Evaluation and Analysis of Citizens' Sense of Security in Urban Spaces (Case study: Zartoshtian neighborhood of Kerman)

Nowadays, the sense of security in urban spaces has become one of the most important concerns of citizens, managers, law enforcement agencies and urban planners, and if it is ignored, the conditions for crime will be created in such a way that the lives of citizens will be in serious danger. Therefore, the purpose of writing this article is to evaluate and analyze the sense of security of citizens in the urban spaces of Zoroastrian neighborhood of Kerman. This research is part of applied research in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical research in terms of its nature and method. Data collection has been obtained through a questionnaire with 4 main indicators and 23 items through the review of valid research documents and field impressions. The statistical population of the research is the citizens of Zoroastrian neighborhood of Kerman city, and the sample size was collected according to Cochran's formula to the number of 120 residents of the said neighborhood and the distribution of the questionnaire was random. SPSS software and Friedman's statistical tests and Spearman's correlation coefficient were used to analyze the findings from the field studies. The results of the research showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the four components of citizens' sense of security, so that the highest correlation between "social-behavioral" and "physical-spatial" components with a value of (0.645); And the lowest correlation between "monitoring" and "access" components is with the value (0.234). Also, with the results obtained from the Friedman test, it was found that the access index with a total average of 1/65 is in the worst condition compared to other research indices, which means that this index is more important than other research indices at the Zoroastrian neighborhood level. After that, there are the social-behavioral index, the monitoring index and finally the physical-service index. In the end, according to the results of this research, there are suggestions to improve the status of these indicators in the performance of the Zoroastrian neighborhood, including the improvement and improvement of abandoned spaces, improving the lighting conditions of roads and alleys at night, increasing the participation of citizens in the implementation of urban plans, improving the condition of sidewalks and Passages etc, are provided.