Analysis of the situation structural and functional indices for measuring the urbanization quality in the small Cities (case study: Nour-Abade Mamasani)

Subject Areas : Regional Planning

mohamadali firozi ¹ , nahid sajadiyan ² , mamreza amiri falyani ³ , samira moradi ⁴ , majid boostani ⁵

1 - دانشیار گروه جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز، اهواز، ایران
2 - دانشیار گروه جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز، اهواز، ایران
3 - دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز، اهواز، ایران
4 - دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز، اهواز، ایران
5 - کارشناس ارشد شهرسازی، واحد یاسوج، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، یاسوج، ایران

Received: 2016-07-10 Accepted : 2016-12-16 Published : 2016-11-21

Keywords: : Situational Analysis, Urbanization quality, Structure and function analysis, Nour-Abade Mammasani,

Abstract :

Urbanization quality refers to the situation urban households, urban lifestyle and interior space cities. Due to the inherent complexity of cities and various aspects of their impact, identifying key factors in achieving urban sustainability seems necessary. In this regard, the urban dwellers satisfaction of the present status according to the desires and needs can lead to the sustainability of cities, especially social sustainability. The aim of this study is to evaluate the urbanization quality based on an analysis of the structure and function of the urban system. This descriptive-analytical study is applied research. The statistical population of this study is all city residents being randomly selected who are 350 people that questionnaires were distributed among them. Research findings by TOPSIS and SPSS were analyzed to determine the quality of urbanization in the Nour abad city. Results indicate that citizens have the highest satisfaction index of social security function and quality of medical facilities and services. In the achieved social security function, the highest rank belongs to the satisfaction of police accountability rated 0.693 and satisfaction of medical facilities rated 0.517. But, the least satisfaction was allocated to productive function that, in this function, employment in industrial production satisfaction is placed in low ranking score 453/0. Also, the results show that the highest correlation are established between satisfaction and productive function relative to other indicators. Finally, based on the research findings, there have been strategies for improving the quality of urbanization in the nourabad city.

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