Evaluation of vital drivers affecting the quality of urban life with a Futures studies approach in metropolitan areas of Iran (Case study: Tabriz metropolis)

Subject Areas : sociology

Farnaz Entesari ¹ , Dariush Sattar Zadeh ² , LIDA BALILAN ³ , AKBAR ABDOLAHZADEH TARAF ⁴

1 - Ph.D. Candidate in Urbanism, Department of Urbanism. Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
2 - Associate professor of Urbanism, Department of Urbanism. Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran. (Corresponding author) [e-mail]
3 - Associate professor of Architecture, Department of Architecture. Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
4 - Assistant professor of Architecture, Department of Architecture. Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.

Received: 2022-01-02 Accepted : 2022-03-14 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: Tabriz, Futures studies, Quality of urban life, vital drivers,

Abstract :

Improving the quality of life is one of the most important goals of different governments around the world. Quality of life studies can help identify problem areas, causes of public dissatisfaction, citizens' priorities in life, the impact of demographic social factors on quality of life and monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of quality strategies and policies in the field of quality of life. Contribute to the quality of life. In this regard, this article has been prepared with the aim of evaluating and discovering the vital factors and drivers affecting the quality of life in the city of Tabriz. The research method is applied in nature and is a descriptive-analytical research in terms of method. The work process consists of two basic stages of identifying and selecting effective criteria and discovering vital drivers among these indicators. In the first stage, using effective theoretical studies and using the Delphi method, effective indicators are identified and in the next stage, using Critical drivers affecting the quality of life in the city of Tabriz have been identified and discovered through structural analysis (cross-impact analysis) and using Mick Mac software. The research results show that among the 55 variables selected in the first stage; 18 variables (the most important of which are security, marginalization, air pollution, green and public spaces, public transportation, social and spatial justice, visual order and building density, etc.) play the most important role as vital drivers They were effective in the quality of life of Tabriz metropolis. Among these, the security index was selected as the most key index with a score of 1334. In general, the selected drivers are a combination of social, economic and physical indicators, but due to the special conditions of Tabriz metropolis, physical indicators plays a more colorful role among the drivers have.

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