JOURNAL OF URBAN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
Year:2020 | Volume:7 | Issue:22|Papers Count:7

In the new urban and community management system, the neighborhoods’ residents did not have much influence on the affairs of the neighborhoods, and this quickly created a sense of lack of identity, indifference, disinclination, finally, unwillingness in them. The present study attempts to study the urban managers’ productions by modeling the Islamic and religious society and based on the final consumers’ (residents) viewpoints. In addition, the study is to develop appropriate strategies for reaching the desired neighborhood in the Iranian-Islamic city. The research method is "applied" based on the purpose of the study, “ descriptive” based on the research method, and "survey and field research" based on how the data are collected. The sample size is calculated using the Cochran formula and with regard to the maximum heterogeneity hypothesis as 380 participants. The present study was done in the primary and traditional six districts of Ardabil City. The data collection instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire prepared (Research dimensions include i. e. physical, cultural and social, economic and environmental dimensions with more than 100 questions) by basing the theoretical foundation and library studies. The SPSS software program was employed for statistical analyzes and to compare the desired urban neighborhoods of fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making was used. Based on field studies and surveys, the neighborhoods of Ardabil (especially in the studied areas) are distant from their ideal situation in an Iranian-Islamic city, and in different dimensions there are some deficiencies that can be observed and enforced Some strategies and principles are achievable...

Location and allocation analysis is one of the most important network and useful analyzes in GIS. This analysis involves various models that, each model is used to solve various problems. Recently, a new model called VAOMP (Vector Assignment Ordered Median Problem) has been developed that, it can solve many different problems. Given that, the location and allocation problems are very difficult, it is almost impossible to solve them in exact methods. Therefore, the present research intends to solve the allocation problem of the population to existing fire stations. The VAOMP model and the Genetic and Simulated Annealing algorithms with three goals such as minimizing the arrival time to demands, minimizing distance and maximizing the coverage of each station, solved the problem. The results of this research showed that the Genetic algorithm produces more qualitative solutions in shorter time, while 10 stations in the 21st and 22nd districts of Tehran are not sufficient to serve the total demands in the study area and 55240 people without services will remain and at least, 13 stations in the region should be created...

Since 2008 a half of the world population has lived in urban areas. One of the most important aspects of this change is the increase of urban poor population, particularly in developing countries. With the expansion of this phenomenon, we face the process of ' urbanization of poverty'. To understand the factors, process, and outcomes of urban poverty, much research has been conducted in Iran in the last forty years. In the present paper, we attempted to examine the Iranian researchers ' studies on the topic of urban poverty, using the meta-analysis and systematic review. The research results demonstrated that much of the research in the poverty field is done in economics. From the methodology point of view, in Iran quantitative paradigm is the dominant paradigm and urban poverty has been examined from the angle of statistics, number, map, and table as well. Therefore, no one has focused on the voices, narratives, life experiences, and the representations of the process of urban poverty by the poor. Furthermore, the results revealed that the poorer the provinces are, the less research has been done in those areas. In addition, the studies on poverty in Iran have examined this phenomenon from the angle of the structure and not from the angles of agent and action. It is also important to note that the lack of research on poverty amongst children, women, disabled people, and ethnic groups is obvious...

Today, one of the most important hazards that always threatens cities is the risk of an earthquake. Therefore, the city of Izea will remain like many cities, taking into account several acute faults, including areas susceptible to the dangers of an earthquake that will sooner or later lead to such a challenge. Therefore, reduction of damage and crisis management and ultimately resilience of cities to such hazards as earthquakes are necessary and therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate the degree of physical and social resilience of Izeh city against earthquakes. The present study is descriptive-analytic in terms of its nature, theoretical-practical and, as far as the study method is concerned. In order to achieve the research results, in addition to the library method and the use of statistics and documents, the field method has been used based on a researcher-made questionnaire (in Likert scale). The sample size was determined using Cochran method and the sampling method was carried out using simple random sampling without substitution. To analyze the data, Fuzzy Hierarchy Analysis (AHP FUZZY), GIS, SPSS and Promethee Decision Making Model were used in this study To measure physical dimension, 8 indicators were used. The results of the physical dimension showed that the situation of Izeh city is low against possible earthquake occurrence. The results of social dimension also showed that the central region with a value of 0. 667 and western region with 0. 50 in the first and second places, northern and northern areas with a net flow of 0. 333 in the third place and in the eastern region The net amount of 500/0 is at the last place; Therefore, it can be said that there is a difference between the areas of Izeh city in terms of social resilience...

Social sustainability is one of the main pillars of sustainable development and one of the key tools in urban planning and policy making. Lack of attention to social sustainability, endangers various development programs and projects, as well as causing irreparable damage to neighborhoods and their inhabitants. Due to the importance of social dimension of sustainability, the present study aimed to investigate social sustainability in Mehregan Town of Mashhad. This study was applied in term of its purpose and it’ s based on the survey method. In this method a questionnaire was used which its validity was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha test (0. 79). The statistical population consisted of inhabitants of Mehregan Town (16745) and the sample size was determined 375. Friedman test and T-Hoteling test were used for data analysis and path analysis was used to represent the conceptual model. Respectively, social capital, housing satisfaction and spatial equality had the most effect and in the next priority sense of belonging, social participation and identity had less effect on social sustainability of Mehregan Town, according to the results of Friedman test, t-hoteling and path analysis. Also the results of Friedman and T-Hotelling tests show that three indices of sense of belonging, social participation and identity are lower than the mean and three indices of social capital, housing satisfaction and spatial equality are higher than the mean. In general, social sustainability is not desirable in the area of study...

Increasing urban population growth calls for urban management preparedness to deal with natural disasters and improving resilience, especially in the housing sector. This study seeks to identify most influential indicators and most possible scenarios in the future resilience of cities. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytic methodologically, in which the method of information collecting is library documents reviewing. That way, effective indicators in the field of housing resilience future studying have been identified and analyzed with Micmac software package and Delphi (technique questionnaire completed by 40 resilience and future studies experts). The factors-as the main factors of scenario making-have entered into the ScenarioWizard software package. The process of changing each of these factors in the field of the future study of housing resilience has been evaluated by using the Delphi technique and panel of experts. The ScenarioWizard works based on the cross-impact analysis. The results indicate that the indexes (1) land price, (2) private ownership, (3) building height and (4) land use distribution will have the greatest impact in the future of housing resilience in the District 8 of Isfahan. These factors have been entered into ScenarioWizard as the main factors and the changing process of each of these factors in the housing future study field has been evaluated. The results of the ScenarioWizard identify seven possible scenarios in this area. In the most probable scenario for the future, factors “ prices” , “ ownership” and “ buildings height” will increase but “ land use” will remain unchanged. From those increasing factors, all have relative in improving resilience except "building height". Accordingly, housing resilience situation in District 8 of Isfahan will increase (improve) in the future...

Over the past few decades, social solidarity has been highlighted in many urban policy programs. Social solidarity reflects the values, goals and common expectations between citizens. It also seems that some historic areas have become distressed parts of the city, in such a way that the risk of reducing social and moral solidarity has become a threat to health and sustainable development in the cities. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to recognize the effective dimensions of promoting social solidarity in Behbahani neighborhood of Bushehr as a distressed historical area. The research method of this study was descriptive-analytical and survey. The questionnaire was used as a data collection tool, SPSS and AMOS software as a tool for data analysis and evaluation, and the structural model of confirmatory factor analysis, was used as a data analysis method. The statistical population of this study was all over 15-year-old residents of Behbahani neighborhood of Bushehr. The sample size of the study, 298 people, was calculated and selected through the Cochran formula. The sample size of the study was 298 people who were calculated and selected by the Cochran formula. The Cronbach's alpha value of the questionnaire was 0. 92. The results of this research showed that the common interests with correlation of 0. 88, social satisfaction with correlation of 0. 86, social order and control with correlation of 0. 86, social relations with correlation of 0. 79 and social identity with correlation of 0. 77 affects the level of social solidarity in distressed historical areas...