Urban Environmental Health: From Urban Spatial Structure to Citizen Participation (Case Study: Tehran Municipality District 1)

Achieving a healthy urban environment is one of the goals of sustainable urban development. Urban environmental health is influenced by the condition and spatial structure. In addition, the human factor as the social environment issue plays a significant role in creating and changing the urban environmental health. Therefore, to promote urban environmental health, relationship analysis between manmade and social environments is necessary. The present study investigates the relationship between the urban spatial structures of Tehran municipality, district 1, and citizen participation in promoting the environmental health of neighborhoods. The research method is descriptive-analytic and the main variables are social, economic and physical-structural conditions and citizenship participation. The data was collected by using a questionnaire and statistical documents. For data analyzing SPSS and GIS software were applied. The results show a correlation between urban healthy spatial structures and citizenship participation to enhance urban environmental health. Moreover, the patterns of healthy environment conform to citizen participation patterns in promoting urban environmental health.