On the Evaluation of Neighborhood's Social Sustainability (Case Study: Sanglaj and Zarrabkhaneh Neighborhoods of Tehran)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

keramatoalah zyari ¹ , hossein farhadikhah ² , mahmood Arvin ³

1 - استاد گروه جغرافیا، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
2 - دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری- آمایش شهر، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
3 - دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران

Received: 2016-04-25 Accepted : 2016-12-03 Published : 2016-11-21

Keywords: Sustainability, Tehran, neighborhood, Social sustainability,

Abstract :

because of the intangibles nature of social dimension of sustainable development, against environmental and economic dimension, it is less attention. So, the purpose of this research is assessing and comparing the social sustainability indexes in the Sanglaj and Zarabkhane neighborhoods of Tehran. The research methodologies in this research is descriptive-analytical, and for data gathering, use Library and survey (questionnaire) methods. In this paper, security and access to services indexes as the independent indexes variable and participation, belonging of place, responsibility and social trust indexes as dependent variables was considered. The statistical population, Sangalaj and Zarabkhaneh neighbirhood Population is that, sample size of the study calculates by Cochran formula, with a confidence level of 95%, 320 people in each both neighborhood in each neighborhood 160 questionnaires randomly distributed. Analysis of data carry out by SPSS software (one sample T-test, Manova and Independent Samples Test) was used. The results show that in the Zarabkhaneh neighborhood indicators a place belongs and participation is not desirable, but the variables responsibility, social trust, security and quality of access to services are desirable, in the neighborhood Sanglaj is the only indicator of a good partnership. Finally, in terms of sustainability indicators evaluated in this study, between Zarabkhaneh neighborhood with average 3.42 and Sanglaj neighborhood whit average 2.75, is a significant difference.

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