Evaluation of Factors Driving Neighborhood Planning With Future Research Approach in Ardabil City

Neighborhood Planning It includes all the dimensions and characteristics of urban life that can be achieve the highest goal of the urban plan which is called spatial justice, by evaluating its driving factors and provides a suitable platform for sustainable urban development.the neighborhood, as one of the organs of the city system, is the basis of many urban policies and methods in the development of the world's urban sustainability landscape. The neighborhood approach has been proposed as a solution to deal with the physical disintegration of cities and the decline in social quality of contemporary urban environments, which have been formed in uniform contexts devoid of identity and spatial distinctions. According to this, the main goal of this research is to identify and driving the key factors of neighborhood planning with a future research approach in Ardabil city.

The method of research of this study in terms of purpose is applied and in terms of nature and method is descriptive-analytical. the statistical population of the research includes researchers in the field of neighborhood planning in Ardabil city. the sample size was 30 people that obtained by the snowball sampling(with theoretical saturation) and analyzed the data of this research with Micmac software. The working method is such that first the important variables in the desired domain are identified, then they are entered in a matrix such as the impact analysis matrix, and the degree of connection between these variables in the related domain is recognized by experts. The variables in the rows affect the variables in the columns; In this way, row variables are influential and column variables are influential. The correlation of variables is measured with numbers between zero and three. Such that, based on the opinions of the group of experts, they are valued in the form of numbers (zero means no), (1 means weak effect), (2 means medium effect) and (3 means high effect).It should be noted that the questions of the questionnaire were first approved by the experts and then measured in the experimental environment, and the results of the Cronbach's alpha test for the researchermade questionnaire were equal to 0.894, which indicates the high reliability of this tool research.

Ardabil city, which is the capital of Ardabil province, is located between Talash and Sablan mountains. According to the 2013 census, the population of Ardabil city was equal to 485,153 people, while in 2015, its population increased to 564,474 people. according to the latest division, it includes 5 regions and 51 neighborhoods. Ardabil city like the other city of iran country confront with excessive development; It has aggravated social, economic and environmental issues in the city. the result of these conditions has been the disruption of social and biological balance and stability, and spatial inequalities, especially in neighborhoods, and the lack of necessary capacities for harmonic development has to led the instability of neighborhoods. In the meantime, the differences and imbalances in the different textures of Ardabil city surface in the four forms of old texture (traditional and worn out) and marginal (informal settlement and transformed rural) and middle texture and new texture (planned) are related to this imbalance and instability in the urban scale is fueled. In order to achieve this goal at the level of Ardabil city, it is necessary to identify the key factors and driving forces of neighborhood planning in Ardabil city. the findings show that the distribution of the variables in the influence-affectability axis shows the stability or instability of the neighborhood planning system in Ardabil city. the variables of laws and instructions, strategic vision, administrative system, delegation of responsibility and legality, have the highest rankings of influence and variables of social trust, participation of residents, collective agreement, security and delegation of responsibility, have the highest rankings of overall influence. In totally, among the 23 variables which examined, 12 variables of those like rules and guidelines, administrative system, strategic insight, responsibility-responsibility, upstream plans, legality, justice-oriented, transparency, collaborative platform, delegation of responsibility, effectiveness and accountability have been selected as driving factors of neighborhood planning in Ardabil city.

Based on the result that we should considered the key role of the mentioned factors in this research of any neighborhood planning in Ardabil city. These variables have high influencing power and low dependence in improving neighborhood planning and they should be considered the first priority in planning a neighborhood in Ardabil city. Interaction between the government (regulating laws and balancing the relations of civil institutions), civil society (facilitating interactions between society and politics) and the private sector (creating income and jobs), redefining and resetting the power structure (political, economic and social) in organizations local, planning budget provision and budget distribution based on the principles of social capital, having a strategic and long-term vision of city managers for the future of the city and citizens, etc. are among the suggestions for better advancement of neighborhood planning with an emphasis on the future approach of research