City is a language that reflects opinions of its people. Today, the growth in cities has led into extensive physical and functional changes. The result of these changes is making cities and public areas into meaningless places which once had been the stamping ground and the venue for memories of people. The aim of this research is to study the position of meaning in the Safavid urbanism era and to achieve its criteria for designing Imam Reza Blvd in Rafsanjan as a meaningful urban space. Therefore, the research method with respect to the purpose is an applied research and regarding the procedure of performance is combinational. The information gathering methods are field and library research. Analysis of findings was made by using the SPSS software. The result of this research was a design that has created a meaningful space in Rafsanjan city by using Safavid urbanism.

Index Terms- Reread, meaning, Safavid urbanism, semantics.