LOCAL ISSUE

A comparison between the old urban structures of Shiraz in the 18th Century with 20th Century indicates that old structure was better thought and implemented. The main issue in The old structure was a thorough realization of the once built urban mechanism. The old Builder managed to maintain the similarity with the older structure of the city. This implies that the present Structure of Shiraz is not only due to an modernizing process of its traditional plans.Modern urban Structure in Iranian cities was presented in the 1940s. Streets through the old areas of the city and by advancing of a regular grid far from the Old city. This process had a great impact on the core of the city. Structural order of the old areas was disrupted. Configurationally replacement of urban factors and local areas resulted in declining especially in the, syntactically, region of the

residential areas in the old areas of the city. The current researches showed, through two main programs: continuation of the old part; and following the organic lines of natural factors and environment. On the other side is the modern plans of the city. Lack of objective realization of the past, rush for modernizing the city .The major recommendation of this paper is urging for an effort to a more objective realizationof the cities before any designation endeavors.