Evaluation of the factors affecting the desirability of urban appearance and landscape (Case study: Entrances to the city of Ardabil

Yazdani, Mohammad Hasan; Farzaneh Sadatzaranji, Zhila

Evaluation of the factors affecting the desirability of urban appearance and landscape (Case study: Entrances to the city of Ardabil

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Authors

Mohammad Hasan Yazdani ¹

Zhila Farzaneh sadatzaranji ²

¹ Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, university of mohaghegh ardabili,, Ardabil,Iran

² Phd of Geography and Urban Planning, university of mohaghegh ardabili,, Ardabil,Iran

Abstract

Background and Objective: City entrances are among the important elements of the city's appearance and landscape. But now we are witnessing cities that do not have any trace of an entrance space with the desirable characteristics that it should have. Ardabil is one of the historical cities with a prominent urban identity and history as one of the main tourist destinations. But despite its outstanding features in terms of cultural and historical burden and its prominent location, the city's entrances are among the most problematic urban spaces that are struggling with numerous and diverse disorders. The city's entrance should be a symbol of the city's face and personality. This can be achieved if effective indicators in this field are identified and the desired entrances are measured based on them. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the components that affect the desirability of the city's appearance and landscape of the city's entrances
Methodology: The present study is applied in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of its method, which is classified as a dependency study conducted by survey method. The statistical population of the study consists of 20 experts who were selected by snowball method. In order to evaluate the components affecting the desirability of urban landscape and cityscape, 4 components (physical, aesthetic, functional, and identity representation) were used. LISREL and SPSS software were also used to analyze the data.
Findings and Conclusion: The results of the one-sample T-test showed that all the components under study are effective factors of urban landscape desirability because the test results of all variables were positive and scored higher than the median (3). The significance level of the variables was also observed to be less than 0.05, so the research hypothesis was confirmed at a 95% level.Considering that all the components under study had a factor loading of more than 0.4, the results of the path coefficient (β) indicate positive relationships between the research variables. Also, the RMSEA coefficient was equal to (0.074) and the chi-square coefficient was (42.36), so it can be claimed that the research model shows a good and desirable fit.

Keywords

Landscape

City Entrance

LISREL

Ardabil City

Subjects

Urban Planning

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