Analysis of Housing Indicators in Amol City

Housing is one of the basic social indicators that determines the quality of life and well-being of people and places. Today, the concept of housing plays a vital role in achieving sustainable development. Therefore, housing development as a multidimensional issue is one of the most important goals of urban planning and management. This study has been compiled with the aim of reviewing and analyzing housing quality indicators in the neighborhoods of Amol City. The present study is applied-developmental in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of nature and method. The required data has been extracted from the statistical blocks of Amol City in 2016 census. The results obtained from the factor analysis method showed that 4 main factors affect the quality of housing in the neighborhoods of Amol City, explaining a total of 86% of the variance. Housing quality zoning showed that, in total, the suitable residential region covering 55% of the area and including 66% of the city population is more concentrated in the western half of Haraz River and along the north-south axis while the unsuitable residential region covering 24% of the area and 21% of the population can be seen in old, worn and surrounding textures connected to the urban area, in the western, northeastern, and eastern zones of the city. According to the cluster analysis method, the neighborhoods of Amol City are classified into five clusters; in the first cluster, there are 4 neighborhoods and 24% of the total housing; in the second cluster, there are 2 neighborhoods and 9% of the total housing; in the third cluster, there are 3 neighborhood and 9% of the total housing; in the fourth cluster, there are 2 neighborhoods and 6% of the total housing; and in the fifth cluster, there are 9 neighborhoods and 50% of the total housing of the city.