Analyzing the Future Smart City of Ahvaz From the Perspective of the Macro Components of Its Formation

Subject Areas : Urban Futurology

Mahyar Sajadian ¹ , Mohammad Ali Firoozi ² , Ahmad PourAhmad ³

1 - PhD student of geography and urban planning, Department of Geography, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 - Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Department of Geography, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran.
3 - Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Department of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2022-09-27 Accepted : 2022-11-04 Published : 2022-10-23

Keywords: Ahvaz city, Governance, Smart city, Smart Economy, Drivers of Development,

Abstract :

Today, moving towards smart cities is not only a reality, but a necessity in order to solve the current problems of urbanization, including in the city of Ahvaz, which is full of problems. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to analyze the realization of the smart city from the perspective of the macro components of such cities. This article is considered among applied-developmental researches. It is question-oriented and it has been done in a document-library and survey form; in an exploratory way using the exploratory factor analysis method, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Shapiro-Wilk tests; And a sample t-tech test and Friedman's rating test have been done in response to the research questions. In order to collect descriptive data, library and documentary studies were used, and survey method and questionnaire tool were used to collect analytical data. The statistical community of the research included academic experts. The sampling method was a two-stage cluster. ; Finally, 142 samples were selected. The final content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinion of the professors, after some corrections, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.878 for the entire questionnaire showed the desirability and acceptability of the reliability of the questionnaire. For the quantitative content validity of the questionnaires, 10 experts, familiar with Ahvaz metropolis, and the relative coefficient of content validity (CVR) method were used. Kendall's W test (Kendall's correlation coefficient) was used to measure the credibility of the questionnaires and how reliable it is. Based on the findings of the research, the situation of the metropolis of Ahvaz is not suitable in terms of the macro components of the formation of smart cities in the current situation.