Ranking Urban Sustainability Levels and Explaining its Relation to Form and Spatial Structure Using FANP and Regression (Case study: 22 Regions of Tehran)

Document Type : Independent Research Articles

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1 Professor,, School of Civil- Architecture and Arts, Science and Research Branch, Islamic AZAD University, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Islamic AZAD University, Tehran South Branch, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Rapid urban development in recent decades has affected various dimensions of human life. The intensity of this impact, as well as the role of cities in the consumption of natural resources, the production of waste, and the concentration of human activities have made sustainable urban development a key element in the future, and therefore, efforts to understand urban sustainability and its various dimensions continue. With deductive exploration in the theoretical literature, the urban form can be categorized into components such as communication networks, public transportation systems, pedestrian and bicycle access, spatial structure, spatial distribution of activities, housing and settlement size, natural phenomena, and nonfunctional imagery. Due to the interdependence of the components of this concept with different dimensions of the city, its role in different aspects of sustainability will be undeniable to the extent that one of the most important sources of instability is the city's form. A critical review of the new frameworks for urban planning and redevelopment aimed at achieving sustainability points to a disagreement over the most desirable sustainable urban form. This problem can be solved only by the measurement of the relationship between sustainability indicators and urban form in different case samples with different resolving characteristics and their results can be generalized. This study, using inductive research method and ­FANP in Pyton, as well as GIS for analyzing spatial data and residents' questionnaires for quality indicators, aimed to evaluate the sustainability levels in the 22regions of Tehran first, and then classify the regions according to the form and spatial structure. Finally, the relationship between urban form and spatial structure with sustainability components in the scale of Tehran's regions was measured. Regression outputs indicate the direct influence of urban form and urban structure parameters on sustainability components in the regions of Tehran.

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Urban Structure and Function Studies
Volume 10, Issue 35
June 2023
Pages 34-55

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  • Receive Date: 14 August 2022
  • Revise Date: 15 November 2022
  • Accept Date: 18 June 2023

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