Journal of Urban Research and Planning
Year:2010 | Volume:1 | Issue:2|Papers Count:7

City as a place of living of human beings requires providing standards which could be called standards of life quality. In fact, quality of life is a multi-dimensional and complex concept which has been introduced and researched by think of civic sciences as well as other scientists. There are different methods in different geographical levels to measure quality of life one of which is Human Development Index. This research attempts to study. The different urban areas of the country on the basis of the defined indices in relation to the quality of life. The methodology of the research is based on the descriptive and analytical methods and the data collection has been done via documentary checking. The studied sample includes 253 urban areas. The data and information are obtained from the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) to analyze the different aspects of the quality of life. The process of computation is based on the pattern of Morris. The results reveal that the urban areas of Iran suffers from wide gap regarding the indices of the quality of life. From the total 253 studied cities only 24 (9.5%) city show privileged condition while about 50 percent of the studied areas are considered as deprived areas. Also the capital city of Tehran as a heterogeneous area has seperated itself from other urban areas.

One of the problems of new towns is the urban identity in those towns. Paying little attention to the damnations and factors of leads to the formation of artificial environments which are void of human identity. This results in low sense of place connection, solidarity and social cooperation, decrease in the motivation of the residents to continue residency and effect on non- realization of population objectives. Therefore, recognition of the identity-related components of new towns, investigating any new town in terms of enjoyment of these factors, analysis of the relationship between factors of urban identity and the amount of place belonging of residents, knowing the strengths and weaknesses in this regard can assist us to solve many problems arising from lack of identity in these towns. Therefore, in this context, this study is conducted in the new town of Glbahar with sample size of 760 people. The research methodology is descriptive - analytical and the data collected by questionnaire have been analyzed and described using SPSS and statistical methods such as frequency, nonparametric test chi- squre, coefficients relationship of two ordinal variable, Spearman correlation coefficient with the correlation plot. The results indicate that the amount of urban identity components in Golbahar city is 91.3 persent is very low to moderate. Also, test of the first hypothesis as “ it looks that residence time and palce connection of residents are related ” shows that based on the Gamma coefficient about 15 percent of the independent variable place connection is explained by the dependent variable residence time. The results of testing the second hypothesis which evaluates the correlation between two variables, components of urban identity and place connection of residents, indicate the rejection of null hypothesis and the proving the opposite hypothesis. Correlation coefficient of 0.365 shows moderate and direct correlation between two variables.

Evidences show that urban stability has gained high consideration at the international level but it is not been fully paid attention to in Iran. The level of urban stability may could indicate the qulity of life in urban places. Investigation of the quarters conditions and the problems of their development as well as the stable development of cities are the problems which have recently set forth in civic management but have not been death with in our country. So this paper attempts to investigate and determine the level of stability in the sixteen quarters of Babolsar. Babolsar from the point of view possessing the development in likes. In order to measure the stability levels of the quarters, analyze the inequalities and predicting development priority, The quantities models and statistical techniques such as HDI, standaredized score, factor analysis, and combined multiple regressions (Enter) are used, selecting 30 variables of social, economical foundational and biological indices. The results from integrated indexes reveal that there are variations in the level of stabilities among the defend quarters. So that, from sixteen quarters on of them is placed in the category of ideal stable, two are placed in the category of strong stable, and Seven of them in semi-stable; four quarters are weakly stable and two are at unstable level. Also the results shows that exists a there marked disparity with respect to the social and environmental indexes (0.98%) and a lesser variation in foundation indices (0.32%). It can be concluded the urban authority needs to direct their policies towards those quarters which are less developed to fill the exsisting gap among the different areas to reach social equality and promoting the level of quality of life.

This research deals with spatial analysis of the distribution of the services and population dispersion in urban sectors of Meybod. The methodology of this research is descriptive – analytic. That uses Ant ropy coefficient, standardized values and Taxonomy. The sample in clouds 11 sectors of Meybod. The population of Meybod in 1976 was 17848 people that which the growth rate of 4.05% has increased to 58872 people in 2006, but with respect to the distribution and enjoyment of civil services, there has not been proportional growth. The correlation coefficient between sector area and standardized scores is -.0248. so there is a meaningful reverse relation between the expansion of sectors area and standardized scores, the expansion of the area has no role in the optimal distribution of the civil services. Also, Pearson correlation, coefficient between the population density of city sectors and z. scores shows that there is a weak relation between the distribution of the services and the population density. Because the sector obtained is 0.524 and the level of significant is 0.094 which has a big difference from the level of significance of 95.8 percent and it shows that the relation between the two variables is weak. Therefore, there is no relation between population dispersion and the distribution of the services in urban sectors of Meybod. The results gained from the integration of the models shows that 2-1-1 and 2-2-1 sectors are some how balanced with regard to the distribution of the services and 1-1-2, 1-1-1 and 1-2-1 sectors are imbalanced. Therefore, with balanced and proportional Distribution of the services based on population need in Meybod sector we can achieve a balance in Meybod sector in future. So in order to reach stability, a logical and coordinate relation between population dispersion and the distribution of the services in urban sectors of Meybod is essential.

Actualization of tourism as a need, turning to largest service industry and specialization of that, makes any destinations hopeful to get benefit from tourism. Of course, without identifying of influential factors and strategic planning and management, doing that will not be possible. So, regard to Kurdistan tourism positional (1234 attractions, ecotourism and shopping tourism positional), at this study we try to probe the pathology of tourism development in Kurdistan. For examine of relationship among hospitality culture, marketing, experienced labor, infrastructure and undeveloped of tourism in Kurdistan, based on Likert, tow spread questionnaire designed for our sample (322 tourists and 63 experts). In addition, for identifying of Kurdistan’s tourism strengths, weakness, opportunities and treats, SWOT model were been applied. The result indicated that hospitality culture did not has negative impacts on tourism development, but, relation among weakness of marketing activities, experienced labor, lack of enough infrastructure and undeveloped of Kurdistan’s tourism, were been approved. In another hand, according to SWOT, Weakness of marketing activities, efficient management and lack of enough infrastructures, known as an most important weakness. Also, attractive natural attractions, shopping tourism and public wiliness to development of tourism with weight of 48%, 38% and 28%, identified as best strength points. Likewise, growth of shopping and ecotourism and merit of Kurdistan in both of them and close cultural relationship with Kurdistan of Iraq and their wiliness to visit of Kurdistan, in order with weight of 50%, 50% and 30% and likely increasegni of fuel prices due to purposivism of subsides, increase of demand for out- bound tourism and decaying of local culture, in view of experts, introduced as a most important opportunities and treats.

Climate architecture is a field of knowledge that makes it possible to use climate elements in principled planning of buildings. In order to reach the aims of this research, a 24-year-old statistical period (1985-2009) of the synoptic station city of Lali in an analytical-descriptive manner, and lalis building are studied based on experimental methods such as (Olgyay bioclimatic), in order to determine the range of warmth comfort round the clock. The most important elements of climate affecting Lali are known to be light, sunny hours temperature, and wind. Warmth comfort in Lali is reasonable during most of the nights, but in days warmth comfort is not suitable during most of the months. The most optimized direction of buildings is north-southward with east-west grading and with a yard built in a compact architecture. The space between the buildings is better to be more compact. Small sizes of windows are more suitable and the area of which is better be 1.5 to 5.5 percent of the area of the relevant facade. Windows are not of essence in the internal space in case of creation of draught. Buildings can be one-sided, that is they can connect to the outer space through only one side. Since during 5 months of the year the weather is fine an outside area should be considered to be used during nights or whenever the weather is nice outside the building. The inside and outside walls and roofs should be built from hevey materials in order for the delay time of the materials to be longer the 8 hours.

This article examines the system of population distribution in urban centers in Fars Province during the period of 1335_1385. Growing trend of urbanization along with the increase in the number of towns and cities, especially those whose population is under 25,000. the most important characteristics of the system distribution of is the urban population in Fars Province. The trend of urbanization in Fars province during a period of 50 years follows from the current trend in the total population changes of the country. In 1335 only 32/35 percent of the province population live in the urban areas and it has reached to 61.17 percent in the last census of 1385. Regarding the increase in urban areas, the number of cities of the province which has been 13 cities in 1335 has also reached to 73 cities in 1345. Among these cities shiraz, due to the political - historical situation and its economic capabilities has always attracted the population and during the five recent decades has operated as the first city of the province. It has allocated 46.3 percent of the province population to itself and its population is 9.87 tines that of second population city Marvdasht in 1385 and shows the unbalanced spatial distribution of the urban population in fars province.