Sustainable Urban Development
Mohammad Akbari Riyabi; Farzaneh Soflae
Volume 3, Issue 4 , March 2023, , Pages 1-20
Abstract
Background and Aim: Sustainable development (SD) is an ideological solution to the current problems of developing cities moving toward a brilliant future where environmental resources are maintained for generations to come. Urbanism is expanding rapidly, exploitation of resources and waste production ...
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Background and Aim: Sustainable development (SD) is an ideological solution to the current problems of developing cities moving toward a brilliant future where environmental resources are maintained for generations to come. Urbanism is expanding rapidly, exploitation of resources and waste production increases, and urban sprawl is turning green lands into gray-lands. The city of Kazerun will face serious challenges of development, in the future; in such a situation, the question is: what kind of plans and what strategies can be presented for the future development of the city? And in what dimensions and with what answers does the sustainable development approach come? Sustainable development seems to provide assurances of future generations by providing clever strategies and thought-provoking development.Methods: The theoretical basis of this research is based on documentary-library studies for specifies the criteria. Research data related to the case study has been gathered through field observations, deep interviews, and referrals to developmental entities, and has been developed and analyzed in a Delphi technique by a SWOT table. The strategies extracted from the SWOT tables were evaluated with AHP logic and, using the Delphi reciprocating process. The score of each strategy was calculated in Expert Choice software.Findings and Conclusion: Findings show that observance of social justice, promotion of social welfare, economic prosperity, sustainable transportation methods, and also intelligent energy management in various social, economic and environmental dimensions due to City Development Strategic plan will be the most effective ways to deal with the challenge facing the development of the city of Kazerun.
Urban Planning
Mohammad Akbari Riyabi; Hossein Amir-Azodi
Volume 3, Issue 3 , December 2022, , Pages 48-70
Abstract
Context and purpose: Citizen Responsibility provides a platform for civic participation and through that, improving the social dimensions of urban development issues. Although citizen participation has been explored by many scientific researches, citizenship responsibility as the internal motivation ...
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Context and purpose: Citizen Responsibility provides a platform for civic participation and through that, improving the social dimensions of urban development issues. Although citizen participation has been explored by many scientific researches, citizenship responsibility as the internal motivation of citizens to participate is still not well known. This research tries to discover the indicators related to the responsibility of citizens and examine them depending on the two old and new urban contexts.Research method: This research chose a quantitative research method with a questionnaire in response to what variables have the greatest impact on the responsiveness of citizens and whether the residents of the old and new urban fabric show different levels of responsibility. Effective criteria were extracted based on theoretical studies and Delphi method by a number of university professors and completed in the form of a questionnaire including 24 questions among 300 people present in the old and new context of the city.Findings and conclusions: The findings show that the residents of the new context of Kazeroon show a significant difference in responsibility with 0.55 compared to the residents of the old context with 0.09 and variables such as the conscientiousness of citizens, their civic participation and the informativeness of the living environment have a significant effect. It will have an effect on the researched variable. As it is known, some of these variables are related to the environment and some are related to the psychological and personal characteristics of each citizen. Therefore, by modeling the different conditions of the new context, it is possible to provide the conditions for more responsibility of citizens in different urban contexts, at least physically.
