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Mohammad Ajza Shokouhi; Saadi mohammadi; elham davari; chnoor mohammadi; Majid Akbari
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Nowadays, livability reflects a robust discourse in urban development and urban design that has prevailed in the history of urban planning. Urban livability, on the one hand, testifies to the strong influence and attractiveness of the city, and on the other hand, intensifies urban communication and works ...
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Nowadays, livability reflects a robust discourse in urban development and urban design that has prevailed in the history of urban planning. Urban livability, on the one hand, testifies to the strong influence and attractiveness of the city, and on the other hand, intensifies urban communication and works by attracting more investment and human and cultural resources. Therefore, the viability of the city is closely related to a healthy city, ecological city and sustainable urban development. The present article seeks to create a practical understanding and knowledge for officials and managers of urban planning in the metropolis of Mashhad in the field of identifying and leveling key factors affecting urban viability. In terms of purpose, this study is applied, in terms of method, it is descriptive-analytical and in terms of data collection method, it is a combination of documentary-survey method. To conduct this research, after reviewing the research background and using the opinion of experts, 22 factors affecting viability in three dimensions were identified. Then, using interpretive structural modeling technique and using a questionnaire, the factors were classified into eight groups. Then, after determining the level of each factor and also considering the final availability matrix, the final model of the interpretive structure was drawn. The results showed that factors such as equitable distribution of infrastructure facilities and services, creating desirable and diverse transportation, meeting daily needs, creating employment and sustainable income, developing mixed land uses and urban diversity and creativity are among key and effective factors in relation to livability in Mashhad metropolis.
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Hamid Reza Rakhshaninasab; Mojtaba Soleimani Damaneh; Marzieh Sedaghat kish
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The housing sector has an important role in economic growth due to its strong relationship with other economic sectors. In the last two decades, the housing sector has faced sharp price fluctuations in urban areas of the country. Housing price instability is the most prominent feature of this sector. ...
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The housing sector has an important role in economic growth due to its strong relationship with other economic sectors. In the last two decades, the housing sector has faced sharp price fluctuations in urban areas of the country. Housing price instability is the most prominent feature of this sector. The present study evaluates and analyzes the effective components on the uncontrolled increase of urban housing prices in Zahedan. The research method is applied based on the purpose and descriptive-analytical based on the nature and method. Documentary and field survey methods have been used to collect information. The statistical population of the study consists of specialists and experts in the urban area of Zahedan, using the Delphi technique, 20 specialists were selected as a sample. The validity of the researcher-made questionnaire was confirmed by experts in the field and the reliability of the data was calculated by Cronbach's alpha test (0.927). To analyze the data, stepwise regression test and to determine the share of each of the factors affecting housing prices in Zahedan, multi-criteria DEMATEL, SWARA and BWM techniques have been applied. The results of stepwise regression showed that the physical index with beta coefficient of 0.302 had the greatest effect and the environmental index with beta coefficient of 0.118 had the least effect on increasing housing prices in Zahedan. The results of DEMATEL technique showed that the access index with a value of 29.594 has the highest interaction and the environmental index with a value of 28.378 has the lowest interaction. The economic index with a value of 1.926 is the most effective factor and the access index with a value of -3.685 is the most influential factor. The results of SWARA technique showed the status of the indicators affecting the increase of housing prices in Zahedan as follows: economic index with a final weight of 0.238 in the first rank, environmental index with a weight of 0.202 in the second rank, social index with a weight of 0.173 0 in the third rank, administrative index with a weight of 0.149 in the fourth rank, physical index with a weight of 0.128 in the fifth rank and finally access index with a weight of 0.111 in the sixth rank. The results of BWM technique also determined the status of the indicators in the following order: economic index with a value of 0.177 in the first rank, environmental index with a value of 0.176 in the second rank, social index with a value of 0.165 in the third rank, administrative index with a value of 0.164 in the fourth rank, physical index with a value of 0.163 in the fifth rank and finally access index with a value of 0.151 in the sixth rank.
Research Paper
miri Bahareh; Aeizh Azmi; Mohmmad Akbarpour
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Sustainable housing is the center of economic and social activities of rural households and a factor affecting their well-being. The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the structural and functional stability of rural housing in Sarfirouzabad district, Kermanshah Township. Based on nature, ...
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Sustainable housing is the center of economic and social activities of rural households and a factor affecting their well-being. The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the structural and functional stability of rural housing in Sarfirouzabad district, Kermanshah Township. Based on nature, the present study is applied-developmental, based on scope, it is case study, and based on method is descriptive-analytical. The reliability of the research (using Cronbach's alpha coefficient) is equal to 0.94 and the validity of the research was confirmed by the opinion of geographers. The statistical population of the study includes 527 households. The Cochran's formula was used to determine the sample size. Cochran's formula was used to determine the sample size, which resulted in the selection of 216 rural households. The sampling method was simple random. The results showed that six villages (66%) were recognized as sustainable villages in terms of housing sustainability, 1 village (11%) as semi-sustainable villages and 2 villages (22%) as unstable villages. Also, the item of durability of materials with a total effect of 0.317 was in the first priority, while the item of building strength with an overall effect of -0.153 had the lowest impact and is in the last priority.
Research Paper
Mahmood Ziaee; Ali Delshad; Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard; Abolfazl Tajzadeh Namin
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The competitiveness of tourist destinations has a good place in the literature and theoretical foundations of tourism studies, however, in the field of research it is full of inconsistencies and contradictions in terms of concept, measurement and legitimacy. The purpose of this study was to provide a ...
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The competitiveness of tourist destinations has a good place in the literature and theoretical foundations of tourism studies, however, in the field of research it is full of inconsistencies and contradictions in terms of concept, measurement and legitimacy. The purpose of this study was to provide a holistic and systematic view of studies in the field of competitiveness of tourism destinations and analysis of previous research in the hierarchy of the scientific paradigm of this field of tourism studies. Therefore, in order to create a deeper understanding of the characteristics, factors and how to measure and improve the competitiveness of tourism destinations, a qualitative meta-analysis method was used to collect and analyze previous researches and Blaikie Triple Index was used to analyze these researches in the hierarchy of the scientific paradigm of tourism competitiveness studies. The results show that in the last two decades, much attention has been paid to the research of tourism destinations competitiveness and to overcome the complexities of this field of tourism studies, researchers have sought to integrate previous models in order to come up with new findings. Other results of this study, which distinguish it from other studies, show that in the hierarchy of the scientific paradigm of this field of tourism studies, 61% of previous studies, after answering the question of what (epistemology), have addressed the issue of why (ontology). Also, a small number of studies related to the competitiveness of tourism destinations (15%) have tried to provide a new model for how to measure the competitiveness of tourist destinations by going through the two levels of what and why (methodology). The final finding of this research is to provide a conceptual framework in which the interaction of factors and variables of competitiveness of tourist destinations with a systemic and holistic perspective is specified.
Research Paper
Ali Asghar Shalbafian; Neda Zarandian
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Sustainable tourism development planning based on the existing potentials in any region of the country is an obvious necessity. Considering the adoption of a government development approach to Semnan province in recent years, this province can be considered as a good case to study. The east of the province, ...
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Sustainable tourism development planning based on the existing potentials in any region of the country is an obvious necessity. Considering the adoption of a government development approach to Semnan province in recent years, this province can be considered as a good case to study. The east of the province, despite its high potential for tourism development as well as its geographical area, has received less attention. The purpose of this study is to identify the most important sustainable tourism projects in the east of Semnan province. For this purpose, applied, descriptive (non-experimental) and combined (qualitative-quantitative) research can be pursued. First, a focus group (qualitative method) consisting of 12 experts including officials, university professors and local people was used to identify the projects. After that, 30 output projects were ranked according to the degree of compliance with the criteria of sustainable development and the goals defined in the upstream documents using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) (quantitative method). According to the ranking, training the local people of the region, providing the necessary infrastructure in the sample areas and target villages, and determining appropriate marketing methods and preparing an advertising plan for tourism development in the region are of priority.
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MOHAMAD TAGHI heydari; marayam rahmani; majid hazrati; mohamad taghi boueini
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Land use management is one of the important axes of sustainable development, resource conservation and proper use of resources. The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of local managers in land use management and prevent informal land use change in rural areas of Khoramdareh Township. ...
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Land use management is one of the important axes of sustainable development, resource conservation and proper use of resources. The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of local managers in land use management and prevent informal land use change in rural areas of Khoramdareh Township. The research method is descriptive-analytical and data collection has been done using documentary and field studies. The statistical population is the villages of Khoramdareh Township with a population of 12582 people, of which 373 individuals were evaluated by Morgan table sampling method. Regression analysis was used for data analysis using ERDAS and SPSS software. During the study period (1969 to 2013), 1721.6 hectares of land in Khoramdareh Township has undergone land use change. During this period, 176 hectares have been converted to industrial use and 1545 hectares to agricultural use. The satisfaction of the statistical community with the performance of local management in land use management was 0.726; which means that from the statistical community point of view, local management has a direct and high impact on land use management and monitoring of land use change. Among the local management performance indicators, the highest level of satisfaction was with the index of "monitoring rural land use" (β = 0.447) and the lowest level of satisfaction was with the index of "rural economy development (agriculture)" (β = 0.227). In order to have a better land use management, it is necessary to increase supervision, change the use in accordance with the environmental capabilities and prepare the land use cadaster of the region.
Research Paper
hajar asadpour; Mahdi Montazerolhodjah; Mojtaba Sharifnejad
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Hafez Street in Shiraz, as the axis connecting the Quran Gate to the Isfahan Gate, has lost its visual coherence due to the interventions of recent decades. Therefore, its place in the mental image and perceptual structure of citizens needs to be examined. The purpose of this study is to identify the ...
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Hafez Street in Shiraz, as the axis connecting the Quran Gate to the Isfahan Gate, has lost its visual coherence due to the interventions of recent decades. Therefore, its place in the mental image and perceptual structure of citizens needs to be examined. The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of each of the physical components affecting the visual perception of citizens and to examine the relationship between them. The research method is "survey and correlation" and the required data have been collected through field studies such as photography, mapping and taking notes, as well as questionnaires and documentary studies. The sample size was calculated using the Cochran's formula and the available sampling method was used to complete the questionnaire. Multivariate regression test was used to analyze the data. The results indicate that the "readability" component has the greatest impact on citizens' visual perception, and in the next priorities are the "clarity" and "human scale" components. On the other hand, the "diversity in the environment" has had the least effect on the visual perception of this street. Finally, some strategies were proposed to improve the visual perception of observers in order to improve the performance of existing urban spaces in addition to creating stronger mental images of the city.
Research Paper
Mehdi ebrahimi boozani; Fahimie Fadaei jazi
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Housing is one of the main concerns of governments in countries all over the world. In Iran, after the increasing pace of population growth, various policies were implemented to provide housing. One of the policies implemented in the second half of the 2000s was the Mehr Comprehensive Housing Plan. The ...
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Housing is one of the main concerns of governments in countries all over the world. In Iran, after the increasing pace of population growth, various policies were implemented to provide housing. One of the policies implemented in the second half of the 2000s was the Mehr Comprehensive Housing Plan. The purpose of Mehr project was to provide low-income groups with fast, cheap and high-quality housing. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the quality of life in order to measure the success rate of one of the major projects in Mehr housing neighborhood of Shahinshahr. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of nature. The data were obtained in two ways: library (to formulate theoretical foundations) and field (to study the quality of life in the neighborhood). The statistical population of the study is the residents of Mehr Shahinshahr housing neighborhood with a population of 6400 households. The sample size, estimated by Cochran's method, is equivalent to 400 heads of households. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis and Chi-square test were used to analyze the 40 indicators. The results showed that the average of five indicators was higher than the average of satisfaction. These indicators include: 1- Access to public transportation, 2- Access to water, electricity and gas facilities, 3- Access to heating and cooling facilities inside the complex, 4- Management of the complex and 5- Access to parking. The average satisfaction of other studied indicators (87.5% of the indicators) was less than 3, which indicates the strong dissatisfaction of the residents of Mehr Shahinshahr housing neighborhood with the quality of life in this neighborhood.
