Investigation the Interrelationship of physical transformations of historical quarters on the inhabitant’s social identity Case study: historic Armenians quarter of Isfahan (Julfa)

Historic urban fabrics are situated among of modern cities as the remained heritage of past cities. In Iran, the number of historic cities and their fabrics are significant and each of them are standing in specific level of historical authenticity and physical diversity. In the contemporary era, Iranian’s historic fabrics are confronting with the collapse of their social and traditional foundations and have putted in unstable social and physical condition. This article has organized based on this hypothesis that physical changes in the historical quarters has a direct interrelationship with spatial changes. Isfahan’s Julfa is a unique historic quarter with antiquity of almost four centuries which has encountered with declining its social and historical values. This study sought to discover the current spatial changes and their reasons in Julfa. The results of this survey show that contemporary Isfahan’s development plans which has imposed to the historic fabric without cognition its context and cultural values as well as urban planners failure in integration of Armenian’s social position has caused much spatial changes in Julfa.