مجله پژوهش های بوم شناسی شهری
پیاپی 32 (پاییز 1402)

In recent years, due to the upward growth of the elderly population in the world, this issue has become one of the focus points of researchers. The issue of optimizing social urban structures is the most basic issue in studies related to the elderly in the field of urban planning. In this research, the indicators of measuring the infrastructure of the elderly-friendly city in the metropolis of Mashhad have been examined. The research method is descriptive-analytical, which was implemented using the survey method. According to the structure of the questionnaires, the statistical population of the research consisted of experts in the urban area, health and hygiene services, psychological services and transportation and information technology in Mashhad city. The sample size was determined using Cochran's formula of 100 people. The research samples were selected using a simple random method. The research data was collected using the standard questionnaire of the World Health Organization. According to the results of the research, Mashhad city is not in a good condition for the elderly in the indicators of housing, outdoor spaces and buildings, community support and health services, civic participation and employment. Also, according to Friedman's test, the average rating of open space and buildings index in the city of Dostdar Salamand has the highest priority, and the communication and information index has the lowest priority among the indicators. The achievement of this research is the precise recognition of the shortcomings of Mashhad metropolis compared to the standard scales of the elderly-friendly city.

The aim of this study was to identify and introduce desirable areas of eco-tourism treatment in Guilan province. For this purpose, in a quantitative-qualitative research was done based on documentary and field studies. The researcher used a pair-wise comparison questionnaire to evaluate 4 criteria and 18 sub-criteria of environmental characteristics and cognitive variables according to 25 tourism and health experts in Guilan province. Although Guilan province is one of the most important and considered areas in the field of eco-tourism, so far the advantage of its ecotourism treatment has not been used. The present study is the first to identify and zone the areas susceptible to implication in Guilan province in order to diversify opportunities and focus tourism development programs. According to the results, the criteria of natural attractions with a numerical value of 0.632 and the sub-criterion of the possibility of touching the elements of nature with the five senses with a numerical value of 0.277 were the most important study priorities of the research from the perspective of experts. Based on the zoning map of prone areas for healing eco-tourism, 13.38% of the area of Guilan province were located in a very good and good range for the sustainable development of tourism destinations, prioritizing and directing operational resources accordingly.

Bandar Abbas city includes a special architectural style in an area with hot and humid climate that, our predecessors had ingredients the knowledge of vernacular architectural features and their application in the city by thinking about the climate to achieve sustainable architecture and urban planning. As they analyzed and evaluated it in detail with three scales of urban fabric, single-building architecture and architectural details in order to understand the vernacular architecture in the city of Bandar Abbas as a sustainable model.To investigate this search, in a qualitative study several areas of the urban fabric with the existing buildings (60 buildings dating back over 70 years of age) were selected and analyzed. The results showed that in the scale of the urban fabric (factors of building form, skeletal neighborhood spaces) and in the single-building scale (orientation of buildings, green areas, central courtyard, communicative structure of the inner spaces) and for the architectural details (bars, thick walls, openings) are the features of vernacular architecture of the region which played an important role in the sustainability of Bandar Abbas, to develop the regional consistency with climate and knowing the construction approaches in architecture and urbanism they could achieve a suitable model for the construction in a hot and humid climate and provided it for new architects and urban planners.

The housing sector is one of the most important land uses in cities. Considering the various environmental, economic and social problems of scattered urban growth and also the need to provide housing, especially in big cities, planning and designing suitable residential complexes to improve the quality of life is absolutely necessary to respond to the residential needs of citizens. The present article, in the first place, seeks to define and index the concept of "quality of life" and in the second place, to determine the amount of quality of life in various scales of residential complexes. The main goal of the research is to rank residential complexes and explain the effective factors in the quality of life of these types of residential units. In this study, after identifying the factors affecting the quality of life in the studied residential complexes using the factor analysis method, the weighting of the main and secondary criteria was done using the network analysis method. The weighting results according to this method show that the criterion of geographic location with 334. and the component of environmental conditions with a score of 118. They assigned the highest and lowest weight respectively in the quality of life of residential complexes. In the following, the residential complexes were ranked in terms of quality of life using Vicor Plus, network analysis and TOPSIS ranking techniques. Due to the different rating points, to reach a general consensus about the quality of life of residential complexes, the consolidated model of Cape Land has been used. According to the Cape Land technique, in terms of quality of life, the Asman residential complex ranked first with a score of -6 and the accommodation complex ranked last.

The present study utilizes the cross-impact analysis technique as one of the common and accepted methods of future-based studies to analyze the impact of smart city factors on the components of infill development in the historical contexts of the Tabriz city. The method of the present study is descriptive-analytical. In this manner, 34 components of smart city along with 19 variables of infill development were extracted using environmental scanning technique and were analyzed by 30 urban planning experts through Micmac software. The results of the research indicate the instability of the system in the metropolis of Tabriz, according to which, five categories of influential, two-sided, influential, independent and risk factors can be identified. Finally, by studying, reviewing and analyzing the results, 7 key factors influencing smart development include creativity, innovative spirit, sustainable resource management, local access, sustainable and creative transportation. The safety, attractiveness of natural conditions and flexibility and 4 key factors influencing infill development, including affordable housing, land productivity, population density and polluting land uses were determined. Who have played the most important role in recreating the future of dysfunctional tissues of Tabriz metropolis with an emphasis on smart urban development. The innovation of the present study can also be indicated in two areas: subject (due to lack of studies in this subject) and methodology (Micmac method).

The purpose of this research was to explain how to use quality performance enhancement to reflect the demands and tendencies of the people in promoting ecological security management in the city. In order to evaluate the performance of this technique, the Persian Gulf Martyrs-Lake recreation complex in Tehran was studied as an example and 10 popular demands in economic, physical, social and environmental dimensions were revealed and by implementing of the quality performance enhancement technique and 15 optimal methods for satisfaction of the maximum requirements were suggested. The results indicated that it is possible to use the expansion of quality performance in conditions of uncertainty in order to reflect the wishes and desires of the people in urban spaces. Based on the implementation of this technique in the case study, the weight of increase in the number of benches and the installation of roofed pavilions in order to create shade and seating was 3.17. Depending on the type of activity (10.64), the installation of solar lamps for lighting and ambient lighting (10.27), have the highest relative weights. This confirms the high importance of physical and health dimensions in the management of ecological security from the perspective of research samples. The novelty of this study is in using quality performance development technique in improving urban ecological security management

The present research was carried out with the aim of explaining neighborhood planning based on worn-out urban contexts with an emphasis on the approach of neo-urbanism in the 19th district of Tehran. The research was a descriptive-analytical study using the survey method. To collect the required data, field observations, documents and studies of upstream projects and local interviews and questionnaires among the residents of the studied neighborhoods have been used. In order to answer the first question according to the goals and hypotheses of the research, bivariate regression analysis was used. The results indicate that the two variables mentioned above have a significant relationship with each other and the alpha value is less than 0. 05, which means that neo-urbanism has an effect on the desire for renovation and explains the changes of it (renovation of dilapidated fabric). Metaswat model was used to answer the second question. According to the competitive map, prioritization of competitors it was concluded that Shahid Kazemi neighborhoods with a weight of 97. 3 have the most problems and should be paid more attention to. Also, in terms of willingness to renovate the dilapidated fabric of Nematabad neighborhood, it has the highest priority with a rank of 3. 82, which shows the residents' unwillingness to renovate.

The main goal of this research was to evaluate the status of economic indicators in the realization of spatial justice of parks and urban green spaces. The method of current research is based on a valuational-analytical method and the statistical community includes three regions of Bandar Abbas city. Data collection was done in library and field ways. To evaluate the economic indicators in spatial justice, Gini coefficient, the ratio of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on population, inflation rate and development rate of green spaces were used and the impact of indicators on the spatial justice of parks and green spaces was identified by Eveiws software. The coefficient of determination obtained in the regression model was 0.99 which indicates that the independent variables explain 0.99 variations of the dependent variable. Studied parameters were determined in order of priority: Gini coefficient indicators, the proportion of population onthe GDP and inflation rate. Among them, Gini coefficient has the greatest effect. In other words, the development of high quality parks, both functionally and ecologically in Bandar Abbas city tends to the area in which its population has a lower Gini coefficient. Therefore, considering the influential economic variables and having a comprehensive view, a fair movement in the expansion of the green spaces can be started.