Comparative assessing of housing dimensions selection in urban areas (A case study of zones 1 and 19 of Tehran)

Housing choice will always reflect the joint influences of preference, market conditions, regulations, availability, and internal and external personal factors such as lifestyle and social class. Identifying quantitative and qualitative dimensions of housing plays an important role in decision making in urban development programs, finding new housing and renovation projects. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the comparative aspects of housing selection in the one and 19 districts of Tehran. In fact, the research seeks to investigate which of the indicators in these two regions are more important in choosing housing to consider in urban planning and development processes. Research in terms of objective, applied and in terms of method is descriptive-analytic. The statistical population of the study is residents of one and 19 districts of Tehran. To increase the credibility of data, 200 questionnaires were randomly distributed among households. Data were collected through a questionnaire with 4 indicators (socio-cultural, economic, physical and environmental) and 50 items. Which was analyzed using the Friedman test, single sample T, Anova and T with two independent samples. According to the results, in 19, the economic dimension highest average (4.19) has earned and then there are physical, cultural and environmental indicators. In district one, the physical dimension with the mean of 3.92 has the highest average and then the economic, socio-cultural and environmental indicators were placed.