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Article Type

Original Research

Authors

Khaliji   MA. (*1)






(*1) Department of Urban Planning, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

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Article History

Received:  February  26, 2020
Accepted:  May 14, 2020
ePublished:  October 1, 2021

BRIEF TEXT


Nowadays, the expansion of the deteriorated fabric is one of the serious problems in urban areas and has caused unsustainability in cities making them prone to unexpected events.

The slow pace of the deteriorated fabric's renovation against the rapid increase in their areas declined the life quality and residents' satisfaction that made people to leave the neighborhood [Andalibi & Ebrahimi, 2018]. Khoshgadam & Razaghi Asl (2017) presented some strategies to improve the environmental quality in process of renovation in Farahzad. Among the environmental quality components, functional factors, experiential factors, aesthetic factors, and environmental factors are the most important ones, respectively. Asadi et al. (2019) evaluated the resilience rate of the deteriorated fabric against the natural disasters in Karaj and showed this city is vulnerable to them. Zare et al. (2016) evaluated the vulnerability of the deteriorated fabrics in Marvdasht. According to their results, 32% of the deteriorated area is highly vulnerable, 31% is moderately vulnerable, and the reminding parts are insignificantly vulnerable.

This study aimed to evaluate the public urban areas in the deteriorated fabric of district 8 of Tabriz

This is an empirical study in terms of the purpose and descriptive-correlation in terms of the methodology.

The current research is carried out in the deteriorated fabric of district 8 of Tabriz metropolitan in 2019.

50 samples were chosen from the experts and elites in Tabriz municipality using the random sampling method

The questionnaire was used for data collection and SPSS 25 software was used for the statistical analysis.

The evaluation of the public areas in the deteriorated fabrics of district 8 in Tabriz metropolitan shows 12 out of 50 (24%), 11 out of 50 (22%), 23 out of 50 (46%), and 4 out of 50 (8%) of the people were satisfied, almost satisfied, dissatisfied, and very dissatisfied, respectively. Sense of belonging and collective memories have the highest average in the conceptual subset, while space identity has the lowest average. Public engagement and the third space have the highest and lowest average in the social subset. In the physical subset, physical fitness and permeability have the highest and lowest average, respectively. The mixture of various functions and activity has the highest average, while accessibility has the lowest average in the functional subset. There is a significant difference between various variables in the test of average in public deteriorated areas of district 8 of Tabriz. Third space, space identity, public engagement, accessibility, and physical fitness have no significant difference with the theoretical average (average 3), but all other variables were significantly different in level of 95% (Table 2). There is a positive and significant correlation among all features of the public areas (p<0.01, Table 3)18 variables of the research explain 98% of the public deteriorated areas variance (R^2=0.980). The effect of viability, collective memories, public engagement, cooperation, the mixture of the activities and functions, accessibility, and activities fitness on the public deteriorated areas are significant. Two variables of the mixture of the functions and activities and the fitness of the activities are more influential in the prediction of the dependent variable (Table 4)

The result of the current research is consistent with the results of Guzey (2009) in terms of the proposed measures for the renovation of Ankara deteriorated fabric, Khoshghadam & Razaghi Asl (2017) in terms of the suggested strategies to improve the environmental quality in process of the renovation of Farahzad deteriorated fabric, and Shahkarami (2016) in terms of prioritized zoning of the deteriorated fabrics of central parts of Arak. The given results are similar to the results of Asadi et al. (2019) on the evaluation of Karaj deteriorated fabric resilience against environmental disasters and Zare et al. (2016) research on the evaluation of the deteriorated fabric of Marvdasht.

It is suggested to analyze the problems, evaluate the capacities, rethink the plans and the programs, pay attention to the ignored components of the deteriorated fabrics in municipality budgeting, assess the socio-spacial consequences of the plans and the programs, and analyze the capacities to increase people's participation in the implementation of the programs. The managers should be supposed to implement renovation programs and allocate the proper space for commercial purposes and organize them functionally in the studied area.

The inaccurate response in the questionnaires is one of the most important problems in the current research. Time and budget limitations may influence the results and it is suggested to have a bigger statistical population and benefit the help of related organizations to gather more accurate information.

The social features are the most influential features in the deterioration of district 8 of Tabriz, while functional and conceptual features are the second and third. The mixture of the activity and function and activities fitness were of more importance in the prediction of the deterioration in district 8 of Tabriz.

We tend to thank the geographical research journal for their valuable guides.

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This article is carried out on personal expense of the author.

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