Evaluation and analysis of the sustainability of Ahvaz city with an emphasis on the performance of urban management

Subject Areas : Geography and Urban Planning

Saeed Amanpour ¹ , Khatereh Ramezanpour Asadieh ² , seydeh masomeh razavi ³ , Zahra Mohaghegh ⁴

1 - Associate Professor in Geography & Urban Planning. Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Literature and Humanities, Shahid Chamran, Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
3 - PhD student in Geography and Urban Planning, Kharazmi University, Iran, Tehran
4 - Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Chamran, Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2021-09-18 Accepted : 2022-04-05 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: Stability, Urban Management, correlation analysis, city of Ahvaz,

Abstract :

This study has evaluated the performance of urban management in urban sustainability of Ahvaz cityThe research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of nature. The statistical population is the citizens of Ahvaz city. The sample size of Cochran's formula is equal to 322 people. A questionnaire was designed in the form of 5 indicators: socio-cultural, economic, physical-physical, political, and environmental. Data analysis was used in the SPSS software space.The total average shows that the situation of urban management in Ahvaz is unfavorable and socio-cultural and economic stability is worse than other indicators. The results of the one-sample t-test showed that all indicators are far from the hypothetical mean (3). This factor indicates the instability of indicators in urban areas. Overall, Region 1 was better off in terms of economic and political sustainability, Region 8 in terms of social sustainability, Region 3 in terms of physical, and Region 4 in terms of the environment. The results of the correlation analysis show that region 1 is moderately stable and the regions 6, 7, and 8 are in the very low range, and regions 2, 3, and 4 are in the vicinity of the low spectrum. Finally, according to the results, indicators of urban management sustainability in the city of Ahvaz are divided into 5 levels. The average of the first level is 24.10, the second level is 23.49, the third level is 22.42, the fourth level is 21.37 and the average of the fifth level is 19.79.