GEOGRAPHY AND TERRITORIAL SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT
Year:2023 | Volume:13 | Issue:46|Papers Count:8

The current research seeks to develop tourism and its benefits as the result of holding the international street theater festival as a symbol of event-oriented tourism in Marivan city as the tourism hub of Kurdistan province. This festival has been organized with proper quality and credibility and has turned Marivan into the capital of street theater in the country. This is an opportunity that, if you take advantage of it, you can steal the lead from your competitors in today's competitive tourism market and marathon. This research has been done with a descriptive-analytical method, in a qualitative and in-depth manner, and with a comprehensive and systemic view and a collaborative approach that is the specialty of tourism activities studies and management. The required data have been collected, using semi-structured interviews, among several groups of stakeholders and influencers on the artistic accreditation and tourism development of the festival, and finally, the data collected using the fundamental theory technique were analyzed and used during three stages of open, central and selective coding. In this regard challenges and obstacles to benefit from the benefits and development of the festival, tourism was identified at three levels. The first level, which is also the most common and general level related to the weaknesses and challenges of tourism development in general at the level of Marivan city, the second level is related to the development of event-oriented tourism in Marivan city level and finally, the third level is related to the weaknesses and challenges of turning the international street theater festival into an event with tourism efficiency. These findings showed that there is a need to benefit and develop the tourism benefits of the festival, the integrated and systematic management of tourism, training, and professionalization of activists and beneficiaries, and revision in the way of attracting and marketing the tourism sector should be considered along with highlighting and strengthening the artistic sector.

The global population pattern has a growing trend towards aging and it is necessary to ideally plan and design urban spaces, structures and services with the elderly in mind. In this regard, in 2006, the World Health Organization proposed 8 key indicators as the necessities of an elderly-friendly city, which requires the planning and design of cities in line with the realization of these indicators. Considering the importance of realizing agefriendly city in today's era, the purpose of this research is to identify the factors influencing the planning and design of age-friendly city in Tabriz metropolis. The research method in the current study is quantitative with an applied-developmental nature, in order to analyze the data, partial least squares model was used in Warp-PLS software. The statistical population of the research also includes managers, officials and urban experts of Tabriz (about 1500 people) and the sample size is estimated to be 340 people based on the modified model of Cochran. The findings of the research show that the most effective in the realization of age-friendly city in Tabriz is in the planning dimension related to the components of the integrated planning and management system and institutional coordination and participation, and in the design dimension related to the components of the elderly-friendly body and transportation, respectively, the coefficients extracted based on The structural model of the research was 0. 76, 0. 68, 0. 62 and 0. 57 for each. Also, the results indicate that benefiting from inclusive views of urban spaces such as Bankzon's, Goldsmith's, and social design is an inevitable necessity for the realization of age-friendly city in Tabriz.

Climatic phenomena in different regions of the world are different in relation to the geographical characteristics of each region. Dust is one of the dominant atmospheric phenomena in desert and semi-desert regions of the world. This phenomenon is related to air pollution in most parts of Iran with dry climate, including Birjand in eastern Iran. The origin and direction of dust in this area are varied in the year, and knowing them helps urban risk management, forecasting and desertification. In this study, Landsat satellite images were used to determine the origin of dust in the period of 1955-2017. The dust day was defined based on the classification of Shao and Dong with code 06 and 07 with horizontal visibility of less than 10 km, and revealed with BTD and TDI index. To determine dust atmospheric patterns, grid data from NOAA was used, and dust trajectories were carried out with the HYSPLIT model. The results showed that the most dust days in 1963 and 2008 (45 years), with 148 and 128 days, respectively, which mainly occur in the warm season and July. The 120-day winds of Sistan in the east of Iran plays a major role in transporting dust particles and air pollution in Birjand from the east and northeast from the deserts of Central Asia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Khorasan Razavi plains and interior plains. But in the cold period of the year, Siberian cold masses from the east, cold fronts (migrating anticyclone), occluded fronts and low pressures from the northwest, west and southwest by passing through the central plains of Iran and sometimes the deserts of Syria and Iraq causes dust in the upper levels of the atmosphere. In all these centers, the occurrence of particles and pollution of cities prevails during periods of drought.

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between the physical and social space of the city on the feeling of security among the citizens of Qazvini. In order to achieve this goal, first, the theoretical framework of the research was determined according to the appropriateness of the subject under investigation, and then the main hypothesis of the research was extracted from it. The research method in this research is a survey and the data collection tool are a researcher-made questionnaire with validity and reliability. The statistical population of the research is the citizens of Qazvin city. And the sample size of 321 people was obtained by multi-stage cluster method, then using SPSS and Amos software, it was used for hypothesis testing and data analysis. The results of the research indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between the physical and social space of the city and the sense of security. In the regression analysis to explain the dependent variable, among the independent variables, the variable of the residence area had the most effect, and the variable of the physical space of the city, gender, age, social space of the city, number of years of residence and socio-economic base were the most influential. Also, according to the indicators obtained from the Amos software, the collected data supports the proposed theoretical framework.

With the increase of social inequalities in today's cities, social challenges have become the most important issue in stabilizing and one of the biggest housing threats. Among the components of sustainability in urban settlements, the social sustainability of housing is one of the most important concerns of managers and urban decision makers. In the present study, considering the importance of the above variable, the degree of social stability of housing in informal settlements of Ardabil has been evaluated. The city of Ardabil, due to irregular rural-urban migration, has experienced increasing physical and population growth in the last three decades, and this has led to the formation of suburbs around the city to attract additional population, these neighborhoods in the field of social sustainability of housing And there are problems. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the social sustainability of housing in informal settlements in Ardabil. The present study is an applied type and in terms of the nature of the descriptive-analytical method, which is followed by the survey method and questionnaire tools and Gis software to explain the evaluation components. In this study, to analyze, evaluate and rank the studied neighborhoods in terms of social sustainability of housing, multi-criteria decision-making models of TOPSIS, VICOR, SAW and Copeland integration model have been used. According to the findings, the results showed that based on the dimensions analyzed in the evaluation of social sustainability of housing in informal neighborhoods of Ardabil, Iranabad neighborhood (Jane Kennedy) has the highest rate of housing instability and Salmanabad neighborhood has the lowest rate of housing instability compared to other neighborhoods. Are studied in this study.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting urban sprawl and its impact on livelihoods in Ahwaz metropolis. This research is applied-theoretical in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method. The trend of land use changes showed that the amount of built-up area increased, and the area of green and agricultural land uses and so on decreased. The results of Delphi method shows that economic, politicalmanagerial, technological, social-cultural and natural-environmental factors have the most effect on the dispersal of Ahvaz city, respectively. Also, the results of the evaluation of the spillover effects on the biodiversity indices showed that spillover of the urban spill on the increase of the cost of public utilities and consequently the reduction of the quality of services, the weakness of urban service quality monitoring, environmental problems, security decline, public utilities, identity degradation and fragmentation. The landscape has been impressive. According to the results, zones 2 and 3 are very poor in terms of monitoring the quality of urban services and other areas of Ahvaz are in a very poor condition. Zones 2 and 3 of Ahvaz have been in moderate environmental condition, Zones 1 and 4 are low and other zones are very low in terms of livability. In terms of the scattered impact of urban overcrowding on reducing security to four levels of very low viability (areas 5, 6 and 7), low viability (areas 4 and 8), moderate viability (area 1) and high viability (areas 2 and 3) are divided. According to general urban uses, Ahvaz is divided into two categories of low and very low biodiversity, and areas 1, 2 and 3 are better than other areas. In terms of weakening urban identity and landscape, zones 2 and 3 are in the middle range of biodiversity, zone 1 is in the low range of biodiversity and other areas are in the low range of life. In the present study, for the first time, the factors affecting dispersal of the city and its impact on biodiversity are investigated.

Urban laws define power relations to change and reproduce urban spaces. The present article aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of "the law of the endorsement of revitalization, improvement and regeneration of decayed and inefficient urban neighborhoods on the process of urban regeneration in the decayed districts of Hamidia city, Yazd province, Iran, by using statistical methods including the Chi-square test, onesample T-test and path analysis. The results showed all indicators related to urban regeneration are lower than the expected situation because regenerating drivers, including public-private participation, the socio-economic empowerment of residents, the provision of financial resources, tax incentives, building incentives, the allocation of urban infrastructure, urban land supply, the reduction of organizational bureaucracy and the improvement of inter-organizational coordination, do not work efficiently in the study area. The results of the one-sample T-test indicated that the above drivers have a significant distance from the expected conditions. According to the path analysis, the variables of socio-economic empowerment of residents, the allocation of urban infrastructure and the provision of financial resources have the most positive and overall effect on the urban regeneration of the decayed districts, respectively. Variables of the organizational bureaucracy, inter-organizational coordination and urban land supply have the most negative and overall effects, respectively. The ineffectiveness of urban regeneration law in Hamida city may result from its holistic and comprehensive approach. In urban environments like Hamida city with low diversity and low desirability of socio-economic-physical potentials, this approach can reduce the capacity of urban planners and managers to mobilize socio-economic and spatial resources to revitalize decayed districts.

There has been a lot of discussion on the municipality's financial bottlenecks, and many researchers suggest that it should have a stable income. However, the municipality is a service institution and has to pay for its services from the Citizens who benefit from these services. Therefore, if the municipality is unable or unwilling to receive these costs, there must be a flaw in the institution's policies or functions. Hence, this study examines the hypothesis of the existence of the policy and the functional status of the municipality. The study has used a descriptive and analytical method to collect the required data from 150 experts in the field of urban planning. The collected data were analyzed using a one-sample t-test, Friedman test, as well as confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equations based on variance using the ordinary least squares (PLS) method. The results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between the function and quality of the developed policies, as well as the capability and performance indicators of Mashhad Municipality. But because the quality and functionality of the designed policies are not at the appropriate level, the capability and functionality indicators have a fundamental weakness. The same factor influences the municipality's failure to pay for the services provided to the Citizens. The Citizens consider this institution not a service but a governing organization.