Fatemeh Rajabi; leila zare; seid bagher hosseini
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Today's urban physical spaces are not a suitable environment for the formation and strengthening of mutual social relations and participation in the form of social groups. Social relations are influenced by different characteristics of organizing the environment and its effect on the behavior and formation ...
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Today's urban physical spaces are not a suitable environment for the formation and strengthening of mutual social relations and participation in the form of social groups. Social relations are influenced by different characteristics of organizing the environment and its effect on the behavior and formation of human social capital is obvious. These features include cohesiveness, permeability, readability, and scale. In fact, the quality of human presence and social activity is not independent of the space and they have a bilateral relationship with each other. Recently, several efforts have been made to promote social interactions, but the level of social capital has not changed significantly. A review of the research background in the field of physical environment has shown that spatial domains have been neglected. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the relationship between spatial domains (private, semi-private and public) with social capital at the neighborhood level. The present study is a case study that analyzed survey data obtained from a sample of 382 people in Ekbatan, Tehran. The selection of the statistical population is based on the results of socio-cultural clustering of Tehran neighborhoods (2015), social science studies of Al-Zahra University and the author's field observations. The results of statistical analysis of the refined questionnaires showed that satisfaction with the private domain, appropriate environmental qualities in the public domain and self-esteem (as one of the individual characteristics) are correlated with social capital. Also, the existence of important activities and common behavior in public service spaces is effective in promoting social capital. Findings showed that paying attention to residents' housing and improving the physical quality of semi-private and public areas should be a priority in local planning.
Azadeh Gharaye; Esfandiyar Zebardast; Hamid Majedi
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Social sustainability is a subject that has attracted the attentions of researchers since the early years of 21st century. Social, economic, and ecological sustainability are considered as the three components of urban sustainable development. On the other hand, the urban form, as an important component ...
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Social sustainability is a subject that has attracted the attentions of researchers since the early years of 21st century. Social, economic, and ecological sustainability are considered as the three components of urban sustainable development. On the other hand, the urban form, as an important component of the city comprises communication networks, public transportation systems, pedestrian and bicycle accesses, spatial structures, spatial distribution of activities, housing and settlement size, natural phenomena and non-spatial aspects which all are important for studying and analyzing a city from different viewpoints. Considering the interdependence of the components of this concept with different dimensions of the city, its role on different aspects of sustainability, including social sustainability, would be indisputable. The emergence of urban sustainable development concept pushed the international NGOs and planners to introduce new frameworks for redesigning and reorganizing of cities in order to achieve the sustainability. A critical review of these approaches suggests a disagreement upon the most desirable form of urban sustainability. Social sustainability, due to its intangible nature as well as its focus of mankind and his interactions is subject for such contradictions. The present study was seeking to explain the relationships between the components of urban form and social sustainability in 22 districts of Tehran using a descriptive-analytic research method. Quantitative models such as factor analysis and linear regression as well as resident’s questionnaire (2200 questionnaires were completed among 22 districts of the city) and SPSS software helped the researchers to navigate this route. The findings of the present research showed that there is a significant relationship between the main factors of urban form and the factor of combined social sustainability indicators in all 22 districts of Tehran. Social sustainability indicators included citizen’s access to local services, social security, participation rates in social and group activities, interaction with other residents or social groups, residence satisfaction, and access to affordable housing for citizens. It was also determined that districts 5 and 6 had the highest scores in terms of social sustainability in Tehran.
Seyyed Mehdi Mousakazemi; Esmaeil Aliakbari; Parviz Arani
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In compare to driving, cycling and other transportation modes, people pay more attention to their surrounding and connect with the environment while they are walking. Therefore, urban elements closed to the walking paths should be considered as very important elements. Pedestrians, while talking and ...
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In compare to driving, cycling and other transportation modes, people pay more attention to their surrounding and connect with the environment while they are walking. Therefore, urban elements closed to the walking paths should be considered as very important elements. Pedestrians, while talking and shopping, accept more impacts from the environment and its characters than any other occasions. Separating the pedestrian spaces from roadways and streets can decrease the effects of noise and environmental pollutions and finally improve the issue of commuting in the city. The present study focuses on designing and constructing five pedestrian zones in metropolitan of Tehran and investigates their functions on urban structure. In the present study, attention is paid to five pedestrian zones of Tehran metropolitan to investigate their effects on urban structure. To do this, the emphasis of the present study is on changes occurred in three criteria including: “urban commuting space”, “green space and environmental health”, and “urban identity”, after construction of the pedestrian zones. Main required data were collected from the questionnaire designed and completed by the local businessmen community and pedestrian zone users. Field and documentary data were used as well. The sample included 350 questionnaires selected by Cochran formula. The results indicated that the studied areas have already moved towards a homogeneous situation due to the construction of pedestrian zones. Also, in one-way analysis of variance, five pedestrian zones showed a significant difference of improvement among the criteria, which means that there is a functional difference between some of them.
Ali Movahed; Mazhar Ahmadi
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As a result of rapid growth of cities and their horizontal expansion, a considerable amount of urban lands has been put away from any efficient applications. Such kind of valuable lands cover 15 to 25 percent of cities’ areas in forms of old-fashions and timeworn textures. The 19th ...
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As a result of rapid growth of cities and their horizontal expansion, a considerable amount of urban lands has been put away from any efficient applications. Such kind of valuable lands cover 15 to 25 percent of cities’ areas in forms of old-fashions and timeworn textures. The 19th district of Tehran has a strategic situation as the western gateway of the city. At present, inactive industries and abandoned warehouses have occupied a significant amount of areas in district 19. Such areas are susceptible for many problems such as; economic depression, reduction of land values, environmental pollutions (accumulation of garbage and construction waste), visual contaminations, disruption in urban functions (services and accessibilities), reducing permeability in parts of the district, negative impact on environmental security, reduction of vitality and happiness of the urban environment which is necessary for social development of the city. Therefore, the present study titled “Planning and organizing abandoned and disused spaces of district 19” has been done based on the existing necessities and in line with the urban infill development policy. Based on aim, the present study is an applicable one. The research method was descriptive-analytic and data collection was based on both documentary and field methods. After identification of the region and extraction of indicators and criteria, we attempted to identify the abandoned spaces of the region. The organizing strategies of land were recognized using SWOT and QSPM models. Based on priority, they include: redevelopment of abandoned lands in line with the economic and social development of the region, setting tax for abandoned lands and their transactions, allocating disused spaces to required services, giving priority to restoration of lands with access to the internal and external road networks, increasing quality and integrating texture of the region, and creating coherence in the regional spatial organization. Finally, strategic policies and implementation mechanisms of these strategies are also presented.
Hassan Darabi; Sajad Sortiji
Volume 2, Issue 4 , December 2015, , Pages 99-112
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Strategic assessment is a method for improving the processes of decision making, policy, and planning. Land use suitability evaluation is a method for strategic assessment of environment. Based on its intrinsic logic, land use suitability assessment method has proper capabilities for strategic assessment. ...
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Strategic assessment is a method for improving the processes of decision making, policy, and planning. Land use suitability evaluation is a method for strategic assessment of environment. Based on its intrinsic logic, land use suitability assessment method has proper capabilities for strategic assessment. The method tries to shed a light on the issue of how close are the implemented planning projects to the strategic goals. The present study applies Land use Suitability Index (LSI) at district one of Tehran to achieve the following goals: the extent to which a program has influenced the improvement of the present status, and if the method is able to find the proper answers for existing problems and questions. The findings of the present study showed that the applied method is suitable to find the proper answers. It also showed that implementing the proposed method in district one of Tehran has led to relative improvement of the proposed program. It means that improvement has been achieved by decreasing the land use incompatibility and increasing the relative land use compatibility. The results also indicated that if enough attention is paid to some critical parts, even more improvement will be achieved and there would be greater possibility for higher levels of urban development.
Mahmoud Jomepour; Shahrzad Tahmasbi tehrani
Volume 1, Issue 3 , September 2013, , Pages 49-60
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate quality of life and livability in rural central city of Shahriar in Tehran, Dimensions and indicators of quality of life and livability is common such that to assess the viability of quality of life as a common approach to the topic is used to assess viability. ...
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate quality of life and livability in rural central city of Shahriar in Tehran, Dimensions and indicators of quality of life and livability is common such that to assess the viability of quality of life as a common approach to the topic is used to assess viability. Research direction is based on the location-based quality of life.In addition to data collection, library studies, is a survey, and the Cochrane formula for determining the sample size of 362 patients and their families and Analysis Unit of the heads of families was determined by. Order to select the classification method group villages Venture Towns and classified using seven villages were selected randomly, and finally using the proportional contribution of each village turned out questionnaires. Then examine three dimensions of economic, social and environmental were studied in the villages. response to questions from the test T One-sample t and chi-square were used. The results indicate that the quality of life and livability in the study villages are located in low viability and quality of life and in all social (health, Solidarity and social participa-tion, cohesion and belonging, place, person, and social security), economic (employment, income, housing, transportation, infrastructure and educational facilities), and environ-mental ( Quality place in the absence of infection) assessments are down significantly, and no significant difference also in terms of livability and quality of life in villages in the study area there.
