Assessment and Analysis of Safety in Urban Parks

Given that the physical development of cities and modern lifestyle has created the demand for the development and creation of green spaces and Parks in the cities, surely, safety arrangements for Parks is of the necessities which is important for the municipalities and always has engaged the mind of urban planners and designers.This paper focuses on the evaluation and analyzing the safety of urban parks in Jahrom. This study, based on the aim is of applied one and from the view point of nature and method is of descriptive-analytical one. The statistical society of this research is Jahrom city which by Cochran formula , the volume of the sample was as selected 180 people and the obtained data were analyzed by using factor analysis and T tests and Spss software. Results of the study show that the mean to the total safety in the under study parks is 2.57%. The highest mean of safety is related National Garden Park (13.3 percent). Chamran (2.6 percent), kouhsar (2.53 percent), Reyhaneh (2.46 percent), parkshahr (2.4 percent) and Golestan (2.26percent) are at the next levels. The analyzed 54 primary indices were combined to 6 factors that inclued legible design, safety, health, physical access, and lighting, a sense of safety and physical safety Based on the results of factor analysis, and the results of the factor analysis indicate that the first factor explains lonely 30.96 percent of variance . The second factor 17.128%, the third one 16.087%, the fourth one 17.731 percent, the fifth one 3.528% and the sixth 2.711 accordingly calculate the percentage of the variance.