch,
Volume 34, Issue 4 (10-2024)
Abstract
The field of Knowledge and Information Science in its scientometric branch examines scientific indicators for evaluating the content and method. Using the benchmarks of this discipline in architecture and urban planning, while improving its theoretical foundations, also organizes its processes. This study aims to provide a comprehensive framework to resolving this issue. The main questions of this research are formed based on the recognition of the types, evolution and impact of theoretical foundations on the objective framework of this field. The research method based on its reflexive grounded theory, with constructive interaction between several layers of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives, has tried to measure the extent and method of impact of different scientometric layers as dependent variables on the scientific strategies of architecture and urban planning. The process of implementing the research method in MAXQDA software has been such that all sections have items as research layers. These items have been introduced to the software by providing a variety of descriptive, related keywords used in architecture and urban planning research along with theoretical saturation technique. The innovative part of this research is in examining the controlling variable that has comparative values of architecture and urban planning along with values of the content of information science and epistemology. The findings of this research lead to the recognition of the role, connection, and application of the layers of the theoretical foundations of these fields from a scientific point of view. It is also related to the improvement of theoretical quality and methods, indicators, applications and strategies based on theoretical foundations in architecture and urban planning. It increases the efficiency of scientific methods and theoretical support of the processes of these disciplines both in the production of written works and in building information modeling software.
