| Cultural orientation | Priority of spiritual needs over material ones: improvement and renovation through revival of the past cultural values. |
| Progressive orientation | During renovation and reconstruction of the old cities, nothing is preserved except the roads |
| Ecological school | Recession of old texture because of social and economic groups and segregations due to social injustice |
| Functional orientation | Improvement and renovation for the aim of economic and functional development of the city |
| Structural orientation | Collective like and systemic attitude towards city: improvement of fabric and spatial structures in collections and no single buildings. |
| Modernism | Extreme inclination for preservation of old monuments that even required the renovation and improvement of dead and non-historic buildings. |
| Post modernism | the sense of locality, revival of what that possesses local and special value. |
| Humanism | Considering people and their partnership in improvement and renovation of urban space and people-oriented intervention. |