Resilience in Urban Housing Area, Case Study: City of Saqqez

The main purpose of this paper is to study resilience in urban housing area of Saqqez city. The statistical population of the study includes residents of 22 neighborhoods of Saqqez that according to the results of the 2016 census, their number was 165.258 people. The research method is descriptive-analytical with emphasis on the practical aspects. That is a data collection tool through a library, field studies, urban land use map, use of statistics and censuses in 2016. First, the radius of performance of the outer physical criterion is determined by the network analysis in the GIS to perform the necessary analysis. Data on other criteria were collected using field surveys and statistical data and they were then weighted to prioritize the importance and needs of citizens in the AHP and finally we did the analysis in the Todim. The research results show that according to the resilience evaluation criteria in the housing area of the formal neighborhoods of 22 Saqqez city, neighborhoods 16, 17, 6, 19, 18 and 12, located in the southwest, part of the northeast and west of the city, have unbearable resilience. Improving the space and proper distribution of revenues is one of the most important proposals, along with greater cohesion and sense of belonging, monitoring of construction rules and regulations, access to the main thoroughfares network and creating financial incentives. The novelty of this study is in using network analysis software, builder and Todim to determine the radius of performance and ranking the resilience in urban housing area and in the neighborhoods of Saqqez city.