A comparative study of perceived quality of urban life in families living in formal and informal settlements of Mashhad
Subject Areas : Woman and familySimin Foroughzadeh 1 , Seyed Mahdi Panjtani 2
1 - Research Instructor , Academic staff of Iranian Academic Center for Education Culture & Research (ACECR), Khorasan Razavi Branch, Iran s.foroughzade@jdm.ac.ir
2 - PhD student in Sociology of Economics and Development, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Research Member of Khorasan Razavi University Jihad Organization, Mashhad, Iran.
Keywords: Mashhad, Family, Quality of urban life, formal and informal settlement,
Abstract :
Quality of urban life is considered a major area in urban studies in different countries and attention to its multiple social, environmental and economic dimensions has been enhanced due to its role as a key component in urban management and planning and, in general, determining the extent of city livability.Quality of urban life is an effort to provide appropriate and accessible urban services to all in the context of sustainable development. Informal suburban settlements are areas whose pace of physical development and socio-economic prosperity is not in line with other urban areas and the quality of life in them is at a low level for various reasons. These settlements generally lack the adequate basic infrastructure of urban life and the residents of these areas do not have a satisfactory quality of life compared to the formal districts of the city. The objective of this study was to compare the perceived quality of urban life in families living in informal settlements with residents of formal areas of Mashhad. To accomplish this, the theory introduced by "Lee" on four dimensions of economic, social, environmental and physical components of quality of life as the basis of sustainable urban development was used., a sample of 630 heads of households in the twelve districts of Mashhad were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. The results show that the overall average of the quality of life index is 2.90 in the range of one to four, but there are differences between the two groups. The residents of formal settlements compared to the residents of informal settlements have a more positive assessment of the quality of their urban life in the three dimensions studied condition (Mean 3 versus 2.74 respectively) they. Comparison of general indicators of social dimension (social solidarity, sense of place attachment, informal participation in the neighborhood affairs, sense of family well-being and sense of security in the neighborhood) indicates the same assessment of both groups of respondents. It is only the informal participation in which residents of informal areas have a more positive assessment of their quality of life. The results indicate that there is relationship between the degree of development of urban areas and people perceived quality of urban life.
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