The ability to make smart neighborhoods in the city of Babolsar

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Maryam Pourali ¹ , Raheleh rostami ^{2 *} , Zahra Sharifi Nia ³

1 - Department of Architecture, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
2 - Department of Architecture, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
3 - Department of Geography and Tourism Planning, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

Received: 2024-05-10 Accepted : 2025-08-15 Published : 2026-06-22

Keywords: Sustainability, sustainable urban areas, urban smartness capability, Babolsar,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research is the ability to smarten the sustainable neighborhoods of Babolsar city. The type of applied research and the method used is descriptive-analytical and library and field methods (questionnaire) have been used to collect data and information. The statistical population of this research includes experts, for whom 10 sample According to the data of the United Nations World Bank in 2020, it was estimated that 4.27 billion people live in cities. which constitutes more than 55% of the world's population. In the next 30 years, another 2.4 billion people will probably be added to the world's urban population, which means that the percentage of people living in cities will reach 66% in 2050. Therefore, the increase of urban population and the changes and transformations of cities is one of the basic issues in the countries of the world, which is associated with the complex process of urbanization. The growth of urbanization has been mentioned as a driver of development, which provides the most favorable conditions for technological innovations and educational, cultural and social achievements in the sustainability of urban areas. questionnaires have been distributed in the neighborhoods of Babolsar city. Descriptive (mean) and inferential (variance analysis) and SWAT tests were used to analyze data and information. The findings of the research showed that the value of the significance level is less than 0.05 (sig = 0.00), so the difference in the average of intelligentization of sustainable urban neighborhoods is accepted, so that governance with the mean square value (1.011) and intelligent transportation with the mean square value ( 1.473) has had the most impact among the studied indicators. Also, in order to investigate the question raised, the results show that the most important implementation strategy according to the experts, respectively, is to create the necessary platforms for the awareness and cultural adaptability of the intelligentization of sustainable neighborhoods; Marketing and business development strategy (electronic marketing); Attracting capital and creating jobs through the smartening of urban areas; cooperation and participation of citizens in accepting urban smartness; Government investment in smartening sustainable urban neighborhoods; The interactive cooperation between the organizations in monitoring the implementation of intelligentization of sustainable urban neighborhoods took the 1st to 6th strategic ranks.

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