Analyzing the child friendly city indicators in Ahvaz metropolis

Public spaces such as sidewalks, parks and playgrounds are places for socializing children. Preparing the urban space for children both increases their social responsibilities for urban life, makes them more respectful of the urban environment and spaces in the future, and also more diligent in its maintenance. For this purpose, the present study has been compiled with the aim of analyzing the child friendly city indicators in Ahvaz Metropolis.The present Study is applied-theoretical in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of nature and method. The method of data collection is documentary and field. The results of the fit indices of the first-order factor analysis model indicate the confirmation of all indicators (children’s safety and ease of movement; children’s security; children's playground space; access to services, education and culture; and child friendly city).According to the results obtained from structural equations, it can also be said that the path coefficient between safety and ease of children's movement; children’s security; children's playground space; access to services, education and culture; and child friendly city are respectively equal to 0.244,; 176/0; 225/0 and 194/0; And because these values are greater than 1.96; Therefore, the relationship of all indicators with the child friendly city is significant. The results of Friedman test also showed that the significance level obtained from Friedman test is less than 0.05, so there is a difference between the mean rank of research variables at 95% confidence level (p = 0.001); In other words, the priority of child friendly city indicators in the eight districts of Ahvaz was not the same from the perspective of research samples.