Spatial Planning
Year:2015 | Volume:5 | Issue:2 (17) |Papers Count:6

Quality of life (QOL) is a proportional, complicated and multidimensional concept that generalized in terms of notion which relates to all of the aspects of spatial planning (such as economic, social, physical, organizational and environmental features) and the subjective and objective context of life in both individual and plural scales. The system and mechanism of urban planning in Iran is not beneficial with this concept and there is not a sufficient way to apply (QOL) in planning. Although in Esfahan city upgrading the (QOL) has been considered as a goal in the urban planning agendas, it is not clearly detectable in the procedural and substantial aspects of the urban planning and its mechanism. This lake of planning system, affected the following (QOL) upgrading goal in a planning process encounters the (QOL) upgrading goal with limitation that cause the reduction in (QOL) indicators (specially in quality of employment, quality of housing, human resources and social security) during the ten years (2003-2013). This article has triple goals: first) tracing substantial and procedural aspects of Esfahan's urban planning Second) assessing the feasibility of quality of life reporting system (QOLRS)'s implementation, adaptation and application in Esfahan's planning system. Third) discussion on (QOLRS) impacts on Esfahan's planning system in order to upgrading (QOL). In order to attain the triple goal of this paper a descriptive, exploratory and prescriptive process adopted: In the first stage of this process, looks for the what are regarding the theoretical and technical fields of (QOL), (QOL) upgrading and (QOLRS). In second stage assessing the (QOL) in Esfahan by using social survey method basd on Likert scaling and assessing the existence of (QOLRS) and tracing its position in this city will be done. In the third stage of this process, the feasibility of utilization of (QOLRS) in the system and mechanism of urban planning in Esfahan was studied in two substantial and procedural aspects through content analysis of organisational reports and documents of urban plans of Esfahan and also interviewing staff of the city’s organisations. The result of assessments shows that upgrading the (QOL) in Esfahan has direct correlation with devising and formation of (QOLRS) and the mechanism in the agenda of urban planning system. It requires commitments and changes to coordinate the spatial dimensions, substantial and procedural aspects in urban planning system.

Tourism industry has become one of the largest economical activities in the early 21th century and is considered as one of the hugest money making and job creating global industries. One of the most important elements in tourism industry is residential and recreational units. Tourist camps are considered as residential units which has been designed for all kinds of people. Finding an appropriate place for camping depends on the needed space and the ability to be reach the service regions easily and having tourist attractions. The Abyane village is a jewel among the places in the Esfahan province. It is visited by thousands of tourists every year due to its significant attractions. One of the most elementary necessities of this village is the need to strengthen the infrastructures of the tourism. For example, building short time residential camps. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to use the potentials of the Abyaneh village to locate the best place for construction of a camp. The method of this research is descriptive-analytic, and has an applicable use. In this research it has been tried to use the Analytical Hierarchy process (AHP) in GIS to locate the best camping sites. Therefore, the results of layer combination information of the Abyane village in three capable regions are investigated. Eventually, the Alef area, placed at the east side of the village, with 0.53 points has been modified as the best location for establishing a tourist camp.

In this paper we use spatial analysis techniques to assess intra-urban inequality based on Quality of Housing (QoH) indicators in Tehran city. Using district-level data, we apply Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) methods that account for spatial effects, that is, spatial autocorrelation and spatial heterogeneity. Results show that spatial autocorrelation and spatial heterogeneity are detected in the spatial distribution of housing quality in Tehran city, and therefore intra-urban inequalities exist with respect to QoH indicators. The ESDA methods described in this study can be adopted by planners to examine different variables, leading to more reliable results based on statistical tests and revealing, more precisely, locations that require more/less attention.

Designing and planning safe public spaces means creating spaces that enhance safety and safety feeling. While designers and architects place special focus on visibility, lighting, landscaping, and pedestrian traffic in order to detract the fear of crime measures nearly none of them proposed the urban space model to conquer this issue. Third Place as any public place used for informal, voluntary, regular urban life, coined by Oldenburg (1999). It can cause some individual-social benefits for people. One of the best opportunities for this space is social communication. This study attempts to analyze where fear of crime actually means to citizens in the context of urban life evaluated to Third Place over that community.Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this study seeks an urban solution by testing the district of feeling safe and third place range to find out if they are overlapped or not. The model starts by assuming that the fear of crime is related to experienced levels of urban space quality. We proposed a relationship between the cognition maps of feeling safe and quality of urban spaces in a city. Each family interviewed at the first stage was classified according to 5 zones of Esfahan. Totally 385 persons grouped in 130 families (with at least 3 person) were considered by random to name five places of city with the qualities that matched safe feeling, then the collected data turned to the cognition map in order to clarify statues of the five zones. To assess third place, 3 expert urban designers were interviewed to score five zones of Esfahan in order to Third Place criteria. The result through AHP method is the ranking of the zones in order to qualifying Third Place criteria and its map. Analyzing both maps together, the result shows that it is proper to distinguish Third Place criteria and feeling of safety in Esfahan. Moreover there are suggested qualities in detail to improve the safe feeling and reduce the fear of crime.

Today, rural development, close connection with structured processes, such as processes of social -economic, physical and biological environment. On the other hand, one of the most important problems in the field of rural development, problems of structural-functionalis in the settlements. Some of the problems caused by poverty and under development of local and regional, and some is due to environmental problems. One of the solutions in the field of economic and physical development projects such as the Rural hadi Plan. Rural hadi Plan, as most local and most case plan which are linked directly with the rural and rural communities. The rural has been implemented with the aim of enhancing the physical. Present study descriptive method-analytical to assess the effects of Hadi plan the Improve the physical dimensions-space the quality of life of rural settlements has of Zanjan province. in the this context, with use of library research and field, data collection has taken place. Toanalyze the data from the tables of descriptive statistics, T-test, and path analysis were used in the this context the software Spss, Ecxel and ARC GIS also contributed taken. Research in dices based on theoretical studies and field research includes physical–space indicators in the form Land Use, Environment, Transport and Housing. The results show that implementation of hadi plan of physical–space indicator have been improved with an average of4. In this context, implementation of hadi plan, and a positive relationship with user variables with the value t 15.486, environment with 11.573, housing with 7.125, and is transported with 5.234. Also effect of the separameters on the quality of rural life, respectively for estimate the amount the total effect of 0.893Transport, Environmental 0.869, 0.781 housing and user is 0.729.Ruralhadi plan to improve performance revising legislation, revising the Locate optimal health applications, administrative, cultural, pay more attention to the condition of the rural road network and in particular focus on The rural poor housing plan necessary seem.