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2015
This descriptive-analytical study attempted to investigate the quality of life in urban areas of Iran. Sonqor City of Kermanshah Province was selected as a case. Field and documentary data collection methods were used. To collect the field data, researcher-designed questionnaires were used, of which the validity was confirmed by expert judgment and the reliability was confirmed using Cronbach’s alpha (0.893). The population comprised all the residents of Sonqor City (n=46181). Using Cochran formula, 382 individuals were selected as sample and questionnaires were randomly distributed among them. Results demonstrated that among the 9 aspects of quality of life investigated in Sonqor City, satisfaction with the three aspects of housing, transportation and education, which have coefficients of variation of 0.319, 0.331, and 0.412 respectively, are the most important aspects. Moreover, general results of quality of life of Sonqor residents revealed that 75 percent of the respondents had ...
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Urbanization, a precarious scenario is globally spread which is revamping thewhole concept of urban planning. To handle the expansion radically increased urban area, thelocal government faces challenges particularly in planning for future. However, Quality Of Life (QOL) is a tool that expandscity into sustainable manner by improving environmental, educational, social, economic, political, health, and infrastructural conditions through objective and subjective appraisal. QOL is the path that builds a measure over happiness and satisfaction for thegovernment in the mind of citizens. Current research paper discusses about anassessment of QOL in city Surat located in Gujarat, India. This descriptive-analytical study carried out through aquestionnaires-household field survey of 385 respondents in seven zones of Surat city. Collected data was analyzedusing spreadsheets. Cronbach's alpha for survey data was observed a value of 0.873. The analysis shows that environmental, health, social, and education index are highest in the SouthWest Zone. Economic index seems to be highest in the Central Zone and infrastructure index is the highest in the West Zone. The North Zone gets lowest environmental, health, social, political and educational index. However, the South Zone shows thelowest infrastructure and economic index. Among all zones in Surat, theQOL for the North Zone (2.77) was worst and for the SouthWest Zone was found to be excellent (3.52). A discussion over recommendations to improve QOL of Surat city concludes the paper.
2015, American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics
Urban districts are amongst the main economic, social and political centers of every country which are well known as the focal points of wealth, work, creativity and innovation. These centers, however, are faced with challenges such as social inequality, insecurity, unemployment, inadequate housing, traffic congestion and marginalization, which are dramatically reduced in quality of urban life. Policymakers and planners in national and international levels emphasize the ability of cities to promote quality of human’s life. Informal settlement, which is not considered as an outcome of Iran economic-social transformations, has turned into an important and controversial issue in most Iranian urban areas. The low quality of urban life is readily observable in these areas. Using a descriptive—analytical method, the present paper aims to analyze how residents settled in these areas perceive the quality of life in their neighborhoods. To achieve this goal, Structural Equation Models (SEM) with LISREL 8.50 Software was applied as the research tool. Finding shows economy is the most leading factor to reduce the quality of urban life in informal settlements, which in turn brings about a serious residential, health and recreation issues.
— as a basic concept, sustainability is a holistic theory for all the living affairs including economy, community, and environment that provided the basis of the sustainable design. Sustainability is an interdisciplinary concept which entangled with considerable efforts of many specialists, movements, and specialized disciplines. Therefore, as one of the most significant human settlements in modern metropolitans such as Mashhad city some majors including architecture, urban design, and urban development have pivotal role in providing appropriate setting and high quality and quantity standards for the residents of housing complexes. In line with the principles of sustainable development, the current study seeks to introduce and analyze the affective factors of residents' satisfaction in housing complexes. As descriptive-analytic and position paper and by evaluating the main theoretical models presented by local and foreign scholars for realizing the most effective factors in housing complexes, the present article was performed an analysis for the relationship of residents' satisfaction with the concept of sustainability. Finally, the effective factors of this area were suggested in an analytic-theoretical framework. The obtained results indicate that the effective residents' satisfaction factors in housing complexes of this common area can be classified into three dimensions, namely structural, environmental, and sociocultural. Suitable arrangement of blocks, occupancy level, proper density, scale, and human proportions from spatial-structural aspect, absence of various pollutants, existence of suitable nature and green space from ecological aspect, and finally family and neighborhood relationship, amount of participation in social activities, and management satisfaction from sociocultural aspect are considered as effective factors of this area.With regard to the increase of level of residents' satisfaction in housing complexes, we hope that this article could help the designers recreate a sustainable setting.
BMC Public Health
BackgroundAn essential element in the process of “aging well” is the concept of Active Aging (AA). To propose an operational definition of Active Aging, the present study seeks to develop a new measurement tool through an ecological approach. The aim is to recognize significant indicators that play a role in assessing AA in urban areas.MethodsThis study was conducted through a two-phase process of consensus-building: 1) identifying a set of indicators that were likely candidates for inclusion based on literature review, and 2) a two-round modified Delphi survey using an international panel of academic experts in environmental sciences and gerontology to achieve consensus on the importance of the extracted indicators and validate the items. The panelists were asked to complete a researcher-developed questionnaire with an 11-point Likert scale based on the indicators derived in phase 1. Finally, the Delphi survey’s valid indicators and criteria were utilized to develop the measurement...
2017, Applications of Mathematics and Statistics in Economics
In the era of the urbanisation in any country, development of the city continue with higher population rate, traffic congestion, pollution, migration, unemployment, etc. These problems create the main challenges to manage providing housing and upgrading the infrastructure for improving the quality of life . People migrate from rural to urban area in search of the employment for getting better quality of life. This act will demand provision of housing and infrastructures like water supply, solid waste management, sewerage, electricity, etc. In the absence of the required infrastructure and unaffordable condition of the people, creates slum as a result of a shortage of housing and other infrastructure. Slum has unhealthy and unhygienic condition of living where problems like high density of population, poor condition of houses and lack of infrastructure is there. In Surat as per census 2011 total slum population was 467434 means around 10.6% of the total population. Surat Municipal Corporation has a goal of “Zero Slum City – by the Year 2020”. They have constructed around 55000 EWS and LIG housing till 2014 with huge investment. The intention of SMC is to improve the quality of life for the resident of a slum area. For these various different the schemes are used like as VAMBAY, JnNURM and Mukhya Mantri GRUH Yojana. To understand the process used by SMC one can say that three different approaches are used; that are slum upgradation, slum redevelopment and slum rehabilitation. It is the intention to understand that after relocation of the people, what has changed in their life, how much the quality of life is improved. These QOL is related to physical infrastructure, housing, social infrastructure, economy, transportation and social parameters of the relocated slum dwellers. Main aspect which affect the quality of life of EWS dwellers transportation for livelihood. Distance from livelihood, cost of transportation and time of transportation plays crucial role in the quality of life and economy of them. Social factor is also important factor. Interaction and satisfaction with neighbour is reflecting quality of life of dwellers. So in this all this aspects are cover by conducting survey.
Communications is one of the basic concepts in the social sciences, especially communication sciences, in the present era. The significance of this term comes from the fact that basically man cannot live without communications and it is impossible to build a community without communications. In other words, communications are the cornerstone of the structure of the society, which can be manifested at different levels (Bashir, 2008). Having a radio receiver, each citizen can instantly access information or cultural products since radio has been considered as a tool for social and cultural development anywhere in the world (Saghebfar, 2011). The concept of quality of life was initially limited to the areas of health and mental illnesses, but over the past two decades, this concept has promoted to a multi-dimensional concept from merely health, environmental and psychological domains fields (Anbari, 2010) and turned into the focus of attention of a large number of study areas. Hence, more than 55,000 studies have been conducted on the quality of life from 1982 to 2005 based on the data from the Institute of Scientific Information (Rezvani and Mansourian, 2008). Today, the quality of life is discussed as a key element in policy making and the study of public area policies and referred to as development index. After an initial introduction in the early 1930s, this construct has undergone many changes, and it is increasingly used to measure the progress and development of societies. Since the late 1970s, the interest in the concept of quality of life has increased significantly. From this date onwards, the discussions on the quality of life mostly were focused on the three areas of medicine, psychology, and social sciences. In fact, from the 1930s to the present day, the number of study areas of this construct has been enhanced, leading to the creation of broad literature for the development index.
2015, Cumhuriyet Science Journal
Abstract. Considering today's competitive world and need of cities for introduction and survival in the competitive arena, it is inevitable to regard cities as a product. One of the ways to be introduced into the world's competitive market is through presenting the face of the city, which should be able to attract the audience. It seems that the first factor that is very important in this regard, especially from the viewpoint of tourists, is the dimension of city image and its related factors. City of Mashhad is among the urban tourist destinations in Iran for pilgrimage and religious tourism. This city has its own peculiarities which are caused by the position of this city as the first destination for domestic tourist trips and the spiritual capital city of the country. In this study, using analytical-applied method, the effective factors for the formation of the city image from the viewpoint of pilgrims/tourists is assessed and their current status is studied. The quantita...
2019, International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology
There are calls to review the city's ability to fulfil resident's spectrum needs in order to increase QOL. The interest of this study is to trace the social and urban indicators mentioned in current well-known indexes' factors as base to identify some guide lines that may help when enhancing QOUL in cities. The paper is extracted from a PhD thesis that is aiming at enhancing QOUL through the assessment of socio urban indicators as a baseline in Cairene communities. It consists of three main parts in addition to introduction and conclusion. Starting by literature review that discusses the concept of QOL verses QOUL, well known assessment indexes; with review to social and urban indicators. Followed by a comparative analysis between mentioned indexes based on the main factors including; Urban, social, Environmental, Economic, moreover political and governmental factors. Followed by a detailed qualitative analysis focuses on social and urban indicators. Then discussion reflected in the interrelationship between Factors and indicators to develop a proposal socio urban assessment Criteria. An eight categories socio urban criteria is proposed based on analysis and synthesis processes including rate of repetition of each indicator in studied indexes. A pilot experts' validation is presented in this paper.
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Since early Athenian times, when Aristotle was philosophising about the correct way to live the good life, a proliferation of academic theories and religious texts have considered the question of human quality of life and wellbeing. Which housing characteristics, neighbourhood amenities, and urban public services are important in determining individuals' level of wellbeing or quality of life? How policy makers decide where to focus their limited resources? These are basic but critically important questions for citywide planning authorities and neighbourhood organizations that frequently must make decisions about the provision of urban services as they try to enhance the living standards in cities. Making such decisions is very challengeable since many such services and amenities are not traded in the direct markets, and there is little reason for individuals to disclose their true demands or valuation. This paper presents a summary of the outcomes derived from applying Hedonic a...
2013, Social Indicators Research
2021, Armanshahr
Physical and content deterioration of the distressed textures affect the residents’ sense of social security in these textures and reduce their presence and interaction in the texture, resulting in the reduction of livability and vitality. As one of the distressed textures of Mashhad, Ansar Neighborhood has faced various issues regarding security, vitality, and people’s presence in urban areas. Therefore, the current study aims to assess the impact of security on the livability of distressed textures (Ansar Neighborhood) with an emphasis on the CPTED approach and to provide the Strategis to improve the livability of the studied area. This study is analytical-descriptive research. 370 people are randomly selected from the residents of the Ansar Neighborhood to fill out the questionnaires. Data analysis is conducted using statistical tests, such as t-test, Friedman’s test, Spearman’s rank test in SPSS, and SWOT analysis. The research results indicate that the livability and security of the Ansar Neighborhood are not desirable. Among the livability and security indices, interaction, relationship, and tendency to surveillance are the most desirable indices, and satisfaction, trust in managers, and comfort, respectively, are the most undesirable ones. The results also show a positive correlation between security and livability. Among the security indices, lighting quality and residents’ tendency to surveillance, respectively, have the highest relationship with livability. Based on the conducted analyses, the general strategic orientation of the Ansar neighborhood to improve the livability is of minimum-maximum and adaptive. Organizing the land use system and public open spaces to create vitality and security, and improving the meeting and gathering centers in the neighborhood are the identified solutions to increase the livability with an emphasis on security in Ansar Neighborhood.
Sustainability
Population aging is becoming a major challenge in many countries. This paper deals with the elderly’s specific needs in the public open space as it can play a significant role in their social inclusion and could be especially relevant in deprived areas. The main goal is to build a model to evaluate the vulnerability of the public space by focusing on the elderly’s needs, using indicators. A previous analysis of the scientific and policy-oriented literature and of the technical standards and regulations linked with accessibility and social aspects that affect the elderly in urban areas was performed to identify the main dimensions for evaluation. The interjudge agreement technique was applied to validate the indicators with a panel of experts in technical and social disciplines. The model was applied to a vulnerable area in Castellón (East Spain), based on indicators adapted to the specific context features. The agreement level reached by experts was used to weight the indicators. Th...
As the urban population increases in major cities of Iran, many of them face different issues. In Iran, new towns are built and located near cities to absorb their overflow population. Golbahar new town was built near Mashhad metropolis to reduce demographic, economic, social and physical problems of Mashhad, but in practice considering its goals, the town has not been able to reduce the problems of Mashhad metropolis. In this study, the relationship between the effects of living conditions on social, economic and physical aspects on the repopulation process in new towns has been investigated from the citizens' perspective. This study has been carried out in an empirical method and in some parts, descriptive-analytical methods have been applied; data collection was carried out using field methods (questionnaire) from a sample of 250 urban households. The study results show that there is a significant relationship between the living conditions and the repopulation process in the new towns from the citizens' perspective. They had a correlation coefficient of 0.570. Physical living conditions accounted for 35.7 percent of changes related to repopulation in new towns, and the living conditions in economic aspect only accounted for 20% of the dependent variable. Taking study results into account, the following guidelines were recommended for Golbahar new town: providing evenly distributed urban infrastructure and facilities, creating employment opportunities in various fields, making way for easy and good communications with metropolitan cities, building recreation and cultural centers and sport clubs for the youth and teenagers, providing and maintaining security as the basis of development in every place.
Today the quality of urban life is the key concept in urban planning .on this basis in many countries the planners are trying to show the different geographical levels so that they enable identify optimal solutions to improve lives of disadvantages areas according to studied indices. The goal of this research is analyzing the quality life of citizens in city of Zabol. In present study, the quality of life have been considered as an interaction among sources, possibilities and provided opportunities for supplying human needs and also receive, assessment and satisfactory of individuals and groups for meeting their needs in a specific location .the research method is descriptive – analytic and is based on documentary librarian, field studies. To achieve this goal we set out to investigate and gather information and questionnaires were distributed in city of Zabol and have been analyzed by using Vicor model. The result assessment and ranking of different districts of Zabol according to seven indices of quality of life using VIKOR model have been studied and shows that district 3 is in first place and district 4 is in fifth place. Introduction Quality of life in terms of a wide range of fields, including the fields of international development, healthcare, and politics is being used. Quality of life should not be a standard of living that is based largely on income, confused. Instead, standard indicators Quality of life include not only wealth and employment, but also include environmental, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure, and social belonging, too. Discussion of the quality of life and sustainable development released today in literature to plan for social development and the new economy topics raised and has special status and national and local-level Governments and many institutions on its index and measurement of work (Kharazmi, 2008). In the new issue of sustainable human development is a major emphasis on the important issues of the policy-based allocation of resources more efficient, which is a major issue of social justice is Possible (Marsoosi, 2004: 25). Consequently, during the most recent decades, policy makers, social welfare and improve their living standards Persisted (Jabbari, 2002: 55). With the beginning of the 1980s, a common attitude with titles Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) and Physical Quality of life Index (PQLI) were raised (Henderson and et al, 2000). Quality of life assessment of infant mortality, literacy and life expectancy as criteria for assessment of welfare and well-being, opinions (Ekins and Max, 1992). Today, most of the urban quality of life as a key concept in urban planning. On this basis in many developed countries, planners are trying to show the levels of quality of life in the different geographical levels are optimal solutions can be used in this way to improve the quality of life of backward regions and they examined. One of the major concerns of every General Manager in the professional decision making activities for achieving, maintaining and improving productivity, which is the most important topics of interest to the Organization (Azar & Azim, 2002) and is one of the principles of decision making for managers, performance evaluation, which shall be in the form of being scientific has an effective decisions help (Mirghafori & Shafiei, 2007). Due to the holistic approach lies in the quality of life issues, analysis and evaluation in developing countries, and the main role in the holistic planning. Iran, which is a development of the people in connection with the geographical formation, forming the shape of a model is the severity of spatial development was commenced. (Faraji، 2010: 3).
International Journal of Community Well-Being
The research here presented originates from some of the ongoing challenges of our society: the demographic changes and the high share of population living in urban areas. The aim of the research is the definition of an index of sustainability and quality of life for elderly at suburban scale, not only able to outline aspects related to the local territorial context but also to represent the neighbourhood level. This would provide significant added value to existing indicators that represent the quality of life for much larger areas as cities, regions and nations. Indeed, it is universally recognised that the quality of life varies quite considerably depending on whether you live in different neighbourhoods or urban areas. The index proposed with the research is elaborated on the base of objective and subjective indicators integrated with the judgment of experts, in order to give an accurate and truthful weight to each indicator. Moreover, it has been elaborated for microscale analysis, dividing urban areas into cells, in order to highlight more in detail the real needs of each specific zone. As a result, the elaborated index would be an available tool to be provided to the local public administration to facilitate and optimise the urban planning and management, prioritizing interventions on the base of the sustainability principles and subjective needs of the population, in particular of elderly.
2020, Journal of Urban Culture Research
Recently competitiveness has become one of the most used concepts in the urban and regional planning literature. This research aims to show the competitive situation of the eight metropolises in Iran based on the quality of life indices. The analytical, descriptive method used in this research to show the facts that are involved in different metropolises. Applying framework, required information gathered from world cities information center (NUMBEO https://www.numbeo. com/). ELECTRE III (ELimination Et Choix Traduisant la REalité, in French) is an effective Multi Criteria Decision Analysis method. The results indicate that important effective factors in population selection of living in the metropolis are commuting time or traffic, the ratio of income to property price and health. Hence, metropolis ranking demonstrates that in terms of quality of life Shiraz placed on the first level and Ahwaz at the last level. Isfahan, Qom, Tabriz, Mashhad, Tehran, and Karaj respectively ranked from second to seventh. Tehran as the capital city with the highest population concentration does not have enough competitive power against other metropolises and for entering into the international system require deliberate attention to the effective factors of quality of life. In addition, the results show the application of the framework in measuring metropolis competitiveness based on the quality of life is very important and competitive can promote sustainability, adaptability, and quality of planning.
2019, Shabestan research center
Today, the quality and quantity of urban spaces has become one of the most important developmental indicators in the cities. The management of citizenship relations and increase of social interactions level and presence of people in urban spaces have been considered as the backbone and capital of a dynamic and vibrant community. The purpose of this study was to determine and evaluate the effective indicators on promoting social interactions in urban spaces with a happy city approach. Sampling method was determined by multi-stage comparative stratified sampling and the number of samples was determined by using Cochran formula about 384 people in Qaemshahr. Data collection tool was a research hypothesis questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the data. Inferential statistics were used to analyze the hypotheses by SPSS and LISREL software. Four effective factors for promoting social interactions were extracted. These factors are as follows: the first priority is the sense of belonging to the place (5.10), the second priority is security (3.95), the third priority is the urban pedestrian (3.67) and the fourth priority was urban furniture (3.60). The results show that all the components affect the promotion of social interactions in the city's public spaces.
Technologies
Nowadays, we are on the cusp of a future that will face many global challenges and crises, as well as unforeseeable shocks of tomorrow. The rapid growth and development of technology will bring forth exponential change that may challenge and threaten our human psychology. Solutions and policies are needed to deal with today’s challenges, tomorrow’s shocks, and global crises to preserve the world and mankind for the future. In this research, Blue-Green sustainable mobility technologies are introduced as a pathway to create modern sustainable and livable urban areas to tackle these challenges. Clean and inclusive mobility, based on Blue-Green and sustainable infrastructure, low emission greenhouse gases, ubiquitous computing, smartness and digitalization is realized as one of the keys that could make the world a better place for living. This research examines inclusive transportation technology, its indicators and its impacts on creating modern livable urban areas with high a quality ...
2019, International Graduate Conference of Built Environment and Surveying
Transparency is a crucial factor in considering investment in the real estate market, thus its absence in a property market is seen by some researchers in the field as related to corruption in the property market, thus low transparency or opacity being synonymous to corruption, without empirical proof. This study therefore, tested the relationship between the real estate market transparency and individual country’s level of corruption and population size using indexes from two independent global rating bodies, the Jones Lang LaSalle’s Global Real Estate Transparency Index (GRETI) and the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 96 countries for an average of 6 years in order to determine whether the assertion is true. The study adopted the Pearson Correlation to justify the assertion that a nation’s transparency index is dependent on its corruption level vis-à-vis population density. It was found out that there is a strong correlation between the level of corruption in a nation and its transparency level giving a 0.740 correlation coefficient at 1% significance level, while there was no significant relationship between a country’s population density and its transparency level and corruption on the other hand. In conclusion, the study adopted Regression to develop an equation that could predict a markets transparency level given its corruption index. This study has statistically proven that there exists a correlation between transparency and corruption using an aggregate of at least 6 years for each of the market studied. The study concludes that the Transparency International’s CPI can be used to determine a yearly transparency level of a nations’ property market, rather than waiting for GRETI’s index which is publishable once in two years. The study recommends that, in order to achieve a more transparent market, it is paramount for low transparent and opaque nations to fight against corruption.
2018
In recent decades, inconsistent growth in urban environment has had an impact on the quality of urban life, and historical and valuable textures, resulting in urban problems and forcing urban officials to adopt new approaches. Accordingly, refinement and improvement approaches have evolved over time with urban renaissance as the new approach. The current research assesses the quality of urban life in the historical context of Imam Ali Square in Isfahan, based on social, economical and physical criteria with urban renaissance. The research has used SWOT technique and Analytic Network Process (ANP) for the analysis. The research results showed a significant relationship between criteria and sub-criteria with an improved quality of urban life and the alternative of renaissance. The economic criterion was the most important element for improving the quality of life. The satisfaction level of the neighborhood criteria was for social quality, and the housing and land market criteria were ...
2021, Journal of Urban Management
Rapid urban population growth stimulates the challenges of city government authorities inproviding the municipal services adequately considering the citizen’s demand. While the gappersists between the service provision and citizen’s perception on it, the quality of life of citiesmay deteriorate due to psychological dissatisfaction of dwellers with urban services. Hence theevaluation of the urban service quality from the citizen’s perspective and accordingly addressingthe gap is necessary for sustainable urban management. This study shows a common frameworkincorporating SERVQUAL, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Citizen’s Score Card to definethe quality of municipal services spatially and functionally based on the satisfaction of citizens.The items under the dimensions of SERVQUAL and the weightages of each dimension were setthrough literature review and expert opinion. Dhaka, the only megacity of Bangladesh is experi-encing an impetuous growth towards its northern portion and Dhaka North City Corporation(DNCC) is the responsible authority to supply the municipal facilities within this area. Nine res-idential neighborhoods having homogeneous characteristics in terms of population density, resi-dential land use, built up area and income level within the jurisdictional area of DNCC wereselected to collect the data. The data were collected through household questionnaire survey usingstratified random sampling technique where people responded for each SERVQUAL questions andscored the facilities provided by the DNCC. The result shows citizens are moderately satisfied(63.3%) with municipal services aggregately. To meet the demand of dwellers, the city govern-ment authority should be more functional, reliable and participatory and be equipped withqualified manpower and facilities. Despite the locational characteristics are uniform among thecase areas, Ward 3, Ward 4 and Ward 31 are in unprivileged state in terms of municipal services.The facilities of public toilet, parking and disaster management activities performed by DNCC arecommonly in unsatisfactory state in all areas that require special attention from the authority.Based on thefindings, it could be stated that where the city government authority is roughlyunsusceptible to meet the demand of the existing population, the enormous population growthwithin urban areas could affect the life quality poorly. Therefore this paper would fetch a coursewhere the deficiency on urban services would be evaluated under a common arena considering the psychological aspect of citizen, thereby priority interventions could be ascertained for enhancingthe life quality of urban areas.
2015
Today urban performance not only depends on the presence of physical capital, but also increasingly depends on human and social capitals. Cities are beyond the appearance. Social and cultural aspects of each city are regarded as latent aspects in urban planning, which have received less attention from theoretical and practical fields due to their non-physical nature and the difficulty to understand. Referring to the evolution of urban planning theories, this reseach attempts to study Paul Davidoff’s advocacy planning approach as one of the first intellectual principles in social, cultural and urban planning. The theoretical framework of this research can be selected with regard to a number of indices and in the light of theoretical principles of urban planning, planning design and research experiences worldwide, especially in Iran. Citizen participation in urban planning requires pattern designing.The plans and decisions are already designed and made in technical-centered pattern. E...
2015
Urban quality of life represents more than the private “living standards” and refers to all the elements of the conditions in which people live, that is, all their needs and requirements. In economic literature, urban quality of life is usually assessed through the standard revealed-preference approach, which defines a QOL index as the monetary value of urban amenities. This paper proposes an innovative methodology to measure urban QOL with special highlight on subjective criteria. According to this methodology, urban QOL is usually measured through subjective criteria resulted from monitoring and assessing citizens’ perceptions from and satisfaction with urban life or using objective criteria derived from secondary data and it is rarely assessed using both of these two criteria. This methodology is applied to derive QOL indices for the city of Yazd. In this study, 400 families were selected from among the chosen neighborhoods using two-step clustering method. Statistical methods su...
Cities
Nordic Journal of Social Research
Introduction: In this paper, parents’ well-being is examined from their subjective point of view of their living experiences in a certain residential area. The subjective viewpoint is relevant as the focus of the research is interlinked with residential areas. Aims: The research aims to determine what meaning parents ascribe to their residential area (suburb or city centre) as a space for physical, social and psychological well-being. It also aims to discover whether there are qualitative differences between the given meanings of parents living in different areas. Methods: The data were acquired through semi-structured interviews with parents who live in a suburb or the city centre of Lahti, Finland. Data analysis was conducted using abductive thematic analysis. Results: The results revealed that physical, social and psychological spaces were experienced differently depending on the residential area in question. In parents’ narration about the physical space, in both areas the basic...
2009, International Journal of Architectural Research
2000
2017, Kuchmaeva O.V., Maryganova E.A., Mahova O.A., Maksimova T.P. Implementing the Concept of Sustainable Development in Russia: Developing the Childhood Infrastructure // European Research Studies Journal Volume XX, Issue 4B, 2017 - pp. 522-535
The purpose of this work is to find the relevant differentiation of quality and accessibility assessments for the services provided by infrastructure institutions, and satisfaction with living environment by families of different types from urban and rural areas of Russia. To obtain an objective picture and evaluate the implementation of the Concept of Sustainable Development in Russia consistent with the interests of families with children, one should consider not only the official statistics, but also the results of sample surveys of target groups. Integrating information from different sources allows obtaining a more reliable and completing assessment of the development of social infrastructure for families with children. The social infrastructure should be developed according to the needs and wishes of the citizens. The findings of the study are based on an analysis of official statistics for the period of 2005-2014 and the results of the representative sample study " Comprehensive monitoring of the population's living conditions ". To examine the study assumptions, relevant statistical analysis methods have been applied the differences in distribution of answers between urban and rural families have been analyzed using the Pearson's coefficient. This study has proven that the estimates given by respondents living in urban and rural areas are much less different from the statistics for the types of relevant settlements. Reducing the number of institutions that provide families that have children with healthcare, education and leisure services has not shown negative assessments of respondents yet, but the social infrastructure should be developed in accordance with the needs and wishes of the citizens.
2011, European Urban and Regional Studies
Much of rural Europe has witnessed vast changes over the past two decades, including major demographic and economic change. The question of how these changes have affected individual well-being and quality of life remains largely unanswered. This paper aims to shed light on this topic by employing both qualitative and quantitative research methods in the analysis of rural quality of life in Ireland, including focus groups, locally-specific surveys and two representative surveys of individuals carried out in 2001 and 2007. We use the respondents’ self-reported life satisfaction level as a proxy for their well-being to examine the determinants of quality of life and also examine how attitudes have changed over this period. Results show a consistently high life satisfaction in rural Ireland. The greatest changes are witnessed in attitudes to the provision of facilities and services. Respondents’ perceptions of the benefits and limitations of rural living remain constant between the two...
2021, Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Quality of life is a concept used to describe the development of the welfare of society, and improving the quality of life is one of the most important goals of governments around the world. Informal settlements, as one of the most vulnerable urban areas, are always in unfavorable conditions in terms of various social, economic, and physical indicators. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the status of various quality of life indicators in informal settlements around the metropolis of Tehran in Iran. This research is descriptive, analytical, and correlational based on primary data in which the initial data are collected through the documentary and survey (field) method using a questionnaire. The collected data were processed by SPSS and SmartPLS software. Based on the results of the t-test, quality of life indices in informal settlements around the metropolis of Tehran, on a Likert scale with an average of 23.2, is at a low level. Also, the results of the PSL...
2011, Asian Social Science
2011, Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning 52nd Annual Conference
The modernist planning tradition was imported from Europe to Africa during colonialism and later became part of national planning policies of some developing countries. It was used in the form of the new town model to establish new capital cities such as Abuja, Dodoma, Gaborone, and Lilongwe in Africa and Brasilia, Islamabad and New Delhi in other developing countries. Based on rational plans, modernist planners proposed to distribute urban services to all classes of residents irrespective of race/ethnicity or wealth in these cities. However, challenges such as rapid urbanization and limited resources in the global South undermine these assumptions. In addition, socioeconomic and political forces such as income, race/ethnicity and bureaucratic interference often influence planning implementation resulting in uneven service distribution. Using Abuja as a case study, this paper explores how these factors are overwhelming the effectiveness of the modernist approach to provide basic tap water, refuse collection and sewerage services. The federal capital of Nigeria was relocated to Abuja in 1991 from Lagos because of overcrowdings, high traffic congestion and the dearth of basic services. Yet, one of the intricate problems currently facing Abuja is the provision of basic services to its population that is rapidly growing. Because the development of Abuja is in principle guided by the Abuja Master Plan that proposed equal provision of urban services to all residents of the “ethnically neutral” city, this paper studies the factors behind the reality and what the city was intended to be in its Master Plan. This study uses a combination of survey data conducted during the review of Abuja Master Plan, personal observation of the condition of service facilities and review of archives and documents. The findings from multivariate regression provide insights into patterns of the distribution of urban services and the extent to which the service performance, as rated by households, is associated with household characteristics such as ethnicity and employment types, and closeness to city center. The paper concludes with a set of lessons from this study that will inform other modernist projects in the developing countries and recommend policies on ways to mitigate the problems with the current model in urban service provision.
2011
In 2010 the World Health Organisation dedicated the Word Health Day to urbanization and health, highlighting the impacts of urban living on physical and mental health. This is because it is increasingly acknowledged that cities face various problems that undermine the quality of urban life, e.g.social inequalities, urban crime, poor environment, and traffic congestion. Despite this fact, cities continue to