EVALUATING URBAN SERVICE ACCESSIBILITY IN THE MEDIUM SIZED CITIES OF IRAN

Sedigheh Lotfi () and Ayoub MANOUCHERI Miandoab ()
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Sedigheh Lotfi: University of Mazandaran, Mazandaran, Iran
Ayoub MANOUCHERI Miandoab: University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 2015, vol. 10, issue 4, 77-95

Abstract: It is a long tradition in urban planning that objective factors are used for study of urban life. However, this approach could be useful in first place to illustrate the level of resident's satisfaction and their environmental quality of life. But the reality is that concentrating only on the objective characteristics regardless to the subjective characters could be misleading because researches show that an objective quality necessarily does not mirror the subjective one. The present paper focuses on both objective and subjective criteria to measure quality of life in the city of Maragheh. Thus, regarding to the scarcity of research on smaller cities of Iran the research tries to examine urban accessibility to public space. The methodology of the research is based on descriptive-analytical methods which applied TOPSIS and FUZZY logic in GIS extension 9.3. The results revealed that the new parts of the city showed considerable differences by objective and subjective accessibility. Also, the findings of the study accentuated the importance of integrated objective-subjective dimensions of accessibility to proper understanding of urban quality of life to distribute main urban facilities by urban planners and designers.

Keywords: quality of access; objective- subjective aspect; public space; urban planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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