Assessment of urban textile viability with emphasis on social sustainability (Case Study: Informal settlements of Hamadan city)

Social sustainability in general has been associated with qualitative dimensions, comprising participation, trust, security, cohesion, and quality of life. Investigating this issue in the informal settlements has become increasingly important due to the prevalence of a citizen-centered and sustainable intervention model. This paper aims to investigate the viability of social sustainability dimensions and to assess the social sustainability capacity of informal housing textures in the Hamadan as a case study

The research method in this paper is descriptive-analytical ine. The data are using library and field method. Research indicators include three components of participation, security and quality of life. The population of the study is 360 households living in informal settlements in Hamadan. The analysis was performed using mean, variance, and Pearson statistics, one-sample t-test and paired t-test. The validity of the research was determined by theoretical foundations and Cronbach's alpha was 0.68.

The results show that despite the spatial differences of neighborhoods, social stability status in these neighborhoods is similar. The average difference between the indicators of participation and social security is relatively small, but the difference between the quality of life index and other indicators is relatively high. Paired t-test and Pearson test results show that the indices are correlated and affect each other.

there is a lowe gap between social sustainability indices in objective and subjective dimension and quality of life with respect to the level of access to services and satisfaction with services provided indicating service failure and regarding expectation of service delivery in these neighborhoods, the mentioned  value is proportaional low.