Explaining strategies to improve the quality life with emphasis on the livability of streets and urban areas (Case study: District 9 of Tehran)

So far, the concept of quality of life and its criteria have been studied from different perspectives. Also,streets have been the main element of the city structure from the beginning and they can play a role as a human‐centered urban space to increase liveability and life quality. With the arrival of cars in urban spaces, man and his needs were gradually forgotten. human senses and his perception lost its place at designing process. Today, we are faced with spaces of anonymity that leave no image in the mind except heavy traffic and noise pollution. Most streets have only a passin and access function, and activities such as sitting, watching and sitting in the urban space have disappeared. This research seeks to improve the quality of life with emphasis on liveable streets and public spaces of District 9 of Tehran. For this purpose, after identifying and determining the effective dimensions and indicators, the selected criteria in the environmental, economic, social, cultural and physical dimensions in the two sub region 1 and 2 have been studied. A questionnaire prepared for this purpose was distributed among the citizens of these areas and examined separately. After extracting 4 dimensions and 13 sub‐criteria effective in the research to recognize the current situation and study the problems, we can suggest appropriate solutionsto improve the liveability of areas, streets and cities