Evaluation the Sustainability of Urban Neighborhoods Based on HDI and Morris Area Technique A Case study: Malayer City

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Seyyed Davood Mousavi ¹ , Asghar Nazarian ² , Usefali Ziari ³ , Masoud Mahdavi ⁴

1 - Ph.D student, Azad Islamic University of Tehran(science and researching branch),Geography Department,Tehran,Iran
2 - Ph.D, Professor, Azad Islamic University of Tehran (science and researching branch),Geography Department, Tehran, Iran
3 - Ph.D, Associate Professor, Azad Islamic University of Tehran (science and researching branch),Geography Department,Tehran,Iran
4 - Associate PhD, science department member, Azad Islamic University of Tehran (science and researching branch), geography department,Tehran,Iran

Received: 2013-08-19 Accepted : 2014-06-13 Published : 2014-09-21

Keywords: Sustainable Development, Malayer, urban neighborhood sustainability, HID, Morris Coefficient,

Abstract :

The sustainability of cities, especially in the 21st century, has been studied seriously and widely by scientific associations and international organizations. The purpose of this article is evaluation and determination of 23 neighborhoods in Malayer based on improvement index on this justification that  sustainability in any parts of the city can be a background of sustainability for all cities. In order to evaluate and estimate the sustainability of Malayer neighborhoods, unbalance analysis and prediction of the improvement priorities, as well as some quantity models and statistic software have been used  such as: Morris development index,  standard score, changing coefficient and agent analysis based on 58 variations according to social, economic, environmental  and somatic indexes. The case study techniques in this project are combinations of analysis and field studies. The type of study is functional improvement and the range of study is across the 23 parts of Malayer with 159848 population and a 2280 hectare area. The findings and results of this research according to integrative indexes (social, economic, environmental, somatic) have shown a tremendous difference in sustainability coefficient among different neighborhood of city. surprisingly, only 7 neighborhoods out of the 23 neighborhoods (less than one third) are in the sustainability situation and are in %71_1 range and other neighborhoods are  in half sustainability situation with %41_ %70 range. Yet,other neighborhoods are in unsustainable situation with the rang of 0_0/40. Furthermore, there is a huge difference among different parts of the city according to the human development index (HDI) which is  based on economic indexes of  MAX and MIN (MAX_MIN :153.5). It was observed to be so critical and was observed smaller in the environmental index (MAX_MIN :87.88). Therefore,  the Park Neighborhood  was found having the most score of index combination with 314 in first place and is the most sustainable neighborhood then Naftsiah with 189 score is in 23hd place and the most unsustainable neighborhood. The analysis and results of this study show the tremendous difference, between the most sustainable and least sustainable neighborhoods of the city base on the  development indexes.