Firooz Jafari; Hojjat Mohammadi Torkamani; Zahra Rasoulzadeh
Abstract
The concept of livability has emerged alongside sustainability as a slogan in public discourse and planning. Planners and policymakers in relation to the creation or preservation of cities mention the concept of livability as a guiding principle for investment and decision-making and shaping the social, ...
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The concept of livability has emerged alongside sustainability as a slogan in public discourse and planning. Planners and policymakers in relation to the creation or preservation of cities mention the concept of livability as a guiding principle for investment and decision-making and shaping the social, economic, physical and biological environment of the city, and livability is considered the standard of living and the general desirability of people living in a settlement like the city. This concept has various dimensions and indicators and is measured by them.The present study was conducted with the aim of providing an analysis of the factors affecting livability in district 8 of Tabriz metropolitan, which by studying the principles and available resources to develop a livability model for the study area. Then, using the opinions of the residents of the area, the model is tested and finally the final model is presented using the second-order confirmatory factor analysis. The results show that 8 main components with 41 variables form the components of the model."Infrastructure quality" with a factor load of 0.88 is the most important dimension and "health facilities" with a load of 0.23 is the least important dimension in establishing livability. Therefore, based on the obtained results, it can be acknowledged that in order to achieve the desired livability and maintain it, the obtained effective components must be comprehensively addressed.
Mohsen Ahad Nejad; Hojjat Mohamadi Torkamani; Ghahreman Khoshrooy
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Natural disasters, specially earthquake has always been a treat for human activities, which resulting damages and losses are being seen specially in developing countries, despite technological progresses in various dimensions. Until recent decades, opinions and theories about the resulting vulnerability ...
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Natural disasters, specially earthquake has always been a treat for human activities, which resulting damages and losses are being seen specially in developing countries, despite technological progresses in various dimensions. Until recent decades, opinions and theories about the resulting vulnerability of earthquake was limited to physical factors, but recently, theories emphasize on the multidimensionality of vulnerability, and this is the concept of social vulnerability. The purpose of this research is to provide an evaluation of social vulnerability to earthquake in Tabriz city, and explaining the relationship of physical vulnerability and social vulnerability. This research presents a model of social vulnerability to earthquake, in zone 1 of Tabriz city, using 4 index of housing quality, population, economical-social, and access to specific land-uses and the related sub-indicators. At first Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) is used in order to weight indicators and sub-indicators and then final social vulnerability map is outlined after vulnerability layer(map) for each index, was created by overlapping layers in GIS. The result shows that there is a significant relationship between physical vulnerability and social vulnerability in the study area; and according to the selected indicators, the area 1 and 2 of study zone has the lowest social vulnerability and the area 5 and 3 has the most social vulnerability
