Evaluating subjective quality of urban housing based on inner and outer domains (Case Study: Bushehr City)
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Fatholah Akbarianfar
1
(
M.A in Geography and Urban Planning, Instructor of Payam-e-noor University, khormouj branch, Bushehr , Iran.
)
Zohreh Hadiany
2
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Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Geography and Urban Planning, University of Sistanand and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
)
Jahangir Heydari
3
(
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran.
)
Keywords: Bushehr, Subjective quality, Inner and outer domain, Urban Housing,
Abstract :
Examining living conditions in urban housing is necessary to maintain sustainable management of the cities. This research tries to survey the house of Bushehr citizens in both the inner and outer domains and provide solutions in this area. The Research Method in this paper is descriptive-analytical. Data was collected by a survey of 255 households with 5-point Likert scale entered in SPSS software version20. Nonparametric tests of Binomial and Spearman correlation were used to better understand the situation of domains affecting the quality of urban housing. The results indicate that in13 studied components of the two domains; just the qualities of the four components are unfavorable from the viewpoint of citizens and overall, 53% of residents are satisfied with the quality of their housing. It is recommended that according to priority, the quality of the road network, water, gas and recreational facility should be scheduled on the agenda to enhance the quality of Bushehrurban housing and then improvement of the other component of housing quality should be considered. Spearman correlation test results also shows a relationship between age and educational level of residents with some of the dependent variables in both the inner and outer domains. Therefore, it should not be ignored that the individual characteristics of citizens in the urban housing studies and projects are important.
