Geography And Urben Planning
Batul Majid; Saman Heydari
Volume 8, Issue 16 , September 2017, , Pages 13-22
Abstract
The neighborhoods of Tehran Metropolis are one of the most fundamental social – physical elements and are considered as important communication links between the citizens. One of the key issues in city regions is spatial identityand ignoring this matter causes the citizens do not feel like belonging ...
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The neighborhoods of Tehran Metropolis are one of the most fundamental social – physical elements and are considered as important communication links between the citizens. One of the key issues in city regions is spatial identityand ignoring this matter causes the citizens do not feel like belonging to their place of residence. Consequently, the unsustainable neighborhood is formed. The present study aims to assess and analyze spatial identity of Sanglaj as one of the old regions of Tehran in the 12th zone. The research method is descriptive-analytic and required data were collected through a survey using a questionnaire. The research population consisted of all citizens over 18 years old in Sanglaj, among whom 115 were sellected as participants throughnon-probabilistic sampling method.The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software.The results showed that there is a significant positive correletion between place-belonging, sociability, comfort, and access to service variables. In addition, it was found that there is a meaningful relationship between age and local identity as well as a significant difference between local identity and period of residence; that is those whose period of residence was longer, have evaluated the spatial identity of region better. Generally, it was found that, according to the participants, the residents’ spatial identification was not desirable in this study.
Geography And Urben Planning
Zohreh Fanni; Saman Heydari; Parviz Aghaei
Volume 6, Issue 12 , November 2015, , Pages 65-78
Abstract
Today thanks to social justice and welfare schools, the concept of urban life quality has been more focused on; and in order to increase the quality of urban life in Iran, various discussions and efforts have been also done over the past years. In this regard, using the theoretical issues and the ...
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Today thanks to social justice and welfare schools, the concept of urban life quality has been more focused on; and in order to increase the quality of urban life in Iran, various discussions and efforts have been also done over the past years. In this regard, using the theoretical issues and the most important corresponding indicators, this study aimed to evaluate the life quality of Ghorveh residents, in general, and the differences between the life quality of women and men, in particular. The methodology employed in this study was descriptive analytical. The data were collected through qualitative field research, from libraries and questionnaires, and then were analyzed by SPSS software.The results of the study showed that the quality of life for Ghorveh residents was not at a desirable level and the average of indices was totally less than 3. The highest average was related to the neighborhood index with 3.24 and the lowest average was to do with economic with 1.99. The results obtained from the independent tow-sample T also indicated that there was a significant difference between the life quality of men and women in Ghorveh that is the life quality of men was better than that of women. Finally, the results showed that employment failed to improve the life quality of women.
