Identifying the Values of Architectural and Urbanism Heritage in Urban Development Plans (Case Study: Northwest Region of Iran)

Historic urban fabric are symbols of originality and identity in our city, and have high values.These structures, as architectural and urban heritage, have been inherited from our predecessors for us as a memory.Our responsibility towards this precious heritage is to understand its underlying values, and to preserve and promote it.But as it should be, the values of these textures do not have a proper place in the study process of urban development plans.Based on this, this research seeks to answer the question, what is the place of architectural heritage and urban planning in the description of services and urban development plans, and how can it take steps to achieve the right place?Based on the goal, the current research is practical and in terms of research method, it is descriptive-analytical.The strategy used is interpretive strategy and logical reasoning.The method of collecting information is library and documents.According to the type of research and its strategy, the present article can be called one of the qualitative articles.In order to achieve the goal of the research, first, the values of architectural heritage and urban planning were extracted based on the study of numerous sources, and then their place in the description of services of urban development plans was evaluated.Finally, by matching the extracted values with the service description of the (comprehensive) development plans of Urmia, Maragheh, Tabriz and Meshginshahr cities, it has been addressed to provide solutions for the practical realization of the place of architectural and urban planning values in the service description of urban development plans.With the arrival of modernism in Iran and the imposition of a new spatial arrangement resulting from it on the historical contexts of old cities, responding to the social and cultural needs of the residents has been forgotten.The multiplicity of procedures and their sectional nature and the impact of relevant policies from sectional decisions without philosophical and theoretical support is the bottleneck that developing countries are currently facing.Therefore; urban heritage cannot be imagined as an isolated phenomenon, an enclosed area that is protected from the external forces of change due to plans and regulations.The work process was such that first the values of architectural heritage and urban planning were introduced and a category that