HaghighatBin, Saghafi Moghaddam and Nijhuis approach regeneration through the continuity of collective memory, arguing that historic urban space cannot be conserved through physical preservation alone. ChaharBagh Street in Isfahan serves as a landscape in which material structure, social practice and remembered meaning have been repeatedly transformed. The paper’s iconic operation is to place conservation and rehabilitation in the same temporal system: regeneration must restore capacities for memory to be reproduced rather than freezing an urban scene as heritage image. Landscape becomes the mediating structure between people and place, capable of carrying historical continuity while accommodating contemporary use. Methodologically, the case study reads spatial transformation against social and cultural change, making historical urban morphology legible as an active mnemonic field. The work bridges landscape architecture, heritage studies and urban regeneration by shifting attention from objects to relations. Its strongest theoretical implication is that collective memory survives through renewed spatial participation, not through the isolated preservation of monuments or stylistic fragments.
