Evaluating the quality of life in the suburban context based on the environmental indicators of a case study (southwest elevations of Mashhad city)
Subject Areas : Creative City Design
Alireza Omurisarabi
1
,
Toktam Hanaee
2
1 - M.A of Urban Planning, Deparment of Urbanism, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.
2 - Associate professor, Deparment of Urbanism, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.
Keywords: suburban context, quality of life, southwest elevations of Mashhad city, environmental indicators,
Abstract :
In recent years, the concept of quality of life has attracted the attention of many urban planners and managers, as nowadays a low quality of life is observed in many cities in Iran, especially in the suburbs. Sociologists explain the definition of people living on the periphery of cities as follows: Peripheral residents generally include those who live in the city but do not use the city's facilities and services as citizens. Although these people live in the heart or on the outskirts of the city, they retain their rural culture while considering themselves city dwellers. Quality of life is one of the most fundamental areas of urban research around the world and includes components such as social, environmental and economic. The category of quality of life is of great importance, especially in marginalized communities living in unstable physical and environmental conditions due to lack of facilities, economic poverty and many constraints on the outskirts of big cities. Since the quality of life is closely related to the environment and people's lives, and the deterioration of environmental quality directly affects the quality of life, this study aims to assess the quality of life through environmental indicators in the marginalized areas in the south-western highlands of Mashhad and make suggestions to improve the quality of life in this marginal neighborhood near the metropolis of Mashhad by assessing the influential indicators in the environmental system. It is an applied survey research and a quantitative and documentary research method. The research data is collected through field methods (observation and questionnaire) and the analysis of the questionnaire, factor analysis and single sample T which were used in SPSS software environment. It should be noted that the research strategies were formulated based on the matrix of internal and external factors. The results show that conservative strategies are the best alternative to improve the quality of life in worn-out marginalized areas, because the application of these strategies protects the marginalized community from risky situations, so the greatest strengths are in the area of maximum efficiency.