Spatial analysis of citizen's security feeling in urban spaces with futures studies approach (Case study: Khorramabad city)

With increasing population density in cities, all of the economic, social, and cultural dimensions in cities have undergone fundamental changes. Alongside these issues, the security feeling in urban spaces has become one of the concerns of urban planners and managers. In fact, one of the main goals of urban planning is to decide in the present time that urban activities in the future will be well targeted for the benefit of its citizens. Explaining and describing the security of urban spaces in the future can reduce the occurrence of a variety of social anomalies. The present study aims to space analysis of the citizen's security feeling in urban spaces in terms of future study in Khorramabad city with a descriptive-exploratory approach based on documentary-survey resources. The studied statistical population is elite and experts in the field of security in urban spaces. MicMac software is used to analyze the information, structural analysis method and interaction effect matrix. Regarding the effectiveness of the studied variables on the future of security feeling in Khorramabad, the results of the research showed that five effective variables include employment, income and social class, the effect of managers' mechanisms on reducing abnormalities, social and citizen feedback of each other and the rate surrounded of residential units on each other. Based on the variables affecting security management in urban spaces, it can be said that the state of instability is dominant in the system.