Identifying and explaining factors affecting the housing pattern in coastal cities(Case study: Bushehr city)

Housing is a basic human need and an indicator of human development. Housing as the spatial crystallization and physical incarnation of human settlements in the environment is considered the smallest geographic. The most important part of the city is the place of human life, and it also includes a major share of user levels. The house is the main place where human beings deal with all their lifetime. The first is a world in which man dwells in his lifetime and finds personality. As the human is growing, transforming and flourishing. The purpose of this research is to identify and explain the role of economic, social, cultural and environmental factors affecting the housing pattern of Bushehr city. The research method is descriptive-analytical and survey. The statistical population includes the total population of Bushehr city in 1395 equal to 298594 people. The sample size, which is calculated using the Cochran relation for the population of Bushehr, is 324, which has increased to 350 samples, due to its validity and reliability, which have been selected randomly. Using structural equation modeling, the relationship between economic, cultural, social and environmental factors was studied. Among the factors mentioned above, economic factors with a significant effect (86%), cultural factors (81%) and social (78%) and environmental (75%)) Show the highest and the lowest effect on Bushehr housing pattern, respectively. Also, the results show that all of the factors affecting the housing pattern have a positive and significant relationship with a 99% confidence level.