Geography And Urben Planning
Mostafa Amirfakhrian; Hossain Mobini
Abstract
Since reconstruction projects are aimed restoration of identity and revitalizing the worn texture while preserving its social texture, maintaining social life and identity of the previous range is one of the challenges facing these plans. In order to investigate the effect of physical reconstruction ...
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Since reconstruction projects are aimed restoration of identity and revitalizing the worn texture while preserving its social texture, maintaining social life and identity of the previous range is one of the challenges facing these plans. In order to investigate the effect of physical reconstruction interventions on the social sustainability of the elongated tissue, this study examined the social changes caused by the Majd reconstruction project in the Mashhad city district in terms of residents. To this end, using the qualitative and quantitative methods and completing 630 questionnaires from the residents of the neighborhood, the status of social sustainability indicators was measured before and after the project. The results of the Wilcoxon test showed that changes in social sustainability indices from the point of view of the public, before and after the implementation of the project, are in many cases meaning that, in terms of residents, the level of happiness in the neighborhood after the project was reduced to 50%. Also, the willingness to attend the neighborhood has decreased by 10% and the factors creating insecurity have increased. In addition, the status of indicators such as the sense of roving, and social inhomogeneity, increase, and the desire to stay in the neighborhood have decreased with regards to the residents, this has reduced social solidarity to 60% in the neighborhood. The presence of strangers and tissue evacuation from old residents, which are indicators of social sustainability.
