نشریه جغرافیا و مطالعات محیطی
پیاپی 35 (پاییز 1399)

Mehr Housing consists of huge residential complexes is a national project to provide affordable housing for low-income families. The inhabitants of Mehr project are an excellent source acquiring for survey information. This study pursues its aim to estimate the level of satisfaction of the occupants of Mehr Housing in Baharestan in the south of Isfahan. The main question of this research is whether the residents of Mehr Housing in Baharestan are satisfied with the physical, service, functional and economic aspects of their own complexes? These estimates make it possible to replicate any success and avoid failures in similar sets. The research method is quantitative and descriptive analytical. Data collection tools are documentary and field (through a questionnaire). The case study is Baharestan Mehr Housing and the sample size is 184 households (%55 of the occupied units). Satisfaction measurement is based on the five point Likert scale by using SPSS software based on the correlation of quantitative findings from Pearson correlation coefficient between independent variables such as income status and marital status. The results of the research are based on the correlation of quantitative findings detect that the level of satisfaction of Baharestan Mehr Housing residents with the residential environment is moderate (neutral) and the resident’s satisfaction level is 2.68 and it is moderate. The lowest level of resident’s satisfaction with the residential environment is related to the access and transportation standard and the highest level of satisfaction is related to the security criteria. The consequent disservice can be avoided to some extent by principled planning and implementation of evaluation during the design.

Urban prosperity is a concept related to balanced development and harmonized in the environment is committed to justice and embodies human activity as a kind of social construction. Nowadays a different view of the future has caused man not to seek the future, but to build his desired future by using various tools. On the other hand, the challenge of new urban life, environmental and social problems lead to future research approach in urban planning and using various devices to build a favorable future. The present study uses the technique of cross-impact analysis, which is one of the common methods in futurism by using MicMac software, which it has analyzed the components of urban prosperity in Ahvaz metropolis. In the following using the Delphi method which 30 components in five areas such as (productivity, infrastructure, quality of life, equality and social participation, and environmental sustainability) extracted as indicators of urban prosperity. The results indicate that there are five categories in the scattering pages like (influencing factors, bilateral factors, regulatory factors, influential factors and independent factors) are identifiable. Finally among the 30 mentioned factors after examining the effectiveness of these factors on each other and on the future situation of the metropolis of Ahvaz by direct and indirect methods, 7 key factors in (literacy rate, slum families, air pollution, unemployment rate, cultural centers, life expectancy at birth and poverty rates) have been selected to play the crucial role in the future situation of urban prosperity in Ahvaz. The results show that none of the components of urban prosperity in Ahvaz can be defined by experts as a target factor. This issue indicates the multifaceted issue of prosperity of Ahvaz metropolis.

The rapid growth of urbanization and process of globalization has brought expansion of the competitiveness conception at international, national, regional and local levels by the last century. According to the intercommunication among different environmental, social and economic aspects, inattention to other sectors, but more attention to the economic field though, causes an increase in peripheral and social damage in urban and regional systems. Through the last decades, Iran has also faced with the plenty of problems of unsuccessful economic development, which has led to social and environmental damage. So that it is essential for managers and urban planners to consider peripheral and social indicators in order of economic development. In the present research, an attempt has been made to determine sustainable competitive activities for the Arak metropolitan area in which it is tried to extract the most appropriate indicators using documentary methods and content analysis to measure the condition of development and competitiveness of Arak metropolitan. Field activities has been extracted by using spatial coefficient, share change analysis, export to other provinces, and natural capacity of the region. Finally, using TOPSIS method, and basing on the two criteria of economic activities through first competition and its sustainability in superior economic activities, sustainable activities with competitive advantage were determined for using in the region. Accordingly, the activities of industrial production (manufacturing), electricity, gas, steam, air conditioning, drinking water supply and purification, transportation, warehousing, agricultural activities, forestry and aquaculture have been considered.

The network of passages has a great impact on the physical-spatial development of settlements, provided that they are used optimally. The lack of a comprehensive and coherent plan for the design of rural roads in Shahinshahr and Maymeh counties has created the ground for entangling rural structures, the disorder in the organization of inside arteries, and the incompatibility of the passages with its similar uses in the villages, that requires recognizing effective standards and operational solutions to create the right avenues. This study aimed to determine the most important effective factors of rural road network design and prioritize them from the perspective of rural managers of Shahinshahr and Maymeh counties. The present study was descriptive-analytical in terms of method, which was conducted by the survey method and using a questionnaire. The sample population was 86 people, which included 30 officials related to rural issues in the city (specialists and university professors), There were 14 village governors and 42 Islamic village councils. Data analysis was performed using inferential statistical methods such as a one-sample T-test by SPSS 22. The results obtained from the statistical analysis indicate that the use of each of the five standards in the design of the network of roads in the studied villages has been desirable, but the intensity of the desirability of some standards has been higher than others. Based on the results of the analysis of the one-sample T-test, the standards of "width of the road network" with the value of T (3.123) and "level and coverage of the road network" with the value of T (2.874) have the greatest impact on the design of the road network of the villages. They have studied from the point of view of rural officials. Also, the standard of "road construction model" with T value (1.785) and "architecture and appearance of the road network" with T value (0.654) is in the last rank. Their employment status has been more unfavorable than others.

In developed countries, one of the important goals of economic policy makers is to improve the level of social welfare in society. In developing countries, not only economic growth is considered a goal, but also these countries, along with developed countries, consider increasing social welfare as one of the main goals and one of the criteria for development. The aim of this study was to investigate the social consequences of floods with emphasis on social welfare. The statistical population of this study is the population of flood victims 15 years and up in the cities of Susa, Hamidiyeh, Karun, Bostan, Shadegan, Rafi, Susangard, part of Ahvaz, and the villages around Ahvaz and the number of people in the statistical population is 49607 people. To select the sample size among the statistical population of Cochran formula has been used. Thus, according to Cochran's formula, 600 people were obtained as the sample size. Findings indicated that there is a significant relationship between the independent variable of flood occurrence and the dependent variables of a feeling of deprivation, feeling of security, social justice, and social support.

Rules and regulations of urban planning are one of the main components of urban settlements. This indicates that the more the implementation of these criteria is observed in the field of construction, the better the bed and body of urban settlements and consequently, citizens’ satisfaction increases. In the metropolises and cities of our country, Iran, the municipality is the primary reference for the application of urban planning rules and regulations. Therefore, the requirement of municipalities to issue building permits following urban planning criteria has a key role in forming the appropriate body and bed of urban neighborhoods and promoting citizen satisfaction. In this research, by dividing urban planning criteria into ten components: elevation criteria, access and passage criteria, Parking criteria, advance and balcony criteria, land use criteria, façade and urban landscape criteria, adaptation criteria for the disabled, sidewalk criteria, visibility and skylight criteria, area and occupancy criteria; citizens' satisfaction of regions 6, 8, and 14 of Isfahan was evaluated from the implementation of these criteria by a questionnaire in the form of a 5-point Likert scale (very low = 1, low = 2, medium = 3, high = 4, very high = 5). Using one-sample t-test, the results showed that according to the average limit of response 3, the rate of the significance of all variables is less than 0.05  and the level of citizens' satisfaction with the implementation of urban planning rules and regulations in target areas is lower than the normal and it is not in a desirable level.