Development of City Prosperity Model in Neighborhoods of Tehran with Emphasis on Quality of Life Component

Nowadays, cities are growing at an unprecedented rate which has caused significant challenges. Among these turbulences, we must seek a comprehensive and fundamental solution to improve the quality of life. The city prosperity model presented by the United Nations Human Settlements Program in 2012 offers a new approach to urban prosperity and sustainability. This paper while discovering and studying the relationship between city and prosperity indicators, develops the most commonly used model in the world and creates a native model for measuring, identifying opportunities and promoting cities with an emphasis on the quality of life component in urban prosperity approach.

In the theoretical part, this research has been conducted based on descriptive and analytical methods; and by conducting library studies and analyzing the attitudes associated with the city prosperity model and the concept of quality of life, it attempts to document and extract the components, dimensions and indicators of these two categories. These indicators were tested through 380 questionnaires in neighborhoods of Tehran metropolitan and then, using factor analysis statistical method, significant factors were selected.

Using factor analysis, the 22 main factors of urban prosperity were identified based on the data of the neighborhoods of Tehran. Each of these factors, which have a more semantic and functional relationship, were expressed in the 6 main dimensions of urban prosperity in the proposed model. Finally, the developed and localized model of urban prosperity was presented emphasized on the quality of life component.

The proposed model can be very effective in achieving sustainable urban development, improving the quality of life and measuring the prosperity status in cities of Iran, It can be presented as a Localized and developed example of the global city prosperity model, which is a reliable measure for reviewing, analyzing and prioritizing urban actions.