Analyzing Desirable Residential Environment of the Esfahan City in the Vision of Municipal Managers

Looking at the issues on urban literature in recent years and written numerous and various articles and books in field of "quality of residential environment" indicates the focus and attention of urban thinkers and theorists to this concept. In this survey with the aim of desirable residential environment analysis in Esfahan city we tried to identify the desirable residential environment and the parameters affecting the quality of the environment in order to improve the quality of residential environments. Survey data collected from the questionnaires in municipal senior executives have been analyzed with the use of analytical-descriptive method, Topsis technique and cluster analysis with in SPSS software. TOPSIS technique introduced that Abshar, Nazhvan, Mehr Abad, Abbas Abadand Dashtestan respectively, as the top five residential environments from the vision of municipal senior executives in the Esfahan city. Cluster analysis results classify desirable residential environments in four groups according to the survey index. Among factors affecting the quality of the desirable residential environment, various factors influence this quality among which, cleanliness and hygiene residential environment was the most important factor and access to historical-cultural complexes are considered as the lowest factors. According to the affecting factors on the quality of the desirable residential environment, seven ways have been presented for improving the quality of residential environments.