Analysis and evaluation of social-economic criteria and their effects on the quality of slum neighborhood houses: Case study, Sheikh Abad neighborhood in Qom city

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

mehdi Gharakhlo ¹ , ali mehdi ² , masoomeh mahdian ³

1 - دانشیار دانشکده جغرافیا،دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
2 - دانش آموخته کارشناسی ارشد جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
3 - دانش آموخته کارشناسی ارشد جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه گلستان،گلستان، ایران

Received: 2011-01-18 Accepted : 2012-06-14 Published : 2012-05-21

Keywords: Housing, slumming, social-economical criteria, life health, Sheikh Abad neighborhood, Qom City,

Abstract :

Housing is one of the most important sectors of development in a society that with wide economical, social, bioenvironmental and body aspects has wide range of effects on providing health and face of community. Meanwhile, what has direct effect on the quality and quantity of housing is the economical-social features that will be a real reflection of the quality and comfort of people’s life. But today with the growth of population and development of citizenship, major problems such as the appearance of slums that are world symbols in recognizing that face and unsuitable houses have become the problem of many cities especially in developing countries. The major shortages that these days these neighborhoods in different social, body, health and especially economical are facing have caused that the houses of the residents of these neighborhoods, which should be the sanctuary, shelter, personal space and a place for relaxing for a man, are in unsuitable conditions. Therefore, the writers of the present paper, with the knowledge of the importance of the concept of slumming, housing quality, life health and,…and with the study of the theoretical ideas related to the research subject and complete field studies, analyses the social – economical features and their effects on the quality of housing in Sheikh Abad neighborhood in Qom as one of the million-populated and migration destination cities in Iran that faces the problem of slums. The research method is descriptive-analytical and data gathering was based on library studies and field studies(distribution of 310 questioners among residents by using Cokeran method). Also, to analyse the gathered data from the field studies, the spss software, and to analyse and prove a relation and correlation between variables the (Chi-Square) and (Man-Wietny) tests were used.  The result of the present paper show that the houses in the neighborhood have a very unsuitable quality because of weak social-cultural, especially economical structures of the residents that finally lead to decrease of life level, comfort and security of the residents in Sheikh Abad neighborhood.