Evaluation of Urban Defenseless Spaces Using Safety Audit (Case Study: Tehran Harandi Neighborhood)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Hossein Farhdikhah ¹ (Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Urban Planing, Universuty of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Keramatollah Zyari ² (Professore, Dep. Of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Mohsen Kalantari ³ (Associate Professor, Dep. of Geography, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran)

Received: 2017-01-30 Accepted : 2018-05-28 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: Defenseless Spaces, Safety Audit, Harandi neighborhood,

Abstract :

security and sense of it in cities is one of the most important needs of the citizens that the reduction or lack of them affect heavily on the quality of life of citizens and their use of urban spaces, particularly urban public spaces is negatively affected. Meanwhile, existence of defenseless spaces in a neighborhood is among the main factors that reduce security for citizens. This issue in worn and old urban areas, according to their physical and social condition, is more obvious. The aim of this study is investigating urban defenseless spaces in Harandi neighborhood. This study is among applied one and research method is descriptive and analytical and data collecting is done by documents - field. In field section, direct observation and a questionnaire in chart of model safety assessment examine the issue. For data analysis SPSS software is used. Cronbach Alpha for the questionnaire is designed 0/896 (more than 0/7). The results show that safety space through the neighborhood is inadequate (mean =0/238). The results also indicates that among the studied indicators, the presence of people in space (private space or too much congestion) has the greatest impact on defenseless neighborhood spaces (B=0/237). Finally, to improve making safety of spaces defenseless in neighborhood level solutions are presented.

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