Studying and Analyzing the Role of Public Spaces in Social Sustainability of Cities Case Study: Sardasht City

The purpose of this research is to investigate and analyze the role of public spaces in the social sustainability of Sardasht city. The method was documentary-analytical and survey and the samples were selected using simple random sampling method. Findings were analyzed according to the users’ of public spaces opinions and by using SPSS ver.19.0 and Arc GIS ver.10.1 software. The results show that, furniture and safety facilities are moderate and low. Also from all the studied items; Sociability, activity and functionality, beauty and comfort and accessibility, respectively, quarters of Gerda Soor with (0.73), Sooy Barda Ghooch (0.62), Gerda Soor (0.81) and Gerda Soor and three-way Marghan (0.100) have the most deprivation and the quarters of Sarchaveh (0.98), Sarchaveh (0.93), Farhangian (0.96) and Ashan with (0.100) have the highest development. The results of correlation coefficient also show that the limitation of women's presence in public spaces with a coefficient of -0.163 and environmental pollution with a coefficient of -0.361 have a negative and inverse relationship and indicators related to the facilities of spaces, responsibility, sense of belonging, participation, security and social interaction have a direct and positive correlation coefficient.