Evaluation quality of urban life in old and new Neighborhoods of Urmia

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

sahand aghazadeh moghaddam ¹ , mahin nastaran ² , ghader ahmadi ³

1 - دانش آموخته دانشگاه هنر اصفهان
2 - University of Arts Isfahan
3 - University Urmia

Received: 2015-01-14 Accepted : 2015-11-29 Published : 2007-12-22

Keywords: Urmia, Quality of urban life, Old neighborhoods, New neighborhoods,

Abstract :

This study aimed to evaluating the quality of urban life in old and new neighborhoods of Urmia. From research Methodology view point of this research is practical and the method is descriptive – analytical. In this study Initial necessary data of mental approach, has been collected by using a questionnaire based on Likert scale rating. Statistical Society of the study, All heads of households in old and new neighborhoods in Urmia city that Using simple random sampling method based on the relationship Cochrane was elected 331 headed households of four neighborhoods, two neighborhood (Haft asyab and Yonjehzar) of old neighborhoods and two neighborhoods (kouyekeshavarz and Zaminshari) of new neighborhoods. To achieve the goals of the study and testing the hypotheses, descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, univariate regression and multiple regression, non-parametric tests of U Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis were used. All analyses were performed by SPSS software. The results showed, from four factors that identified as subjective dimensions, the quality of economical aspects, from dwelling ideas the respondents living in the old and new areas studied was the most effect on quality of Mental . The results of calculating the overall quality of urban life showed that the respondents residing in the new areas have better conditions and greater satisfaction with an average of 3.59 in comparison to the residents of the old areas with an average of 2.753.