Evaluating the level of realization of spatial justice with an emphasis on the approach of the right to the health of the city (Case study: Urmia city)

Subject Areas : Urban Futurology

Ali  Samadi ¹ (Department of Urbanism, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Reza  Ahmadian ² (Department of Urbanism, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Alireza  Bandarabad ³ (Department of Urbanism, Central Tehran Branch. Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2023-03-01 Accepted : 2023-04-02 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: city, Urmia, Spatial justice, Urban Health, right to the city,

Abstract :

With the rapid expansion of urbanization in the world and the need to pay attention to the performance of the management of these urban systems, the study of urban life and the methods of its residents' access to citizenship rights. Urban health, as one of the important factors in human life, is considered a part of these rights. by checking the situation of Urmia from the perspective of the level of achieving spatial justice in the field of urban health indicators, tries to measure the status of the right approach. The methods of information gathering are based on library-documentary data and methods of observation, interview and field verification of the study environment based on the level of distribution of functions in the field of urban health, Urmia has not acted in a fair manner in terms of the distribution of health-treatment functions and services in accordance with the approach of the right to the city, in spatial planning and allocation. In this regard, the components of the qualitative levels of people's mental and emotional states in the aspect of the urban health system and the level of desirability of having appropriate urban furniture in the physical-physical dimension, respectively, in the most suitable or best and most unsuitable or worst environmental conditions and conditions is placed The components of access and availability in the field of public and sustainable transportation and having a variety of uses in the city have the highest level of solidarity and coherence with the approach of the right to urban health. Also, the component of having the desired household income has the lowest level of correlation, interaction and cohesion with the approach of promoting the right to health in the urban society of Urmia, in order to improve the conditions, some effective suggestions have been made.