Measuring and Assessing the Urban Resilience in the Social, Economic, Physical and Environmental Dimensions (Case study: Shiraz City)

Subject Areas : Architecture and urbanism

leyla mohammadi kazemabadi ¹ , Mohammad Ali Khanizadeh ² , Ahmad Pourahmad ³

1 - Ph.D., Student, Geography and Urban Planning, Mazandaran University, Mazandaran, Iran
2 - Master of Urban Planning, General Office of Recognition and Revenue Collection of Shiraz Municipality, Shiraz, Iran *(Corresponding Author
3 - Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-04-01 Accepted : 2019-01-09 Published : 2020-10-22

Keywords: Shiraz city, quality of life, resilience,

Abstract :

Background and Objective: The growth of modern cities is often followed without standards and unbridled. With this picture, if cities suffer from natural and abnormal accidents, it is very difficult to return to pre-disaster situations. Method: The present research is an applied and analytical-descriptive purpose. This study uses a hierarchical analysis model to evaluate resilience with emphasis on quality of life in Shiraz. In this regard, 30 questionnaires were submitted to experts and questions consisted of economic, socio-cultural, and social dimensions. Environmental and physical. Then, these dimensions and their sub-criteria were implemented in the AHP method. Findings: The findings indicate that: the highest level of resilience was given in the order of priority, then environment with average (0.224), socio-cultural dimension with mean (198/0), structural-dimensional dimension with mean (0.191) ) and the economic dimension with an average (0.110). Discussion and Conclusion: According to research findings, it can be claimed that the lack of environmental pollution and environmental diversity have led to relative stability in this category, and on the other hand, the existence of an almost optimal interpersonal and social relationship between the age structure and sex of the community is a resilient state and has created social and cultural aspects. The existence of varied uses and historic aberrations in urban context as a positive point and the existence of exhaustion in some places, both structural and functional, has been shown to be negative. Unfortunately, the economic quality and employment issues, as in other cities of the country, are very low and uncertain, and the need to strengthen this sector is highly felt.

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