Measuring and evaluating the dimensions of urban vitality in District 10 of Mashhad metropolis

Subject Areas : The geography of inequality

majid akbari ¹ , zahra montazeri ² , مرضیه طالشی انبوهی ³

1 - دانشگاه پیام نور
2 - mscPhD student, Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Isfahan University of Art, Isfahan, Iran
3 - کارشناسی ارشد جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی شهری دانشگاه گیلان

Received: 2023-09-26 Accepted : 2023-09-28 Published : 2023-10-23

Keywords: Vitality, livability, urban spaces, district 10 of Mashhad metropolis,

Abstract :

Statement of the problem: Vitality is one of the most important constructive qualities of urban spaces for improving the quality of urban spaces and creating a place, and the decline of life and vitality in urban areas can be seen as one of the results of following the modernist point of view, which is always in favor of quantity. It has been biased and has ignored qualitative issues. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the level of vitality in the three areas of District 10 of Mashhad. The current research is applied in terms of targeting and its method is descriptive-analytical, and a researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. The statistical population of the research was the residents of the 10th district of Mashhad and the random sampling method was simple. To analyze the information obtained from sample t-tech tests, one-way variance test and Friedman test were used in Spss software. The vitality of city spaces also includes concepts such as justice, efficiency, adaptability, flexibility, environmental quality, which will eventually lead to livability if the vitality of the city is sustainable. The results of the research showed that physical dimensions with an average of 3.3527, social with an average of 3.3350, infrastructure with an average of 3.3112, and economic with an average of 3.1111 are respectively the highest and lowest in the 10th region of Mashhad metropolis. They are worth it. The averages of economic, social, infrastructure and physical dimensions in the three municipal districts of Region 10 are not equal and have a significant difference, so that in terms of physical, economic and social dimensions, first District 1 then District 2 has a higher average difference than District 3. have. But in terms of infrastructure, District 2 is far better than other districts. So that the physical dimension of area 2 is about 0.13 more than area 1 and about 0.7 more than area 3. In general, the vitality of zone 10 is medium to high.

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