Comparative Study of Quality of Life Indicators in Worn out and New Urban Areas (Case study: Faizabad and Zafar Kermanshah)

Quality of life is a multi-dimensional and multi-concept term that has entered geography, especially human geography, since the 1960s, and today the main purpose of urban planning is to promote the quality of life of the inhabitants of the city. Quality of life consists of indices and sub-indices that assumes that they do not have the same importance and priority in each place, especially in two types of old and new texture. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of life indicators in a new and even old tissue (case study: Faizabad and Zafar city of Kermanshah). It also tries to study the rank and the contribution of each of these indicators and indicate the way of measurement in urban environments by describing and explaining the quality of life and identifying effective indicators. The basis for measuring the quality level in the old and new tissue is the economic, social, environmental, and physical indicators. The methodology is based on the information obtained through documentary studies and field studies. The questionnaire's data collection tool is scored in terms of the Likert spectrum. The score for these indicators is from one to five (very bad to very good or very low to very high), and the average score is 3. Data were analyzed in SPSS using descriptive statistics and Friedman ranking model. Sample size was obtained through Cochran formula and sampling method was used to determine the neighborhood from cluster-space sampling. Next, random sampling was used to select the respondents. The results of the research indicate that the type and rank of quality of life indicators in each neighborhood are different, so that the physical index in the worst-case area of Faizabad has the highest rank and this situation in the new neighborhood of Zafar is related to the social index.