Marziyeh Shahryari; Fatemeh Hamidi
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Informal housing is a common style of urban growth in most developing countries and is organized somehow which is neither urban nor rural. This study aimed to understand the daily life experience of citizens in the suburbs of Hoveyzeh city in Khuzestan province. The research method in this research was ...
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Informal housing is a common style of urban growth in most developing countries and is organized somehow which is neither urban nor rural. This study aimed to understand the daily life experience of citizens in the suburbs of Hoveyzeh city in Khuzestan province. The research method in this research was based on the qualitative method in the form of data theory and the data collection technique was semi-structured interviews and participatory field observations. To achieve the research objectives, 20 residents of these areas have been purposefully selected. Interviews continued until the saturation of data. After coding, 21 main categories of data emerged, each of which was analyzed based on the text of the interviews. In terms of conditions including (lack of support and skills, disregard for spatial justice, the need to change the space for social change, sense of abandonment, direct experience of war, actors' mental contexts, historical criticism of the produced space, marginalized lifestyle, acceptance and normal Marginal life, destiny and heredity, local dependence on interests and connections, combination of fear and narrative) and in the action-interaction dimension (confrontation, conflict, comparison, feeling of despair in changing the situation, the blind cycle of poverty) and in Then there are the consequences (marginalization of the marginalized, the principles of the right to the city as a missing link, the combination of fear and narrative, self-reliance) that have formed around a core category called (bio-luxury and return to habit). Finally, after extracting the findings, using the GIS, the relationship between location and the incidence of injuries is discussed and the results are expressed analytically and graphically. Also, the results of the spatial analysis show that among the vulnerability components, most of Hoveyzeh's areas are exposed to security and psychological vulnerabilities.
Mousa Vaezi; Akbar Esmaili; Tohid Ahmadi; Habil Khorami
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An important issue creating mush problems throughout the city of Shiraz, which is also an issue that officials of the city are struggling to overcome, is the study of the traffic status of Shiraz, and also the study of multi-purpose stops and park and rides available throughout the city in order to fulfil ...
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An important issue creating mush problems throughout the city of Shiraz, which is also an issue that officials of the city are struggling to overcome, is the study of the traffic status of Shiraz, and also the study of multi-purpose stops and park and rides available throughout the city in order to fulfil the present and future needs of Shiraz. This shows the necessity for studies to be conducted on the matter. Hence, the present article aims at locating and investigating the functional role of multi-purpose stops and park and rides in Shiraz. To achieve this goal, preliminary studies were conducted on the theoretical foundations of the problem, and it was then attempted to identify the influential indicators. Modeling, designing, and creating the necessary database in GIS were applied to enter Shiraz city data layers and attempted to identify potential areas for building multi-functional parking lots and stops by applying coefficients influencing each of these indices using multi-criteria decision-making methods (MCDM). The results indicate that the appropriate spots for establishing Park & Ride locations are Central, North and North East of Shiraz, and based on field studies, 54 potential points outside of the city traffic limit and 39 points inside and in total 93 potential points were selected and prioritized.
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
Reza Mostofi; Tahereh Erfanmanesh; amir saberi; Mohammad Reza Akbari
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In most cases, distressed areas of Iran cities make up the core and main districts of cities. On one hand, they are considered as cultural and historical heritages of those cities, therefore; it is necessary to retaining physical rehabilitation and empowerment of their performance. On the other hand, ...
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In most cases, distressed areas of Iran cities make up the core and main districts of cities. On one hand, they are considered as cultural and historical heritages of those cities, therefore; it is necessary to retaining physical rehabilitation and empowerment of their performance. On the other hand, with the passage of time and as a result of lacking proper maintenance, most of the tissues suffer from exhaustion and collapse of their physical and functional. Along with social, economic and cultural changes and new technologies, urban tissues have also been changed since the city like other synthetic man-made phenomena will change over time. Iran's most ancient and densely populated cities have such a preparing vulnerability layer (map) for each index, final social vulnerability map is outlined created by overlapping layers in GIS. Also using TOPSIS Technique, five areas under the study have been ranked based on social vulnerability. Findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between physical vulnerability and social vulnerability in the study area. Further in unit district analysis, the area 3 has the most social vulnerability to earthquake and the others are ranked 5,4,1,2 respectively.
