fateme piri; saeed amanpour; Abolfazl Meshkini
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The present study aims to introduce a suitable housing investment model in Ahvaz city based on barriers and incentive policies. The present study is applied in terms of purpose, exploratory-explanatory in nature, and descriptive-analytical in terms of implementation method. Documentary and field studies ...
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The present study aims to introduce a suitable housing investment model in Ahvaz city based on barriers and incentive policies. The present study is applied in terms of purpose, exploratory-explanatory in nature, and descriptive-analytical in terms of implementation method. Documentary and field studies and interviews with experts (Delphi method) were used to collect data. Content analysis method and ATLAS TI software were used to analyze the data. Based on the findings the most important challenges and obstacles to achieve the desired housing investment model are environmental issues and water and drought crises. On the other hand, some policies and opportunities such as changing the way real estate firms receive transaction fees to a fixed transaction fee, acquiring brownfield land, and transferring their warehouse and industrial sectors outside the city limits to create the city's internal capacity for housing development are policies and opportunities that, if implemented and recognized, can somehow control the housing market. While in other countries there are various criteria for appropriate housing location; one of the most successful ones is affordability criteria. In these criteria, in addition to physical criteria, attention is also paid to social, cultural, and ecological sustainability of supportive complexes, improving the quality of life of residents, and ultimately establishing spatial social justice.
Masoud Safaee Pour; Majid Goodarzi; Ali Ashkbos; Zahra Soltani; Ali Shojaian
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The realization of the "Learning City," as a modern paradigm in urban management, plays a pivotal role in achieving sustainable development and enhancing the quality of life for citizens. This research aims to analyze the key managerial drivers for establishing a learning city in Bandar Mahshahr and ...
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The realization of the "Learning City," as a modern paradigm in urban management, plays a pivotal role in achieving sustainable development and enhancing the quality of life for citizens. This research aims to analyze the key managerial drivers for establishing a learning city in Bandar Mahshahr and to investigate the relationship between managerial indices and educational advancement. The statistical population consists of 384 citizens and 20 experts, with data gathered through questionnaires and interviews. A hybrid of quantitative and qualitative methodologies was employed, including descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation, multiple regression, path analysis, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), and MICMAC analysis. The findings revealed that spiritual indices ($\beta = 0.36$) and knowledge-based indices ($\beta = 0.32$) exerted the most significant direct positive impact on educational promotion. While social and economic indices also demonstrated positive effects, political and environmental indices lacked a direct impact, influencing the outcome indirectly through social and spiritual mediators. The ISM analysis illustrated a three-level hierarchical structure of drivers: political and environmental indices functioned as "fundamental drivers," social and economic indices served as "intermediate variables," and knowledge and spiritual indices emerged as the "final objectives/outputs." The MICMAC analysis further validated this structural framework. These findings underscore the necessity of a multidimensional urban management approach, suggesting that strengthening foundational political and environmental pillars, alongside socio-economic development, will accelerate the realization of a learning city in Bandar Mahshahr.
Sirous Ghanbari
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Sustainable physical and social development of rural housing, as one of the main pillars of the formation and maintenance of the life of local communities, has always been one of the main concerns of regional development policymakers. In the meantime, Sistan Region, due to its unique climatic, social ...
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Sustainable physical and social development of rural housing, as one of the main pillars of the formation and maintenance of the life of local communities, has always been one of the main concerns of regional development policymakers. In the meantime, Sistan Region, due to its unique climatic, social and economic characteristics, is a clear example of regions where the housing development process is influenced by contradictory and complex forces. This research has been conducted with the main aim of analyzing and measuring endogenous and exogenous factors affecting the physical and social development process of rural housing in this region in order to provide a deeper understanding of the mechanisms affecting the quality of rural life and, ultimately, to provide strategies for optimizing development interventions. The present research is applied in terms of its purpose and has been conducted using a mixed method (qualitative-quantitative) and a descriptive-analytical approach. The statistical population was defined in two groups: experts (20 people with purposive sampling until theoretical saturation was reached) and local residents (170 people with accessible sampling). Using the grounded theory method, endogenous factors (including indigenous knowledge adapted to the climate, cultural-family patterns, local livelihood and economic system, and social capital) and exogenous factors (including macro policies, natural hazards and climate change, economic developments, the influence of cultural-physical patterns, and foreign infrastructure) were identified. Based on the results of the one-sample t-test from the perspective of local communities, natural hazards and climate change were identified as the most influential factor on housing development with the highest mean (3.77), which indicates the direct perception of residents of environmental threats. After that, economic factors including local livelihood system (3.60) and macroeconomic developments (3.61) were emphasized as the main financial obstacles in housing investment and maintenance.
Abbas Saidi
Volume 1, Issue 1 , January 2013, , Pages 9-26
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In recent decade in Iran, there have been published a vast number of books (compiled or translated) and scholar articles on different issues in various branches of geography. Most of these publications often focus on particular issues, but only rarely offer an expansive overview of the variety of terms ...
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In recent decade in Iran, there have been published a vast number of books (compiled or translated) and scholar articles on different issues in various branches of geography. Most of these publications often focus on particular issues, but only rarely offer an expansive overview of the variety of terms and concepts in use within the field; Moreover, the conceptions used are mostly not meaningfully relevant and in some cases even misleading (it is especially true in falsities in translating these terms and conceptions into Persian). Moreover, the new trends and approaches in modern geography, especially spatial debates and planning theories are in some way the most neglected topics in these publications. In contrary, the most interested fields in these publications are often students’ thesis-based case study ones, compiled mostly by students themselves. So, some problems have been evolved from insufficient descriptions and lack of sufficient clear and perceptible definitions. The result has been not only a growing vagueness of some terms and definitions, fundamental to applied geographies, but the misleading of growing number of students of the field. The main aim of this article is to provide a relative detailed description and discussion of the terms and concepts which are central to the theoretical debate and empirical research in spatial planning within modern applied geography.
hasan Afrakhteh; Farhad Azizpour; Mohammad RA\amazan Jornbyan
Volume 1, Issue 2 , April 2013, , Pages 9-24
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Cities and villages are considered as two main components of geographical foundation of any area which have special relations based on their socio-economic and spatial characteristics. Rural-urban linkages are the results of interactions between rural settlements and urban centers of a region. These ...
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Cities and villages are considered as two main components of geographical foundation of any area which have special relations based on their socio-economic and spatial characteristics. Rural-urban linkages are the results of interactions between rural settlements and urban centers of a region. These linkages are created due to the different flows of people, goods, information, technology, and innovation between urban and rural areas which in turn create many socio-economic and cultural changes in rural environments. The aim of the present study is to identify the internal and external spatial flows of rural settlements and their role and effects on the formation and expansion of the rural sprawl processes. The study area is Solaiman Abad located in rural division (Dehestan) of Golijan in Tonekabon County. Required data were collected through documentary and the field study by completing questionnaire and doing interview with rural household heads, rural council members, and rural managers. For data analysis, some software and methods are applied including: GIS, SPSS, descriptive statistics and statistical test (linear regression). The results show that two dominant spatial flows in the study area are population flows and capital flows which cause the spatial-physical changes of the region. Some factors such as unplanned expansion of cities, changes occurred in settlement textures, expansion of industrial and service units and increasing housing construction have caused the rural sprawl and have led to destroying fertile agricultural lands of the region.
Saeed Maleki; Saeed Amanpour; Masoud Safaeepour; Sayed Nader Pormosavi; Elias Mavedat
Volume 4, Issue 1 , June 2017, , Pages 9-20
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Urban Resilience is a relatively new concept in urban studies and urban planning Therefore, urban planning plays a crucial role in the formation cities of flexibility. Strategic planning for these activities should be subject to adapt to the urban physical. Therefore, in order to prevent further loss ...
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Urban Resilience is a relatively new concept in urban studies and urban planning Therefore, urban planning plays a crucial role in the formation cities of flexibility. Strategic planning for these activities should be subject to adapt to the urban physical. Therefore, in order to prevent further loss and damage needs to study the dimensions of the subject. A study of nature application – development and analytical approach to the issue is addressed in Ilam. Because the seismic predictions based on statistical methods can give satisfactory results; This research using quantitative models, COPRAS and μd, software GRAFER, MINITAB, VISIO, Excel and SPSS to examine the issue. The results of the 5 on the Richter scale model based on an average of the separate areas of 14 districts were ranked. In other words, the social damage - physical in the earthquake of 5 Mercalli using variable weight combination in the areas Finally, the resilience was determined in Ilam. COPRAS model based on the mean of resilience in against 65 percent.
Abbas saidi
Volume 1, Issue 3 , September 2013, , Pages 11-24
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In recent decade in Iran, there have been published a vast number of books (compiled or translated) and scholar articles on different issues in various branches of geography. Most of these publications often focus on particular issues, but only rarely offer an expansive overview of the variety of terms ...
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In recent decade in Iran, there have been published a vast number of books (compiled or translated) and scholar articles on different issues in various branches of geography. Most of these publications often focus on particular issues, but only rarely offer an expansive overview of the variety of terms and concepts in use within the field; Moreover, the conceptions used are mostly not meaningfully relevant and in some cases even misleading (it is especially true in falsities in translating these terms and conceptions into Persian). Moreover, the new trends and approaches in modern geography, especially spatial debates and planning theories are in some way the most neglected topics in these publications. In contrary, the most interested fields in these publications are often students’ thesis-based case study ones, compiled mostly by students themselves. So, some problems have been evolved from insufficient descriptions and lack of sufficient clear and perceptible definitions. The result has been not only a growing vagueness of some terms and definitions, fundamental to applied geographies, but the misleading of growing number of students of the field. The main aim of this article is to provide a relative detailed description and discussion of the terms and concepts which are central to the theoretical debate and empirical research in spatial planning within modern applied geography.
Abbass Saeedi
Volume 2, Issue 4 , December 2015, , Pages 11-20
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Sustainable rural development is a process that will facilitate and encourage the promotion of rural life through acceptable activities in harmony with the environment. Thus, rural sustainable development includes various aspects, but preparation of sufficient structures in 4 backgrounds could facilitate ...
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Sustainable rural development is a process that will facilitate and encourage the promotion of rural life through acceptable activities in harmony with the environment. Thus, rural sustainable development includes various aspects, but preparation of sufficient structures in 4 backgrounds could facilitate the course; these are: physical-ecologic, social-cultural, political-economic, and spatial. Spatial integration, in the context of a systemic approach, considers the rural settlements as open systems in various scales, namely spot, local, area, regional, and national levels.Thus, each rural settlement is in a dynamic process, not only in terms of interactions between different inner components and forces, but also interacts with other settlement similar systems (settlements, both rural and urban). In the meantime, it is of decisive significance manifests in features and capabilities of the system to establish an interactive relationship with policies, planning and sufficient funds. On the other hand, with regard to new approaches in applied geography and the role of communities in producing different spaces, many of the goals of spatial planning and sustainability aspects are considered coherent. This article tries to show, any sustainability in the process of rural development requires an integrated approach based on terms of structural-functional dynamics in the context of spatial paradigm.
Jafar Mirkatouli; Ebrahim Moameri
Volume 4, Issue 2 , September 2017, , Pages 11-26
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Recognition of inequalities and imbalances can be made within the framework of different spatial-geographical boundaries.And the need to take steps in this direction is to identify the status of each of the components of planning, including country, province, state and city, andas a result of ...
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Recognition of inequalities and imbalances can be made within the framework of different spatial-geographical boundaries.And the need to take steps in this direction is to identify the status of each of the components of planning, including country, province, state and city, andas a result of finding differences and existing differences and policies aimed at eliminating inequalities in each of the spaces, Because space is a fundamental dimension in human society and social justice is flown in space and justice and injustice are emerging in space. With this interpretation, the aim of this paper is to determine the distribution of urban services in cities and, in other words, the degree of development and the extent of regional inequalities in the urban areas of Golestan Province. The research method is descriptive-analytic and uses statistical and quantitative models. In order to determine the level of accessibility of urban areas of Golestan province, using statistics and census data of 1394, utilities of urban services were used. And its results are evaluated using the composite partial recognition model (KOPRAS). Data were analyzed using Excel, SPSS and also ArcGIS 9.3 software for drawing maps. The result of this research shows that urban amenities and services in urban areas of Golestan have not been distributed in a harmonious and fair manner. The cities of Gorgan and Sangdvīn are respectively the most developed with development coefficient (100) and the most deprived with development coefficient (234.074) in the cities of Golestan province.
vahid riahi; hassan momeni
Volume 4, Issue 3 , December 2017, , Pages 11-24
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During the last few decades desire to deal with land-use issues has been increased among rural planners. It seems that a functional transformation of villages is an effective factor on such debates. In general, land use desirability means allocating rural lands for those activities which are more suitable ...
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During the last few decades desire to deal with land-use issues has been increased among rural planners. It seems that a functional transformation of villages is an effective factor on such debates. In general, land use desirability means allocating rural lands for those activities which are more suitable with the rural environment and are important for development and sustainability of rural settlements. Recognizing different types of land use in each area requires proper evaluation of spatial capacities of that area. The present study tries to investigate land use desirability in Jajroud section in Pardis county located at east of Tehran where recognized as a rural area with high levels of immigrants. Based on aim, the present research is an applicable research, and based on nature; it is a descriptive-analytical study. Statistical sample which includes 4 villages were selected using a snowballing and random method. Questionnaires and interview were used to collect field data. Totally, 74 households were selected to interview and completing the questionnaires. An Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP) method was applied to analysis the data. Results of the present study showed that the rate of demand for land use change is very high in SaeidAbad village. The results also indicated that all studied villages are faced with functional transformations and their lands have functionally been transformed into second houses or workhouses. The rates of such changes were higher in KhosrowAbad and SaeidAbad compared to Kamard and Targhiyan villages.
Ali Eshgi; Hossein Nazmfar; Ata Gafari
Volume 4, Issue 4 , March 2018, , Pages 11-26
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The vast environmental damages of earthquakes have recently attracted more attentions to the concept of resilience to minimize the pernicious effects of such disaster. The present study evaluates the physical resilience in municipality region one of Tehran against the possible earthquakes. Using a descriptive-analytic ...
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The vast environmental damages of earthquakes have recently attracted more attentions to the concept of resilience to minimize the pernicious effects of such disaster. The present study evaluates the physical resilience in municipality region one of Tehran against the possible earthquakes. Using a descriptive-analytic method and GIS modeling, data were analyzed based on results obtained by network analysis process. The general resilience map of the region was drawn. Then a fuzzy technique was applied to the map to create different scenarios of earthquake magnitudes. The results indicated that in a probable earthquake of 6 Richter’s magnitude scale, 11.13 percent of constructions would locate at the low and very low resilience range. In such a scenario except two, other neighborhoods of the region would not be facing a serious vulnerability. With a probable 7 Richter’s scenario, the previous percentage would increase to 39. In a probable 8 Richter’s scenario, 52.29 percent of constructions would be faced with serious danger by which almost all rural textures fall in the very low range of resilience scale. Finally, in a probable 9 Richter’s scenario, 67.45 percent of constructions would fall at low and very low range of resilience scale. Most of them locate at areas of 1, 3, 4, 5 and 8 of the region.
hamid Pour hossein roshan; Mojtaba Rafieian
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The formation of approaches with the attitude of advocacy planning can be related to the existence and continuity of spatial and socioeconomic inequality and the conventional failures of planning. In Iran, planners who work as urban planning engineers in most of the consulting engineer’s companies, ...
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The formation of approaches with the attitude of advocacy planning can be related to the existence and continuity of spatial and socioeconomic inequality and the conventional failures of planning. In Iran, planners who work as urban planning engineers in most of the consulting engineer’s companies, or in person, can use their expertise to encourage citizens to follow their legal rights and to increase their social participation. Examples can be found in plans that are intended to change the land use through the Organization of the Engineering System to eligible city planners. The purpose of the present study is to review the literature of advocacy planning and its application to urban land use adaptation plans. It also tries to show the relations between land use adaptation plans and advocacy planning theory in terms of topics, methods, and goals (the relation between theory and practice). The methodology of the present research is qualitative and data were collected through deep interviewing techniques and nonreactive measures (archival records). The field theory approach has been adopted to analyze the information and to present the final theory. Based on the qualitative sampling method of the typical case study and the theoretical saturation criterion, the views of thirty-five experts in the field of urbanization have been used in this study and their perception of the research questions have been analyzed. Using the "grounded theory" method and data coding, nine core categories were extracted from the initial findings. The result of the present study, with regard to the final core category, indicates that “urban adaptation schemes cover many aspects of advocacy theory in urban planning, and can be considered as a practical dimension in many aspects of Advocacy Planning Theory”. The findings reveal the deep relationship between the theory of planning advocacy and urban land use adaptation plans.
Saed Maleki; Saed Amanpour; Shahrokh Zadvali Khajeh
Volume 5, Issue 2 , September 2018, , Pages 11-25
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Housing poverty is one of the most prominent visions of developing countries characterized by informal settlements. Such settlements are, in fact, a form of indecisiveness for the unplanned accumulation of low-income groups at the most vulnerable parts of the city, which is created entirely in an unorganized ...
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Housing poverty is one of the most prominent visions of developing countries characterized by informal settlements. Such settlements are, in fact, a form of indecisiveness for the unplanned accumulation of low-income groups at the most vulnerable parts of the city, which is created entirely in an unorganized manner. Regarding the importance of housing, especially in informal settlements, the purpose of the present study is to achieve policies aimed at providing housing components at a minimum level. The applied method in this research is descriptive-analytic. Data collection was done through a documentary-field survey method. Structural equation analysis has been used for data analysis. The statistical population of the research includes managers and experts of metropolises of Ahwaz and Tabriz. The sample size was obtained by simple random sampling comprises 110 people for each of the metropolitan cities. The research findings indicate that the most important approaches to providing minimum housing in Tabriz metropolitan area are improving the quality of housing and empowerment, with the coefficients of 0.93 and 0.79 respectively. Also, in these approaches, the most influences were local community empowerment, rehabilitation and reconstruction policies with a coefficient of 0.93, 0.91 and 0.88 respectively. In the city of Ahwaz, the most important approaches to minimum housing provision are empowerment and social and supportive housing with coefficients of 0.88 and 0.81 respectively. Also, the most influential approaches are the establishment of various housing funds, the participation of the nongovernmental sector in housing construction and the empowerment of the local community with coefficients of 0.92, 0.89 and 0.83, respectively.
Mohammad Taghi Pirbababei; Valiollah Rabieifar; Masoud Asadi Mahal Chali
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The idea of creative city is a new and effective strategy to fundamental development of cities and improvement of environment and life quality of citizens. Such an idea can be recommended as a sustainable strategy for all metropolitans of the country for all eras. It would always be a changing idea according ...
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The idea of creative city is a new and effective strategy to fundamental development of cities and improvement of environment and life quality of citizens. Such an idea can be recommended as a sustainable strategy for all metropolitans of the country for all eras. It would always be a changing idea according to its innovative and creative nature as well as new activities and functions of the cities. Since, the formation and growth of creative city strategy depends on the historical and cultural context of cities, the Iranian metropolitans, because of their diverse environments and cultures have a good potential to move towards global creative cities. The present study aimed at reviewing and monitoring the urban structure of eight metropolitans of Iran from a creative city strategy viewpoint. The applied model is an integrated model of VIKOR-AHP. Based on methodology and nature, the present research is a descriptive-analytic-comparative and based on aim, it is an applicable research. Findings of the present study indicate that according to five-fold urban creative structure; metropolitans of Tehran, Isfahan and Tabriz locate at the top of ranking scale with QIs of 0.11, 0.47 and 0.56, respectively. These figures are 0.77, 0.88 and 0.90 for the last three metropolitans of Karaj, Ahwaz, and Qom, respectively. The results show that based on socio-cultural and economic-functional structures of urban creativity, there is an unbalanced and unfair distribution among metropolitans in terms of economic, social and human resources. Also, unlike the availability of potentials and capacities of urban creativity indexes, most of them are not studied and haven’t yet been applied and executed.
mohammad hosein pour hasan zadeh; Ghader Ahmadi
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Earthquake has historically been considered as a cause for vast destruction of buildings, casualties, and financial damages in Iranian cities. To prevent such a disaster it is necessary to construct resistant buildings and retrofitting the existing ones. The main aim of the present study was analyzing ...
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Earthquake has historically been considered as a cause for vast destruction of buildings, casualties, and financial damages in Iranian cities. To prevent such a disaster it is necessary to construct resistant buildings and retrofitting the existing ones. The main aim of the present study was analyzing the vulnerability of houses in Urmia against the earthquake and ranking the districts of the city using TOPSIS method. The applied method was descriptive-analytical and the type of research was applicable with a quantitative-qualitative approach. Documentary and field methods were applied to collect the required data. Based on TOPSIS method, the findings of the present study indicated that the average rate of vulnerability of houses for the whole city of Urmia was 0.485. The highest rate was belonged to district 4 with a TOPSIS score of 0.818 and the lowest one to district 1 with a score of 0.296. The score of district 5 was 0.338 which is considered as a moderated range of vulnerability against the earthquake.
hossein hataminejad; Masoud Modanlou jouybari; Kourosh akhavan hadari
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Urban livability in urban development and urban design reflects the strong discourse-that is prevalent in urban planning. This study aimed to analyze the livability of the physical parameters of Ahvaz have taken place in metropolitan areas. This type of research is applied and the method is analytic. ...
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Urban livability in urban development and urban design reflects the strong discourse-that is prevalent in urban planning. This study aimed to analyze the livability of the physical parameters of Ahvaz have taken place in metropolitan areas. This type of research is applied and the method is analytic. Data and information were collected in two ways library and survey. The data analysis models Topsis, Vikor, Sar and combination (merger) was used.The results show that reg 2 is ranked first, reg1 in rank 2, reg 6 in rank 3, region 3 in rank 4, reg 8 in rank 5, reg 7 in rank 6 and finally reg 4 in the last rank (unfavorable). In general, the seventh regions of this city differ in terms of the level of physical habitat in the indicators of the quality of housing, infrastructure, urban mobility and urban form. In terms of the level of utility of physical viability, only areas 2 and 1 were at the level of complete desirability and areas 8,3,4,6 and 4 were the most undesirable areas of physical livability.
Aliakbar Anabestani; Mahdi Javanshiri; Soudabeh Ahmadi
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The security of rural residential areas as a common factor between human and environmental arenas is a necessity for promoting life quality of people. This factor is affected by the way that rural residential areas are designed and planned. The present study is aimed to evaluate the effects of physical ...
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The security of rural residential areas as a common factor between human and environmental arenas is a necessity for promoting life quality of people. This factor is affected by the way that rural residential areas are designed and planned. The present study is aimed to evaluate the effects of physical planning on security of rural residents in a rural area of Mashhad county, emphasizing their social security. Based on aim, the present study is an applied research and based on method and nature, it is a descriptive-analytical one. The unit of analysis is rural households of three rural districts namely Tabadkan, Tous, and Darzab which have been targeted for the rural conducted plans. Of 2356 rural households in the study area, 163 households were selected as sample by simple random sampling based on Cochran formula with an error equals to 0.075. To measure the security rate, 13 social indicators and 11 physical planning indices are applied. Some statistical tests were used for data analysis including Pearson Statistical Test, Single-sample T-test, Regression and Path Analysis. The results indicated that the mean of physical planning variable in sample villages was 2.06 which is a moderated figure tending to lower places of ranking. Based on the single sample T-test, the index of building quality with an amount of 8.15 was more considerable. The mean of social security variable was 3.42 which indicated a moderate situation for the studied villages. The lowest place of ranking was belonged to individual security with a mean of 2.73. Based on Pearson correlation results it was marked that there is a direct and significant relationship between physical planning and social security perception with a figure of 0.045. Also, the results of Path analysis indicated that the size of parcels with an effect coefficient of 0.255 and compatibility with an effect coefficient of 0.254 have had the highest impact on social security perception.
Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari; Aida Sadrossadat
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The present study is aimed to investigate the effects of tourism development on land use changes in rural areas. The development of tourism activities results in massive structural change in rural areas with natural attractions. A descriptive-analytical method is adopted by the present study. Based on ...
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The present study is aimed to investigate the effects of tourism development on land use changes in rural areas. The development of tourism activities results in massive structural change in rural areas with natural attractions. A descriptive-analytical method is adopted by the present study. Based on the literature review, a questionnaire was formulated and completed by 356 villagers in 10 touristy villages of Binaloud county. The validity of questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The data were analyzed using SPSS software, including T-test to compare the mean of indices, Pearson correlation and regression model. Also the villages were ranked by Vickor multi-criteria programming method to assess the changes occurred in their land use. Results indicated that there is a significant correlation between the presence of tourists and four components of: 1- physical changes, 2- incentives for more land use changes, 3- structural and communication changes and 4- economic changes in rural areas. The regression results revealed that a considerable part of the dependent variable (land use change) is explained by the independent variable (the tourists). Also, the results of the ranking of the studied villages in terms of the impact of land use changes on tourism indicated that three villages namely: MayanOlia, Mayansofla and Mayanvosta have experienced more land use changes than the others.
Abaas Saidi; Farhad Azizpour; Vahid Riyahi; Eyvaz Amini Qovaqlu
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At present, sustainability as a clear goal is at the heart of global developments. Territorial sustainable development depends on the sustainability of rural system as a constituent sub-system of a territorial system. Sustainability of rural areas in different dimensions can have an effective role in ...
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At present, sustainability as a clear goal is at the heart of global developments. Territorial sustainable development depends on the sustainability of rural system as a constituent sub-system of a territorial system. Sustainability of rural areas in different dimensions can have an effective role in regional and national development. The current research attempts to recognize and account for the spatial capabilities and limitations of rural settlements in Baruq within the framework of sustainable development. This research is a practical study with a descriptive methodology. The research statistical population includes 70 residential villages in Baruq are, of them thirty-two villages were selected through stratified sampling and based on four criteria of sustainable development. Field and document data were collected to answer the research questions. The results indicate that these villages are weak in terms of sustainability. Moreover, investigating the four aspects of sustainability has shown that each of the aspects (i.e., environmental-ecological, physical-spatial, social, and economic) are in a weak sustainable condition; the economic aspect suffers most from the weakest condition. The level of sustainability in the villages reveals that around 43 per cent of the settlements are unsustainably strong, 25 per cent unsustainably weak, 25 per cent sustainably weak, and only 6 per cent are sustainably strong. The sustainability of the villages decreases physically-spatially from the west to the east of the district. That is to say, mountainous villages are less sustainable than the villages in the plains or other less mountainous areas. Sustainable and slightly sustainable villages lie in the west or in the plain. It shows that sustainable spatial pattern is a cluster. The results thus predict the highest role of social factors (R2 = 0.392) and a low role for environmental-ecological factors (R2 = 0.186) in the unsustainability of the rural settlements. Economic and physical-spatial factors predict around 0.338 and 0.324 of the unsustainability in rural settlements.
Aliakbar Anabestani; Mahdi Naderianfar
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The purpose of implementing the Hadi project is to achieve a desirable and satisfactory life in rural areas. Based on this, it seems necessary to evaluate the environmental quality of the villages in which the Hadi project has been implemented, considering its impact on ecological spaces as an inevitable ...
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The purpose of implementing the Hadi project is to achieve a desirable and satisfactory life in rural areas. Based on this, it seems necessary to evaluate the environmental quality of the villages in which the Hadi project has been implemented, considering its impact on ecological spaces as an inevitable approach in the field of rural planning. The present study is an attempt to investigate the impact of the implementation of Hadi projects on improving the environmental quality of rural settlements. The research method of this study is descriptive-analytical and is based on documentary sources and field studies based on completing the questionnaire. The statistical population of the study included all the villages (18 villages) in which the Hadi project was implemented and among them 8 villages that had been under construction for at least 5 years since the implementation of the Hadi project were selected by sampling method. Then, considering the number of households living in the sample villages and using the Cochran's formula, 227 households were considered as the sample household size. Data analysis was performed using ArcGIS and SPSS software. The results of the Wilcoxon test show that the implementation of the Hadi project in the villages of the study area has been effective in improving the environmental quality of rural settlements. Also, the results of one-way analysis of variance test show that the implementation of Hadi projects on physical, aesthetic and visual perception components has more effective than other components in the environmental quality of rural settlements.
Mostafa Amirfakhrian; Aliyeh Mohammadi
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Environmental quality is one of the important factors in the psychological well-being of citizens. The present study attempts to measure the stress experienced in the urban space in terms of acquired and non-acquired characteristics of citizens in District 10 of Mashhad. The question of the present study ...
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Environmental quality is one of the important factors in the psychological well-being of citizens. The present study attempts to measure the stress experienced in the urban space in terms of acquired and non-acquired characteristics of citizens in District 10 of Mashhad. The question of the present study is; Can the history of living in the environment cause a person's flexibility in facing stressors? The present study is a descriptive-analytical study that, by examining related sources and developing a conceptual model, has categorized the stressors of the urban environment into three categories: residential environment (with 16 variables), mobility elements (with 15 variables), and major land uses (with 14 variables). The sample size was determined to be 250 residents of District 10, according to the type of statistical tests. The collected data, after coding and entering into the SPSS software, were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods such as t-test, correlation, trend line, R2 coefficient, and orthogonal tables. The results showed that environmental elements were associated with higher levels of stress among married people (compared to single people), women (compared to men), older people (compared to young people), and more educated people (compared to less educated people). On the other hand, examining the history of residence also showed that as it increases, the level of stress experienced by individuals from the urban environment decreases. This issue had the greatest effect on older people and people with higher levels of education. Supplementary findings revealed that the stress experienced by individuals from one environment is also spread to other environments. Therefore, the level of comfort of an individual from the residential environment can play an important role in his or her feeling of the surrounding environments. Finally, paying attention to human scales and trying to give importance to the structure of the neighborhood in planning can play an important role in the flexibility of individuals in facing environmental stressors.
ahmad porahmad; Alireza Garousi; Abolfazl Noori
Volume 2, Issue 4 , December 2015, , Pages 21-33
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Nowadays, housing is considered not only as a shelter but also as a symbol of identity, security and a capital source by residents of cities. Some factors such as; lack of sufficient resources, weak economic management, lack of a comprehensive housing planning, and other existing flaws of economic infrastructure ...
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Nowadays, housing is considered not only as a shelter but also as a symbol of identity, security and a capital source by residents of cities. Some factors such as; lack of sufficient resources, weak economic management, lack of a comprehensive housing planning, and other existing flaws of economic infrastructure along with population growth have converted the housing issues into a complicated and multi-dimensional problem in developing countries. To achieve a desirable planning system for housing, there is a need to review and analysis all existing aspects of housing and its related facilities. Identifying the existing indicators of housing and matching them with a housing indicator of a healthy city is an important step towards a favorable urban development. The present study is an applied research which uses a descriptive-analytical method to analysis the data. Required data were obtained from 2011 census and Statistical Center of Iran. The main question that the research tries to answer is: How is the present status of qualitative and quantitative indicators of housing in NazarAbad County? Then, we have tried to compare these indicators with Alborz Province, with national overage and with housing indicators of a healthy city. As a result, evaluating the qualitative and quantitative indicators of housing in NazarAbad shows that the county totally has an acceptable and positive situation against housing indicators of province, national and a healthy city.
Ghadir Firouznia; Nasrin Azarbad; Fatemeh Hashemi Arkavini
Volume 4, Issue 1 , June 2017, , Pages 21-38
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In review relationship between urban and rural areas, with emphasis on the production of horticultural crops in the district Soleghan and Tehran, we could see a two-way relationship. In other words, Horticultural production and sales in a city market With government intervention, either directly or by ...
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In review relationship between urban and rural areas, with emphasis on the production of horticultural crops in the district Soleghan and Tehran, we could see a two-way relationship. In other words, Horticultural production and sales in a city market With government intervention, either directly or by without the intermediary, Can create jobs and incom for the villagers and return of capital to the village to The creation of infrastructure and welfare services, and the general socio - economic development of rural areas. So villagers Encouraged to continue gardening and gardens maintained by and avoid turning them into other jobs. However, with the larger urban centers and the need them for these population centers to good climate zones for Regeneracy, Investment in transport, roads, accommodation and catering facilities and services attract, tourism boom in the region soleghon and also create more links between Tehran and rural districts soleghan is required. In this paper, try that using methods definition - analysis examined the role of rural - urban linkage in rural development with emphasis on horticultural crops. to clarify this issue from The research method from include methods library(Books - Papers the map) and observational( including interviews and Field work) Through the completion of questionnaire By 237 households is used the sample size was chosen as. After analyzing the research data by statistical program spss, results show that the link between rural - urban and rural development, there was a direct relationship and Significant.
Hasan Sajadzadeh; Amir Shakery
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Rapid urbanization and the decline in urban environmental quality, including the lack of green spaces and functional diversity, have significantly affected citizens’ mental health, making the investigation of this relationship increasingly important. This study aims to analyze the impact of urban ...
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Rapid urbanization and the decline in urban environmental quality, including the lack of green spaces and functional diversity, have significantly affected citizens’ mental health, making the investigation of this relationship increasingly important. This study aims to analyze the impact of urban environmental quality components on mental health, using Eram Boulevard in Hamedan as a case study. The research adopts a descriptive–analytical approach with an applied purpose. Data were collected using a localized questionnaire developed based on the WHOQOL-BREF instrument. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed through Cronbach’s alpha (0.921), while construct validity was verified using exploratory factor analysis (KMO = 0.798; Bartlett’s test: p < 0.001). The statistical population consisted of citizens using Eram Boulevard, and the sample size was determined to be 384 based on Cochran’s formula. Sampling was conducted using a cluster–systematic method across the eastern, central, and western sections during both daytime and nighttime periods. The findings reveal that seven components of urban environmental quality—accessibility, functional diversity, environmental quality, safety, nighttime vitality, presence (place usability), and urban landscape and visual quality—have a positive and significant relationship with dimensions of mental health, including vitality, environmental satisfaction, social interaction, sense of calmness, psychological security, sense of belonging, and motivation (p < 0.01). Spearman correlation analysis demonstrated strong relationships among several variables, including accessibility with vitality (ρ = 0.770) and presence (ρ = 0.746), as well as nighttime vitality with psychological security (ρ = 0.694). Robust regression analysis showed that functional diversity, accessibility, and environmental quality explain up to 83.6% of the variance in mental health. In addition, the Friedman test identified accessibility and environmental quality as the highest-priority components. These findings highlight the important role of socio-spatial urban factors in reducing stress and strengthening the sense of belonging, while also providing practical implications for human-centered urban planning. A major contribution of this study is the development of a comprehensive framework for assessing urban environmental quality and proposing a localized model for promoting mental health in medium-sized Iranian cities.
masood Taghvaei; Hossein Kiumarsi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , April 2013, , Pages 25-36
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Rapid expansion of cities in developing countries has had a number of spatial-physical consequences including imbalance distribution of service-related land-use in cities, especially metropolitan areas. Shiraz as a metropolitan in Iran is no exception. Intensive concentration of service-related land-use ...
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Rapid expansion of cities in developing countries has had a number of spatial-physical consequences including imbalance distribution of service-related land-use in cities, especially metropolitan areas. Shiraz as a metropolitan in Iran is no exception. Intensive concentration of service-related land-use in few areas of the city has led to deprivation of the rest parts of the city to enjoy urban facilities and services. Urban parks distribution is an example of the mentioned situation. Public parks regardless of their function to clean the environment have an important role in citizen’s health conditions. Assessing the spatial distribution of local and regional parks of Shiraz indicates that there is a high concentration of such features in central area of the city and its nearby lots. Accessibility to such parks is not easy for most residents and the influence areas of the parks are intersected in most cases. The present study was aimed to show the optimal site locations for public parks in Shiraz. Therefore, first effective criteria for urban park locations were defined based on current land-use map of the city, and then using Hierarchical Analysis Process method, the criteria and sub-criteria were weighted. Finally, based on network analysis and defining influence area methods, 14 local parks and 3 regional parks were proposed in suitable locations.
