Developing Small Cities by Promoting Village to Town and its Effects on Quality of Life for the Local Residents

Mohamad Rezvani () and Hossain Mansourian

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2013, vol. 110, issue 1, 147-170

Abstract: In the past few years, developing small cities, by promoting villages to towns for instance, has been considered as one of the main policies for improving the Quality of Life(QoL) in the rural regions of Iran and with this aim in the last few decades, a large number of rural centers have been promoted to towns. The purpose of this research is to recognize the effects of promoting villages to towns on the improvement of the QoL of the locals by studying Subjective Indicators. The area of this research would be the towns of FIROUZABAD in the province of Lorestan and SAHEB in the province of Kurdistan which have been promoted from villages to towns in the past 10 years. The method of our study is descriptive-analytic and the required data was collected through controlled questionnaire. The results of the study indicate that in general, the promotion of villages to towns has led to significant improvement in the QoL in Firouzabad town and proportional improvement in the QoL in Saheb town. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

Keywords: Village; Town; Promotion of village to city; QoL; Firouzabad town; Saheb town (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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