Assess the quality of urban environment in new towns according to people satisfaction (case study city of Alvand in Qazvin province)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

E. sami ¹ , S. falahpour ² , A.A. jafarlo ³

1 - assistant professor of geography and urban planning group, University of maragheh maragheh, Iran
2 - M.A., Geography and Urban Planning, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran
3 - M.A., Geography and Urban Planning, unit PNU, Buin Zahra, Iran

Received: 2016-10-07 Accepted : 2017-05-18 Published : 2017-05-22

Keywords: quality of urban environment, new towns, people satisfaction, Town Alvand,

Abstract :

city of human biology bed and actually forming human life style and determine the quality of life and his satisfaction. improve the quality of life of it is important that can be other fields , such as the development of the development of social, economic, and robbed by the service. for improving the quality of life in any society, one of the most important goals of public policies that society. By the same token , with the aim of the present study measure of the quality of the urban environment with regard to the satisfaction of the people. work in this descriptive and analytical - based on regression correlation statistical methods. collecting information on the basis of a library field observations questionnaire and complete. with the formula of Cochrane sample volume 110 number per person a number of statistical of 88000 city of Alvand and selected at random and then to analyse the variables study, which included housing units, factors anatomical, functional, cultural and social welfare, natural, and service spss software was used. The results indicate that the level of satisfaction with variable factors and welfare services have the greatest positive impact on satisfaction Alvand city (467/0) and variable natural factors (123/0), the city's residents, the lowest satisfaction. Given the low to the satisfaction of natural factors, in the affairs of urban construction and use of materials and how proofing and angle and to build with regard to the temperature and the sun, the participation of most of the engineers.

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