Analysis of the spatial distribution of the quality of life in the Chalus City

Subject Areas : Strategy

Z. Ghorbani ¹ , B. Khakpoor ² , E. Mafi ³

1 - دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد
2 - دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد
3 - دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد

Received: 2013-09-05 Accepted : 2013-09-05 Published : 2013-08-23

Keywords: Key words: Spatial distribution, Quality of life, neighborhood, Chaloos city,

Abstract :

In Iran during the recent decades, uncontrolled extension of urbanization and migration, and population growth and urbanization and lifestyle changes caused changes in urban life and decline in functions of traditional structures. Life quality was proposed as a way to deal with these changes by policy makers and planners at national and international levels. In this study, we use descriptive and neighborhoods analysis to evaluate life quality in 14 neighborhoods of the Chalous city. According to the Morgan-Krjsy table, we performed questionnaires with sample size of 380 in Chalous's neighborhoods. The results show Chalous's citizens are satisfied and life quality in the City of Chalous is relatively high. Neighborhood 10 has the highest level of satisfaction and the highest life quality whereas neighborhood 14 has the lowest satisfaction and the lowest life quality. In most the neighborhoods, citizens have the least satisfaction in the two indicators of communication-transport and access-services and they have the highest satisfaction in the indicator of social solidarity. Neighborhoods coefficient (β) showed that the environmental indicator has the greatest impact on Chalous’s life quality with the impact factor of 0.127.