Recognition Concept of Urban Spaces Quality; Study the Standpoints of Citizen to Achieve Effective criteria in Qazvin City

Rapid growth of cities has caused various crises in urban life, such as environmental problems and environmental degradation. Following this, the need to pay attention to the concept of quality in residential areas, along with attention to quantitative problems, is felt more. Human settlements can be most desirable for residents, to meet their demands. Urban spaces are the places where the most interactions occur between them. In fact, the quality of the urban environment leads to the presence or absence of citizens in urban space. Lack of favorable environmental qualities has led to a diminution of social life in recent years. The city of Qazvin, as one of the middle cities with a historical background, is no exception to this and it is necessary to review the views of citizens on the quality of urban space in it. This research studies the views of citizens on the quality of life in Qazvin city with the aim of achieving effective indicators of urban quality of life in physical and social dimensions. In order to identify the factors, the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) method has been used. To determine the priority of factors, Friedman test was used. Five factors in social dimension and six factors in the physical dimension are identified and named. According to the results of the Friedman test, the most important factors in the social dimension are respectively social life and public participation, and in the physical dimension, respectively, are legibility and personalization.